The Mitchell Institute’s Aerospace Nation Podcast

Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum: David Trachtenberg

The Mitchell Institute invites you to check out our Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum event with David Trachtenberg, Vice President of the National Institute for Public Policy and Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. We discuss Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling, how to address growing Chinese nuclear stockpiles, and the future of nuclear deterrence.

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Aerospace Nation: Senior Leaders’ Perspective on War in Ukraine

The Mitchell Institute invites you to listen to our virtual Aerospace Nation event  for a discussion on evolving events in Ukraine, the performance of the Russian military, NATO, U.S. responses, and implications for the future, between Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, USAF (Ret.), the 17th Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations, and Lt Gen David A. Deptula, USAF (Ret.) Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.

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Aerospace Nation: Gen Kenneth S. Wilsbach

The Mitchell Institute invites you to listen to our Aerospace Nation event with Gen Kenneth S. Wilsbach, Commander of the Pacific Air Forces; Air Component Commander at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; and Executive Director of the Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff.

It is no secret that the Chinese threat is driving the Department of Defense strategic thinking, operational concepts, force sizing considerations, and associated technological investments. Join us as we speak with the lead Air Force commander responsible for helping meet today’s requirements, while also chart a vector to ensure airpower is best aligned to meeting future demands in the Pacific.

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Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum: Barry Pavel and Matthew Kroenig

The Mitchell Institute invites you to listen to our virtual Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum event with Barry Pavel, Senior Vice President and Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and Matthew Kroenig, Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. They join us to discuss implications new technologies are having upon nuclear deterrence and how the U.S. should adapt its operational concepts, strategies, and associated capabilities. Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.), Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, moderates the discussion and facilitates audience Q&A.

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Schriever Spacepower Forum: Audrey

The Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence (MI-SPACE) invites you to listen to our virtual Schriever Spacepower Forum event with Audrey Schaffer, Director for Space Policy at the National Security Council. Ms. Schaffer joins us to discuss the latest in U.S. space policy and strategy development from the National Security Council/White House perspective. Gen Kevin P. Chilton (Ret.), Explorer Chair at the Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence (MI-SPACE), moderates the discussion and facilitates audience Q&A.

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Aerospace Nation: Spectrum Warfare

The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) is an increasingly competitive domain. The joint force creates effects both in the EMS and through the EMS into all other warfighting domains. If we lose the fight in the EMS, we will lose the fight in all other domains. Our spectrum warfare panel represents all aspects of the Air Force’s EMS enterprise. They will cover a range of spectrum warfare concepts, plans, and requirements, including a report on the Air Force’s consolidation of EMS capabilities into the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing. Please listen to the discussion with Lt Gen Dave Deptula, USAF (Ret.), Dean of the Mitchell Institute, and his guests:

Maj Gen Daniel L. Simpson, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance,

Col William E. Young Jr., Commander of the 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing,

Maj Gen Ken Israel (Ret.), Former Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Airborne Reconnaissance

Ken Dworkin, (SES, Ret) Executive Advisor, Electromagnetic Combat – Booz Allen Hamilton

 

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Beyond Pixie Dust: A Framework for Understanding and Developing Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft

The Mitchell Institute invites you to listen to our rollout for our newest policy paper: Beyond Pixie Dust: A Framework for Understanding and Developing Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft by Heather Penney, Senior Resident Fellow, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, and Maj Christopher Olsen, USAF, with Foreword by Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.) They are joined by Jean-Charles Ledé, Commander’s Autonomy Technical Advisor at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). 

Nearly every vision, strategy, and flight plan the U.S. Air Force has released over the past decade identified next-generation unmanned aircraft, autonomy, and artificial intelligence as technologies that are critical to securing a decisive combat advantage in future battlespaces.  The Air Force is now developing new operational concepts for teaming manned fighters and bombers with autonomous UAVs—called manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T)—to perform strikes, counterair, electronic warfare, and other missions.

Developing this capability is challenging given the disconnect that often exists between warfighters and engineers. Warfighters have a deep understanding of all tasks in the battlespace that could apply different levels of autonomy in theory. Engineers conversely understand better how to develop the specific algorithms and technologies to enable autonomy, but not how they apply in real-world battlespace applications.

A framework that represents both the warfighter and the engineer perspectives would provide a structure and common understanding for these two communities in creating autonomous systems that deliver needed capabilities. The Air Force needs this framework to better understand autonomous technologies and help guide the enterprise toward future AI-empowered U.S. operations.

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Aerospace Nation: Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall

The Mitchell Institute invites you to watch a discussion with Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall, who expounds on his seven operational imperatives for the Department of the Air Force.
After decades focused on fighting terrorism, the Air Force and Space Force must be reconfigured to address a dramatically changed security environment. The threatening rise of China is of prime concern, while Russia continues to encroach on the interests of the United States and its allies. The course ahead requires clear lines of effort and a strong sense of urgency.

Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum: Modernizing the U.S. Nuclear Triad

The Mitchell Institute invites you to listen to a discussion with the RAND Corporation’s Lt Gen Frank Klotz, USAF (ret) and Dr. Alexandra Evans to discuss their recent report, Modernizing the U.S. Nuclear Triad, The Rationale for a New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. 

Retired Lt Gen Klotz and Dr Evans discuss with retired Lt Gen Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute how the Air Force should more strongly and publicly message:
• That our adversaries have not been asleep for the last 30 years and, through nuclear investments and modernization programs, now pose a real strategic risk to U.S. security.
• That recapitalization of the ICBM force can no longer be deferred without sacrificing performance and incurring additional costs.
• That we need the new capabilities that GBSD will provide to secure the nation’s global interests and defend the homeland.

Read the Report HERE! https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA1434-1.html

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Schriever Spacepower Forum: Gen John Raymond, CSO, USSF

The Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence (MI-SPACE) invites you to watch our virtual Schriever Spacepower Forum event with General John W. Raymond. Gen Raymond joins us to discuss what’s ahead for the service in 2022 and beyond. General (Ret.) Kevin P. Chilton, Explorer Chair for Space Warfighting Studies at MI-SPACE moderates the discussion and facilitates audience Q&A.