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The Mitchell Institute hosts some of the most senior leaders and thought influencers of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and Department of Defense for an intimate hour-long discussion on the pressing issues of the hour as well as long-term strategic visions. The live sessions are attended by a broad swath of individuals from the Department of Defense, Capitol Hill, defense industry, and academia who influence defense policy and budget, and they receive wide press coverage.
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Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
The Mitchell Institute invites you to check out our live virtual Aerospace Nation event with Gen Jeffrey L. Harrigian, Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, U.S. Air Forces Africa and Allied Air Command and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre. With Russian aggression making regular headlines, security issues in the arctic continuing to develop, and instability in Africa continuing to pose challenges, Gen Harrigian and his team are balancing an incredibly difficult set of issues.
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Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
The Mitchell Institute invites you to watch our virtual Spacepower Forum event with Lt Gen John E. Shaw, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Space Command. Lt Gen Shaw joins us to discuss the development of space warfighting doctrine, what it means to have an AOR in space, and the future of the U.S. Space Command, among other topics. Gen Kevin P. Chilton, USAF (Ret.), moderates the discussion and facilitates audience Q&A. Gen Chilton is the Explorer Chair for Space Warfighting Studies at Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Research Center (MI-SPARC).
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Listen to the Mitchell Institute’s rollout for our policy paper: Affordable Mass: The Need for a Cost-Effective PGM Mix for Great Power Conflict by Col Mark Gunzinger (Ret), Director of Future Concepts and Capability Assessments. Maj Gen Jason R. Armagost, Director of Strategic Plans, Programs and Requirements, Air Force Global Strike Command joins Gunzinger to discuss why the Air Force must develop a “5th generation weapons inventory for a 5th generation force” that will maintain the nation’s precision strike advantage against America’s strategic competitors.
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
The Mitchell Institute invites you to listern to our virtual Spacepower Forum event with Lt Gen B. Chance Saltzman, Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations, Cyber, and Nuclear, United States Space Force. Lt Gen Saltzman joins us to discuss the challenges posed by adversary space developments, the continued development of Space Force into operations, and the service’s top priorities. General Kevin P. Chilton (Ret), Explorer Chair for Space Warfighting Studies at MI-SPARC, moderates the discussion and facilitates audience Q&A.
Friday Nov 19, 2021
Friday Nov 19, 2021
The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies invites you to check out the release of its new policy paper. Reimagining the MQ-9 Reaper, by Maj Gen Larry Stutzriem, USAF (Ret.), Director of Research, on Friday, November 19, 2021, at 10:00 AM EST. Gen Stutzriem will be joined for a panel discussion by Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at Hudson Institute, Todd Harrison, Director, Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Caitlin Lee, Associate Director, Acquisition and Technology Policy Center, RAND Corporation.
For the past two decades, Air Force remotely piloted aircraft, including the MQ-9 Reaper, operated in a narrow band of applications in regions like Afghanistan and Iraq. With the rise of peer competitors like China and Russia, threats posed by nuclear ambitious North Korea and Iran, and continuous challenges driven by non-state actors like ISIS and al Qaeda, the U.S. now faces an extremely broad set of threats—all are surging. However, the Air Force is stretched thin with an aircraft inventory that is both old and small, and resources ahead look strained. The Air Force must examine the potential for new uses of the MQ-9 across the threat spectrum. Whether helping protect bases, adding counter maritime capability, continuing to engage terrorist threats, or protecting the homeland, these aircraft are engines of innovation in the hands of Air Force’s most innovative airmen. While the Reaper will not survive over the most defended regions, it can perform critical missions to deter and check adversary actions. Bottom line, aircraft like the MQ-9 are available in plentiful numbers, are relatively new, enjoy low hourly operating costs, and afford a broad range of sensor-shooter capabilities without placing airmen at risk. Reimagining the Reaper in new ways can help fill capability and capacity gaps.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
The Mitchell Institute’s rollout for our newest forum paper: From EMD to Milestone C and Beyond: Common Issues that Affect Developmental Programs Transitioning into Production with report author Lt Gen Mark Shackelford, USAF (Ret) as well as Randall Walden, Director and Program Executive Officer for the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and Maj Gen Dwyer Dennis, USAF (Ret), Former Program Executive Officer for C3I and Networks.
DOD and Air Force leaders are unanimous that the United States must be able to deliver critical capabilities rapidly and at affordable costs to maintain deterrence in an era of intensifying great power competition. Unfortunately, past acquisition programs, and particularly aircraft development programs, have often failed to deliver desired capabilities on time and budget. In this timely study, Gen Shackelford examines eight aircraft development programs that encountered challenges at Milestone C, the critical transition period from development to production. He identifies several common issues and offers key insights which may aid future programs to adopt a realistic and proactive approach to delivering needed capabilities on budget and schedule.
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies invites you to listen to the release of its new Research Study, The Future Fighter Force Our Nation Requires: Building a Bridge, by Heather Penney, Senior Resident Fellow.
The U.S. Air Force’s fighter force is in crisis. After three decades of canceled, curtailed, and delayed investment in fighter aircraft modernization, the nation now finds itself with a small, fragile air superiority force. This is not just an Air Force problem, for no form of joint power is viable without control of the sky. Ships at sea, forces on the ground, space control centers, cyber facilities, logistics hubs, and more are simply not survivable when subject to high-intensity attacks from the sky.
Join us to better understand the options the Air Force has to modernize the fighter force in the near term, plus factors it should consider over the long run. There is no silver-bullet answer—this is a matter involving both capability and capacity, and any viable path forward requires a comprehensive set of investments.
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies invites you to listen to our Aerospace Nation where we discuss our latest research, Understanding American Voters’ Perceptions Regarding Strategic Nuclear Deterrence.
For as long as any of us can remember, the debate surrounding strategic nuclear deterrence has been incredibly predictable. The arms control community, on the one hand, and advocates for the nuclear triad, on the other, continue to wield their tried-and-true talking points. You could read a newspaper article from the early 1980s and see many of today’s most popular arguments in play almost word-for-word. However, the security environment, public priorities, and technology have evolved markedly.
Mitchell Institute launched this research effort in partnership with Seven Letter Insight to understand where public perceptions really stand regarding strategic nuclear deterrence far past what the headlines, op-eds, and political comments convey. Understanding public opinion is exceedingly important given the scale and scope of the triad modernization. As a democracy, America’s national security investment will fundamentally reflect what the public desires. The results we discovered were quite surprising. Please join as we share this new data, explain how the research was conducted, and discuss broader implications.
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Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
The Mitchell Institute invites you to listen to our Nuclear Deterrence & Missile Defense Forum event with Lt Gen Thomas A. Bussiere, Deputy Commander of United States Strategic Command. Gen Bussiere discusses the threat of Chinese and Russian Nuclear stockpiles, the U.S. nuclear modernization effort, the future of U.S. nuclear deterrence and other topics. Lt Gen (Ret.) David Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, moderates the discussion and facilitates audience Q&A.