"Adapting Air and Space Forces for Great Power Competition: Sweeping Changes Ahead"
The Department of the Air Force and Space Force have announced a comprehensive plan to reoptimize their forces in response to the challenges of Great Power Competition. The plan includes 24 key decisions aimed at developing people, generating readiness, projecting power, and developing capabilities. These decisions involve consolidating force development functions, reorienting Air Combat Command, restructuring key processes related to aviation spares and weapons systems, and creating new commands and offices to drive modernization investments and strengthen support to nuclear forces.