Well, good morning. This has to be the best job in the world that somehow i felt into when i looked across the room at our air force family is incredible. Believe me, the chinese would not like what were going to talk about and what were doing and what were here focused on defending this nation all of us together. Special thanks for everyone in the room attending. Of course our sponsors, our Defense Industry partners. When we can put Defense Industry in the same room with our war fighters and go as rapid as we can from requirements to delivering combat capability to the enemy, thats good. Also thanks to the media to be here. You wont get criticized sometimes more than you deserve. If we dont tell the story about the most lethal combat force in the world, were going to miss an opportunity to finish this nation. The media is directly involved here. The good news is this morning we have the leader of the most lethal conventional combat force in the world, general mike mobile holmes. Its incredible, when you think about whats going on across our combat air forces supported by air combat command around the world, were taking the fight to the enemy 24 7 and we should never ever forget our officers and enlisted personnel, warrior arab men who defend the station. Its about airmen. Its about platforms. We looking forward to hosting i hope everybody in the room at the cyber conference here in three weeks. Its focus just like i tried i think outline here, strengthening our war fighter and Industry Partnership to stay head of what might be the most competitive set of enemies with the most advanced technology weve ever asked our airmen to face. Its a challenge and we wont continue to deter enemies and defeat them decisively unless we have a strong war fighter and Industry Partnership or so thanks for being here. Again its an honor for doug and be certainly as a new guys supporting all of you and air force association and our staff to be with you. And so general holmes, 38 years plus doing this, supported by sarah. Theres a young man named stab sitting alert in his f16 this morning, its a Family Affair. Thanks for being with us, and leaves join me in welcoming general holmes. [applause] can you hear me okay . A little different today because im talking to what is usually kind of a home team it doesnt need a lot of explanation about air combat command but we also have the cspan audience with us this morning some going to stand over here next to the slide so we can do all this at the same time. Im happy to see everybody. Thanks for the invitation. Its good to see old friends and new friends, and thanks for taking the time to come up this morning. We did a session with the Defense Writers Group on monday. We here with you guys this morning. Ill leave this morning and well go talk to women and defense conference over at the convention center. Happy to do that. We have our expeditionary Senior Leaders out briefed today over at the pentagon which is what we bring last years commanders that were deployed after they had a chance to come home and regroup a little bit, bring them back together to get advice from them and see what we can do to better support the folks that are over there now. And that i have a session with some professional staffers this afternoon. So busy day. We try to fit in as much as we can when you come to town, and so lets go ahead and get started. I know this is a home team, but with the audience out there, we wear a patch on our shoulder that says People First Mission always in error, command. Its about airmen, our airmen operate platforms in the systems that make us a great air force. We could have a phd dissertation about Mission First people always, People First Mission always for our heritage goes back to kind of started by general creech and his disciples that if we get our airmen the tools and equipment and the right training, if we empower them with responsibility and authority for their mission, hold them account for that will be effective and so thats our first slide. Go ahead. You know those three on top. There should be a bill here quickly that it wont spend much time on except to say uniquely among the services the air force is organized in functional 4star commands. With air combat command and air Mobility Command and airSpace Command. The army has force calm. And it has Fleet Forces Command of that meets we do business a little bit differently. Slide please. And we start off with this mission statement. Ill let you read it. Ive been going back and force a couple of times with our commanders and others. The main thing is our job is organized trade and quit airmen to be presented to our Service Components all over the world for our airmen fight on the ground and in the air and in cyberspace, in the electromagnetic spectrum domain to control the airspace and cyberspace. No matter what happens as we go forward, our unified Space Command standing up against her at the end of the month come discussions about having a separate space force under the department of the air force or separately. There are a lot of terrestrial threats to our space forces so well have to have a Close Partnership with air combat command, however we end up organized with the space force. Antisatellite technology, launched from the ground, directed energy lunch on the ground, Cyber Attacks launched from the ground up in the air. Its going to take a Close Partnership among all elements to control the air space. Ive come to believe we are not going to be able to control the airspace without exerting some of them out of control on the electromagnetic spectrum, which cyber is a component of that. Slide please. Underneath air combat command we have numbered air forces which is the next echelon and commitment our comanche, chief gateway dave wade is sitting back you. Raise your hand. Hes waving at you. Dave came to us from ninth air force, one of our numbered air forces. Hes a career maintainer with a great ability to connect with airmen across our command. I wont dwell on this except to tell you that im going to come back to it a little bit. So we have numbered air forces that are Service Components, First Air Force as a component to northcom norad. 12 air force is a component to u. S. South. Air force central is a component to u. S. Central command. We support and project those capabilities out, 20foot air force as a component to your cybercom. Ill come back to the 25th air force provides Global Integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to all the socoms all around the world. As a look at our structure one of the things are interested in is how to invest prepare our air force and air combat command for the environment of competition, deterrence and if we have two, conflict with your adversaries. What needs to change in the way we organize, train and equip airmen as we move into this new world. Slide please. The last step is underneath our numbered air forces we have wings, thats the next level down for an air force organizational structure. We have wings, some centers, and everybody and air combat command can find themselves under this structure somewhere somehow. Orville talked about the Holmes Family are gluten holmes sitting alert across town at andrews today defended the National Capital region. In an f16. His big sister rebecca is a physicist that works at a National Laboratory atlas a la post, and one of their highest divisions and a lot of her work is one of our organizations under 25th that responsible for doing the nation monitoring of Nuclear Capabilities and events all over the world. So still a Family Affair for me and my family. Slide please. And were spread all over the world. Largely in the United States but a lot of the red dots across the middle east and then since air combat command through 25th air force provides the bulk of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for all of the Service Component commands, the distributed, grand systems out there around the world. A part of air combat command, the Weather Support is part of air combat command. We do that so we can federated and so that in time to search would result enterprise together to support the cocom thats in contact with the enemy. I visited our dgs in europe this summer. Theres a digest at langley, there are two Macon Pacifica one in korea and one in hawaii and one out it deal. All can Work Together to provide the intelligence that we need around the world. Slide please. We have three priorities we focus on for the last two and half years. We want to improve the readiness of our unit. We have a mandate to do that from our nation again as we enter into competition with peter adversaries. We think to do that with a focus on ready airmen, ready families and then ready weapon systems to put that altogether. I can tell you were making progress. We are grateful for the sustained spending that congress has invested in our readiness issues and were putting that money to good use. Over the last year as the money started to come to us really inn 19, in 18 with pot back about 4000 patent positions. So you have to go i i wouldve told you we were short about 4000 maintainers and air combat command. Now i can tell you were not sure maintainers. We are training young maintainers to be experienced maintainers but we have been in place. Because we laid the groundwork, then when the additional money in the budget in 19 golding, we were able to start applying that to air force Material Command to lay in the parts, to lay in the sustainment come to lead the extra dapl intervals, the things those miracle workers do to keep our aging fleet ready. As result of that we retained about 15 readiness across our air combat for. If you go back and look at history, and about 1978 and 19n out of another period of extended how use of our equipment which drove Lower Readiness and general creech was sitting in my chair at tactical air command, were able to gain about 12 a year for five or six years to get back to the readiness with what to get you and we made a a good start alog that same curve before the guys that were my commanders and mentors in that time. Who were in the room were going at a pretty much the same with you without it and getting results i think that linux with the methods that you taught us. And power are folks can give them authority and responsibility for the mission, hold them accountable for it, put them in competition with each other and off they go. We start to get results. Build the computer to fail in joint war fights this kind are part of the joint build leaders idea. We are training leaders outer wings down at the shop at white commander level and the superintendent level, we are running an approved Squadron Commander forced at air combat command which is part of our focus. We have had three years so we all our commanders through this course. Were doing some focused deeper education generating sorties and the way we Work Together to fly more to be able to train more. We are making progress there. Accepting risk, we rely on again miracle workers at air force Materiel Command in the Lifecycle Management center that keep asleep that averages 30 years old functional and capable and that strikes fear into the heart of the people that would line up against. And we rely on the acquisition system that his government, industry hair together to be able to equip us. What we need to do i think is go faster alternately. I dont have any concerns about our system except weve all got to learn to go faster in a world where our adversaries are going fast and we dont have the luxury anymore of setting a light at the 20th in the future that were going to provide a new capability. Weve got to focus on what can we do in the next two or three or five years. One of our parts of that is how do we work operational testing, we are kind of responsible for with developmental testing. To see how can overlap those and make those go faster. I can report you were making some progress there and artie as he takes over at air force Materiel Command his guys on air force test and are working with the one percenter and working on some proposals to take that to the next step. What can we do to get things done faster. Slide please. And theres a reason why. In 2008 i was Wing Commander at bagram and among several decision we made as a nation was we decide to cancel the f22 program there in 2008 and 2009, ecologically used to did the logic we used to did it was our adversaries would not be able to field systems that were competitive the things we fielded not until the end of the 2030s. We were wrong, right . Our adversaries are Fielding Systems already that pose. Level threats to things we put out in the field. And so well have to go faster. Notches in the platforms but as a chief says focus in on the highways that we try our trucks on. How do we connect, how do we learn, and we share, how do we get ready for the future thats going to rely increasingly on new capabilities, on Information Warfare, on electromagnetic spectrum, and ill talk a about that. Slide please. So i i showed you a picture ofr combat command in the number air force is, and why did they do that . As we go forward after some changes we want to drive in air combat command and ill talk to you about. Those Service Component numbered air forces would be out there on the left so guinness First Air Force to know red northcom, uscentcom. 12 air force we has to do two things pick we asked him to be a Service Component to southcom for about half of our conventional forces. We are working to see if we can put almost conventional forces under one of our number air force is and focus on its role in central and south america in support of u. S. Southcom. Our National Defense strategy asked us to concentrate on pure threats first, russia and china, then rogue states, iran and north korea, then violent extremists and, frankly, all of those things arent central and south america. Russia is in central and south america, and china is in central and south america. Iran is certainly an central south america. We want u. S. Southcom through our eric edelman to focus more on that role and so were proposing not a done deal in air force but were proposing to life our conventional fighter rescue committee control forces. Nice air force is also the home to a Standing JointTask Force Headquarters capability that we build so that we can take on if a cocom want to to that the air force can provide headquarters to correct the task in support of a cocom like the army is help to provide a core headquarters. We are building a capability at night air force, favorites and initial operational capability. They will eat and exercise a small this spring with u. S. European command thats kind of the next step on reaching a full operational capability. So that will be responsible for both force generation and presentation of our conventional forces, and then driving come working with the Wing Commanders to get the readiness thats required. Under the iw forces, this fall we will combine 24th and 25th air force. So. So 24th has been air force at cyber. 25th has been our Global Integrated isr numbered air force. We will put those together this fall, nomination package is working through the process. They will know exactly when the date will be attending that nomination process but we will put those together. That new numbered air force will have slide. Then we will continue to maintain our advanced training tactics and test function at the air force Worker Center out at dulles. Slide please. Walking back to this conventional forces and bringing them together, why do we want to do the . If we can align the up under a single command, we can take advantage of strike eagle wing at mount hope and Seymour Johnson being under one command and help them Work Together to achieve the readiness goals come rescue, we can pull those things together under one commander. We will be able to optimize their training and support and help them Work Together. It will be a Single Service force provided in those capabilities that works tasking and makes trade when so someonn go and substitute skins somebody who can. We will be able to advocate for all those forces and at one ig looks across all of those. Slide please. For Information Warfare, this is a big job were going to ask this new numbered air force commanded to do but its important we think to bring these capabilities together. This new numbered air force commander will be air force cyber. It will be our Service Component will have our Cyber Mission teams that work in that role. They will they were also committ force Cyber Air Force which is focus on transcom and stratcom under different headquarters led by the services that a focus on different parts of that cocom, that challenge. He will become the air force net ops commander. He will also run all the networks that the air force provides both unclassified and secret and that the higher classification levels. Hell be our service trip to logical Component Commander working the support and him and we provide to the National Security agency and the other things we do across the Intelligence Community. We will be pulling all that together supporting both u. S. Cyber, and air force cyber role and continuing to support the rest of the cocoms with Global Integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Weve all those things together, our belief is it will make us more effective across this information spectrum and, frankly, were still working about exactly how to define the we work definitions across the joint world. I get to me Information Warfare is this larger issue how do we take all the data that out there available to us and use tools to make that data work on behalf of war fighters. Information operations to me is a little bit more tailored of taking precise intelligence information, crafting a message that will have the right and back, finding the right audience to deliver to an thin having a means to deliver it to them to drive and effect. 24 air force has some game in that area and we think pulling the greater intelligence resources together with them will give them even more game in the world we are moving into. And if our challenge against. Adversaries is and were in competition, wed like it to stay in competition, right . Where any competition with adversaries that has military component of arduous days the level of Armed Conflict and the like to keep it there and so want to recast the competition on terms that are favorable for us and part of that is offering options for national decisionmakers that they can use in competition that are not necessarily escalate tory but are on the right level with things that our adversaries are doing so we can deter maligned activities at all levels from the Information Warfare level all the way up to major conflict. Our goal here is to provide new options, mo. Options for national decisionmakers. We will start off with the consolidated component with an integrated staff in a single Operation Centers that ties those things together. We can do that at ioc this fall. And then will continue to stretch and built on that Information Warfare capability would provide through service and cyber components. Will be able, were still have one command over all our Cyber Mission force teams and were going to move the 557 where the wing over and allied. Its been under 12 air force open you think what our weather wing does, takes information, gathered by centers all over the world, uses algorithms and people to work through it and it provides about their networks. It kind of 15 with our isr and Cyber Mission and we think it will have a better home there. Then we are looking at what should follow in organizational structure. We also expect this to take a lead role in revitalizing the planning, capability to dominate the electromagnetic spectrum. With your help we continue to field some outstanding systems that operate in the electromagnetic system, but in 15 years of combat focus on violent extremist down at the lowest tactical level we lost a little bit of our operational and Strategic Planning capability to bring all those things together to achieve operational and strategic effects. We think we need to rebuild that and then we also know that to be successful as we go forward with the systems we built that rely on computer power and rely on identifying the enemies sophisticated threats in the spectrum, to be able to counter them, we want to be able to reprogram faster and so we will be taking some steps you look at enterprise wheezed to do that. How do we take information on specific specifications that in any system is operating under in the electromagnetic domain, get it back to our reprogram as i get turned back out to our systems so we can counter the threat in near realtime. Our goal is to be able to do that at least with the and adl cycle as our starting cap and then work to get it faster and faster. And then with established together we looked at all the different Information WarfareTraining Programs that we have across 25th air force and intelligence insider Information Warfare, and theres the option we might pull this together under one Wing Commander to do that a little better and faster. Slide please. And then airmen, the high with cyclic them together and eventual platforms. I know im in a room with people built highways and platform so we need to come to this and this may be what you want to talk about but is a kind of some of the things that make the patient happen that we are working on. Im always going to start with the ones on the top. Joint, advanced Battle Management system. Its based on having multidomain information, gathering tools to gather information across multiple domains. Its kind of the bedrock of what we are doing. And then the ability to command and control that a new wave to take over date and make sense of it and get it back out. And then the ad junkie medication required to share that data in a contested in private. Those three things are going to be fundamental to everything we do get multidomain awareness, advanced Battle Management, and the agile key medications to link those together. Beyond that we are working through a transition with Headquarters Air force on how we plan and design for the future Headquarters Air force has taken a more central role in cutting that. We do the work to help them pick working today to work through the modernization of their Operation Center through a new protocol to try to do that faster. Weve moved or in the process of moving to open architecture and art distribute, grand system structure so we can make changes in realtime. We own that and we can work forward to it. Talked about multidimensional mapping control. This fall will do a joint experiment under the blessings of the vice chairman to go think about what is joint all the main commandandcontrol look like. We will be building a capability to experiment with that, and what you may know is we call the shuttle Operation Center and were going to be working to see how we can work with the other services to pull this together. When our young folks exercise and to talk about the future, the matter which service, which uniform they are wearing, they come back and say boss, we have to get how to do purple states to duplicate the effects we want in the time that we want across service boundaries. We will have to pull our commandandcontrol together to keep up with the enemy. Talk about ot and dt. To be ready for the advanced threats will have to make some improvements in our Operational Training infrastructure. That means both alive ranges that we train on and then increasingly the virtual ranges where we can do things we dont want people to watch is doing and so that we can go get rep after rep in a more costeffective way. Thinking about transit adversaries meet with you think our approach to Homeland Defense and where working with northcom on analysis of alternatives to think about what should our coverage before the northern approaches that been the central threats, surfaced that we presented to enemies oquendo to think about that broader across the two giant oceans and the fellow neighbors north and south to give her unique geographic position. How should we do that, how should we get our word is for Homeland Defense . How we commandandcontrol that when you reach out pretty far . How will we work with partners that sit at their astride those approaches, need to make sure with awareness of whats happening out there, if it how will we provide the criminal defense required to deter attacks on the United States. We continue i think to uniquely lead the department of defense in the integration of our reserve an error National Guard forces them with our activeduty forces and find ways to improve that across the multiple domains we are responsible for. We have air National Guard wings right now that have a group that flies are p. A. S, group the cyber and a group that does isr, all under one wing. How can we continue to take advantage of that talent that america has in parttime or fulltime role in bringing to bear on our problems. I talked about spectrum dominance wing. Dynamic force employment is the joint staffs approach to how to make the most effective use out of the forces we have to be a little less predictable and to be able to operate around the world facing global problems. We kind of default through if you are problems could be handled within region under a a cocom. When you think about peer adversaries that operate all around the world went to integrate that around the world and Dynamic Force employment is a way to make use of all of the forces across our joint force and use them in an unpredictable manner without leaving them out so long that were not able to drink and do the things that will take force to regain our roles. Slide please. Why do do all this in air combat command . This is a picture in 2003 of the second invasion of iraq. This is a team of soldiers that are on the march toward baghdad. Theyve been on the road for a couple days. Theyre are pretty worn out. Its time to stop and take a rest. You can tell by the way theyve arranged their equipment what threat there were devout. They put their vehicles in a circle to protect them from small arms fire. Theyve dug some shallow sleeping positions to break them from shrapnel from mortars if youre attacked by a ground force. The are not worried about air attack or their vehicles would be distributed and they would be arranged in a different fashion. They know that already theres a satellite constellation operated by the air force that will watch their flight. They know theres an rpa above watching closely anybody who is presently. They know if they can come the entire weight of u. S. Air force will be brought in to look after the period this is what we wanted to look like. Slide please. And again for my mentors and bosses in the crowd, this is the first invasion of pushing a rack out of kuwait, this is what happens to a nation whose Ground Forces are not protected, dont control the airspace and cybercom want to make sure this never happens to an american or an allied ground force. Thats our sacred duty in air combat command and this is why we work with you to do the things that we do to ensure that will have this ability as as ao forward. Slide please. So thanks for giving me a minute to talk you through what were up to and where were going, ad id be happy to take some questions. [inaudible] [inaudible] on tuesday, he said that you are looking at the longerterm options for addressing the low observability maintenance facilities for the f22. I was wondering if you could expound upon that of what you considering them what is wrong with them right now . At a considering moving them to perhaps Forward Deployed locations . We talked a little bit monday. The question was hey, what impact does the hurricane have on the ridges of the f22. Our response was we relocated the flying Training Unit to egeland and they are back producing students that we need to fly the f22. The operational squadron, the 95th we dispersed their airplanes and we were able to take the operational f22 squadrons and plus them up to 24 aside aircraft which we think is the right number to be able to train at the tempo we need to to produce Mission Ready pilots. We saw good results from the period one of the factors that will take us longer to work through is kind of reconstituting the low observable maintenance capability. The base at kindle are operating again and egeland is using their low observable base to do some of the work under airplanes. They are flying back and forth and doing that work. We also have announced that the longterm health of the fpu at langley is the preferred alternative for that and that means we are networking to the Environment Impact statement and look at what it will take to get a third down. Likely was designed for that but when we decide to curtail the program we didnt build enough low observable maintenance capacity for three squadrons. As we move that fpu and will address the low observable maintenance facilities requirements at langley. In the meantime were using a facility that are out there in industry and were taking a a lk at some of the facilities that we built at holloman and what we do in the shortterm make use of all of the philly facilities we have to start buying back the sas, every monitor that as part of the Mission Capable status of the f22. We are looking for ways to build to rebuild the capacity that we lost as we worked through. As far as building them down range, we have ways to do it down range in expeditionary fashion. Its not as effective or as sufficient as doing in our big o station facilities but we will continue to keep doing that the same way we have been doing it. Industry . Nobody. Maintenance . Right there. Thank you for your presentation. Im with breaking defense but you mentioned doing operations in the competition phase and Information Warfare. Can you explain to me what your legal mandate is there by the ic . It seems to me theres some fairly gray legal issues. There certainly are policy and legal issues and any authority we have to do that comes down from the president , either through the secretary of defense or through the nsa, and then down to the units that do it in different places. This year we received some authorities from 24th air force to operate in that national space, but youre right, all the authorities, we will not run an air force independent Information Warfare campaign. We will provide capabilities that will be operated either by the Intelligence Community or by cocoms under the direction of the president and secretary defense. But our job is to build capabilities that they can choose from then to direct and use. Thank you. David, air international. In the press recently we saw a lunch of a groundlaunchd Cruise Missiles. Is the air force looking to get back into that business and if not, what d. C. The integration of this in acc future standoff offensive capabilities. You unit, i think i would probably know the saying that you do about that test from what i saw reported in the press. Added it will have anything to say about it beyond that. Air combat command will work with the department of defense to think about the right mix, longrange and short range and standoff and penetrating options for our forces. And im not really in the loop on that test or the National Policy issues that would go with the sighting ever going to field a ground launch Cruise Missile or not. [inaudible] theres a mic, jack, so they can hear you on television. Thank you very much for the mic. I know you would talk to congressional staffers this afternoon. Can you share some of your major soundbites on the bible for that as you try to get them to restore your funding. So were happy with the recognition in the department of defense and in general and congress, like those slides assured at the end of the presentation will join forth depend on our ability to be able to control and export the air and space and the Cyber Capabilities that help us do that. As we go forward in the future we to think about whats next. As the work were doing for next Generation Air dominance starts with those three overreaching capabilities like as a multidomain awareness, advanced by management, and Agile Communications it will take to communicate with any system that we might go after. And then we are pursuing the research and the Risk Reduction to say whats next year how will we maintain that op dominus to the air those guys be pulled in circle the go forward in the future. Were working with congress to make sure we have the funding to do that. When we find the defense budget, its kind of a zerosum game that has a fit under a top line and work through this process with the committees. If they move money into a place that they think theres a need to have to find a place to take it from. We will work through to try to let Congress Know how were spending that money and why we think its important to spend it and what the benefit is that we can get from spending that money on schedule that we later. Its what we do in every program across the department. Its art of the process as we work through it. We appreciate the role they play in it and we look forward to the chance to continue to explain what were doing and trying to accomplish. [inaudible] good morning, general. General milley recently published on defense. Gov some ideas that he called modern warfare. Among those were you not going to win a war without submitting engagement of the us army under not going to win a war from afar, which i presume means by air. Have you detected those ideas filtering into the indias development, the budget process nds and do personally agree . John, i think everything were going to do is built on a partnership across the joint force and then based on exactly where you are and what youre doing its type with the right tools together to do that. So i dont think i know a scenario that we wont need capabilities provided by the u. S. Army to be able to do it. And then there are scenarios like combined arms continental multidomain operations and work for on the european continent where the army is going to play central role and air combat command happy to working together closely and now air combat command and Army Futures Command have been working together closely to think about how we will do that together on the modern battlefields. The army is bringing capabilities that help us counter integrated air defenses. We are bringing capabilities that help counter longrange artillery systems that are threat to the army. So that the Great Partnership there. I really dont see any value in trying to drive a wedge between what we are doing. We are going to other capabilities that we all provided as we go forward at a think with a great working relationship and a Great Partnership with the army leaders that are thinking about how to do this in the future. [inaudible] tell us about yourself. [laughing] asked general. Appreciate it. John paul with the air force fellows. A few of us were talking about and agree with any to bring the future batch of the chautauqua earlier. Could you talk about what is being done currently in changing and improving our acquisition timelines can whats been done with acquisition funding and also legislation to go ahead and cut that from the 15 years that into the fiveyear time. You spoke of . Doctor roper or Jenna Richardson or general punch and the teams are more expert on it than i am. But i can tell you that work is being done. To take avenge the new authorities and Congress Gave us in whatever was like like to talk on the 804 authorities fellows go with prototypes, compare this to each other, decide they meet our war fighter requirement and go forward with that doing all the milestones integration process. Doctor roper has set a goal of trying to cut 100 years out of acquisition by adding up what you say the different programs and think were making Good Progress there. Part of the other approach to it is recognizing as ive been told by industry leaders, you guys still think your Hardware Company but youre really a Software Company that operates hardware with it. Then how do we change the way we acquire things to match up with the way we acquire software in the commercial world and maintain it and sustain it. Were making some progress there. Thats going to take a partnership as well to think about how going to do that in new ways. Those are the two primary things that i see progress in. Just across the whole enterprise sense of urgency that we have to do things faster. Sometimes that means we make decisions faster that were going to cancel the program because at the end of comparing 804 prototypes, it doesnt meet their employment we need that we found that out faster and were ready to go look at it and go to next thing to try to figure it out. Those are the things that i see happening in our acquisition community. Valerie with defense news. A couple days ago boeing got a contract to continue reading we need the a10. In the past about a year ago you and other air force leaders express some reluctance to treat that contract as a followup and just give it to boeing because there were some concerns about costs and about their ability to get supplies in my and deliver on time. So has boeing resolve those issues with its suppliers at this point . And are you getting a better deal with this new contract . Youre talking to a user, not an acquirer. Im happy to know that weve worked the contract solution to rewing the remaining 810. Theres been a couple articles and less the last weeks of not completing the first contract while weve been working the process to get another one. My interest is in fighting somebody that can build those wings and get the other in a costeffective process. I have confidence that my partners in the hq enterprise that work through that and we will have partnership as we go forward with a cute and boeing to get those airplanes. Beyond that i think you should probably talk to a queue or boeing. When youre discussing your organization, one thing that can come up is the guard and the reserve, high up on integrating the, especially when we moved to the hightech. 2 out of industry. Our guard and reserve elements are really organic across air combat command. As we align our activeduty conventional light a rescue and command and control under nice air force, our plan is to align the corresponding guard units. Ninth air force. Ive talked about giving us a reserve and guard deputy to come be a part of that organization to help us further integration. I think our future is increasing integration at the unit level i think is with you new capabilities it will, i say always, at least almost also be built on an association of the active and guard or active and reserve. At the difficulty of length of the guard winks underneath one of these is what i talked about, a single wing in the Tennessee AirNational Guard has our p. A. S that are lined up through the forests cyber aspects that are working through 24th and a group working through 25th what he put that wing in the structure . The answer is we continue to associate and stay in a Close Partnership across all those places. We are not walking from our associations with the guard and reserve. We are fortunate in the things we do that our nation has a really strong bench of talent that does work like what we do in the commercial world, whether thats flying and fixing airplanes or whether thats working in i. T. Or cyber industry, or all those capabilities were able to bring to bear and using the talent that we have are an important part of what we do. Im a fan of finding even new and better ways to allow americans to participate in their defense in whatever way they can. We have an air auxiliary in the Civil Air Patrol that is also a light under air combat command. A great opportunity for americans from across the country to be associate with the defense of the nation i working in the Civil Air Patrol. We have opportunities both through afa with the things that we do and cyber challenge cyber patriot, Civil Air Patrol is looking at moving into some of those capabilities. Id like to see a world where we have an auxiliary the lets americans, anticipate insider activities and at the things we do within their time and within what they want to commit to bring the expertise that any. They need. Right now weve got 100 activeduty commitment. We have parttime or fulltime commitment in the guard and the reserve that pretty much meet the same requirement. What kind they do to let people come in and kind of keep their inner ring and keep their hair and the other things but still find a way to participate. Ear ring. Tadpoles, i i north america, probably more importantly father, proud father of two airmen. I question is, any thoughts for discussion use in companion traders for f35, f22 fleet to help readiness . We publish an article thank you. We published an article in war on the rocks in one of the websites where people share information on how we might use that tx in a different way as we achieve, ever start to receive that new trainer that were we y happy to be getting to be able to produce experience Fighter Pilot study. We are looking at ways we can use the things that we have in different ways. Can we partner it with the things the to produce a candidate pilot faster and better to been taken and experience them faster and better into the combat air forces. Were looking at ways to do that. As far as the campaign in training, thats not exactly what weve laid out although in our vision to might be some people who instruct in both. What were trying to do is see if we can use a costeffective then you to move training from the advanced training that happens in an expensive f22 or f35 to bring some of that training down into a vehicle that has avionics that may be a constructive look kind of the same so that you can train the same skill set and people earlier in their career, and ultimately be able to produce them faster. And we think maybe reduce the time it takes for them to check out and become a wingman or a flight leader instructor. That article is out there on war on the rocks that would give you a more indepth look into it. [inaudible] general holmes, thanks for the presentation and thanks for the service come into service for you and your family. Bo has f35s on edit f35 sunil and his family, too, so thanks for that. If you would, could you qualify the sentry series comments. Doctor roper seems to be falling on and recently there was an rpa, the rpa business pile on. It may be helpful. Sure. So you have heard us talk about the sentry series fighter Acquisition Program and ill be careful because again some my mentors may have lived through that timeframe. But the idea is that when we are in competition with great powers we fielded airplane traveled and we moved on to the next thing when it was time to do it. Ive talked to guys that were flying straight wing at 84. They got brandnew we figured that was better and we add it to the airplane and we continuously pass things that kept bringing the new capabilities out there. The idea is how do we move from a 20 Year Development program that weve done with the f22 and f35 to a shorter Development Program where we use 804 804 authorities. We say what capabilities do we have now that at a trl and mrl, that means there at a manufacturing level and the Technology Level at the ready to go. Peer to another country about as you add into the atlantic what do have 20 to go right now that we could put the pieces together come have capability, put out there maybe in 804 process can see if its better than what we have now and if it is start buying them. Then come back a year later as a whats ready now . Is that better than what we were by . No, then lets keep buying what we were. Yes, then lets switch to that and do that. We know this is a change in business models. We know that our minimum quantity kind of things to make this something that we can field the new capabilities and allow our Defense Companies to make a profit after we know theres a gushy asian that has to happen as we go forward, but if were going to do that a lot of the cost figures into our airplanes is building airplanes that are made to last 8000, 10,000, 15,000 flying hours. And if we change to a world where were going to rotate and pass through capabilities, are the ways we can find less Expensive Solutions by not necessarily engineering team. One of the test were doing is looking at what we call lowcost achievable airplanes, which is a negotiation on how good that the weapons system have to be to give you a capability against the enemy but then what can you do to make that she peer if you get to a lowcost unmanned airplane that you keep in the box post of the time, you pull out a red flag twice you to make sure that it works and you and i would integrate it into capabilities, it does need 8000 Hours Service life. Its when you get shot down in four or 500 anyway, and so how might we build the airplane different, might we as industrial turbine instead of a jet engine, 8000 hours, we might do different structural things. We might think about in a different way. So theres a lot the pieces to it but the central idea is just going faster. When us talk about this two or three years ago with a think tank panel and talk about this, one of the guy said of course because youre back in competition. So youre back in a world where your enemy is building new things that are incrementally better. An example would be china working through with e. J. 20 and the pl 15, the missile that goes with it. To try to counter the advantage that we cut in the air to air environment. What we do incrementally to go counter that are returned the advantage and how can we Work Together across this partnership to find a way to ship back to that model. Thats what were talking about while we pay some of my to the development that produced a lot of really good airplanes in a short time that made a difference, that we think in being able to deter conflict with russia and kind of ending the cold war conflict with the soviet union. Good morning sir. From embassy of france. I can tell from a great presentation that youre working hard on [inaudible] you convene you are going faster. Can you speak about what you are putting forward for interoperability which is the third axis of the nds . No, i think that is certainly important on all that we do and this is an issue that often comes up when were operating around the world. Its examples, one end of the spectrum are the partner presses were used to build the f35 so that we partnered with some of our International Allies with a participate in the development of the aircraft. They are in on all the security details of how we put it together and so that makes interoperability not easy but less challenging as a go forward. And then with great partners like france with its own Industrial Base that chooses to stay separate and then how do we poulos together, working together in the gulf or Work Together for the defense of europe and thats more of a challenge because were not just protecting our National Secrets for protecting proprietary information that leads to profit for the companies in our country. That has been a challenge, particularly with the u. S. And france, invaluable parker to all that we are doing in the middle east, and particularly and africa which may not be well understood as france longterm relationships and knowledge of the africa continent and the capabilities that free they bring to project great power there. Classification is a hurdle and whole lot of things that we do. We Work Together across the to from all the time to try to drive those classification problems down, but yet its a policy issue that we cant always settle uniform to uniform and the way we would like to. We will continue to work it, continue to advocate for the access that are part of the to operate alongside us. And were going to work as an industry at a National Policy part of that as well. But youre right, it has to be figured into everything. [inaudible] you gave us a great outline of [inaudible] so, a a tshirt. Not just a tshirt. [laughing] this is the first version of a new afa shirt. Airmen for life. Join the fight. We are in a fight for the future of our nation. So please and thank you for being in the fight. Thank you for giving us direction. God bless you. [applause] ill take this opportunity really quick to decide when secular den holmes was commissioned, a friend of her family was a long time afa member and had been in was the president of the tennessee chapter at one point back, gave me a membership in the air force association. After paying the yearly dues a couple of times, i turned it into a life membership and in the \80{l1}s{l0}\80{l1}s{l0} that cost me 25 a year or three years to turn it into a life membership which turned out to be a pretty good deal. [laughing] thirtyeight years later. So thanks very much, and we will wear this with pride. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] and our live coverage will continue this morning as the defense departments Advisory Committee onua