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The U.S. Air Force and Navy have agreed to develop a joint combat network that will enable coordinated operations between the service branches’ aircraft as well as the Navy’s vessels, USNI News reported Wednesday.

Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said the service plans to use a chunk of its fiscal 2021 budget to establish the digital foundation, Federal News Network reported Wednesday.

A reusable space plane that Boeing built for the U.S. Air Force landed Sunday, Oct. 27, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center landing facility in Florida after spending 780 days in orbit to carry out experiments, the Air Force reported.

Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, formerly commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, assumed leadership of a newly created information warfare-focused numbered air force on Friday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, the Air Force reported.

Gen. David Goldfein, chief of staff at the U.S. Air Force, unveiled the service branch's plans to incorporate networked multi-domain capabilities.

The U.S. Air Force is planning to reprogram around $30 billion in funds for efforts involving space and multidomain operations, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

Gen. David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, said the U.S. military must shift its hardware-focused purchasing approach to one that emphasizes more on software, he wrote in a commentary posted Friday on Defense News.

The U.S. Air Force has released a strategy outlining measures on how to leverage artificial intelligence in order to carry out missions in the 21st century, the Air Force website reported Thursday.

General David Goldfein, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, discussed the hypersonic weapons program and sixth-generation combat aircraft in an interview Friday with National Defense Magazine. According to Gen. Goldfein, the Air Force is making progress on fielding an operational hypersonic weapon, a weapon that moves at five times the speed of sound, because of the “804 authorities,” an interim approach approved by the U.S. Congress which supports rapid prototyping and rapid fielding of technology within five years of approval. 

Gen. David Goldfein, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, said adopting a multi-domain operations approach that connects air, ground, maritime, space, information and cyber assets in an integrated system to detect and counter threats “will change the character of modern warfare,” the Air Force reported Thursday.