{"id":45363,"date":"2020-09-14T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/14\/heres-what-accelerating-change-will-look-like-at-air-mobility-command\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:03:16","slug":"heres-what-accelerating-change-will-look-like-at-air-mobility-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/09\/14\/heres-what-accelerating-change-will-look-like-at-air-mobility-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what \u2018accelerating change\u2019 will look like at Air Mobility Command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Barely a week after Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost took the reins at Air Mobility Command<\/a>, her boss, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.<\/a>, outlined the Air Force\u2019s strategic approach as it prepares for a potential high-end fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his eight-page white paper, \u201cAccelerate Change or Lose,\u201d<\/a> released Aug. 31, Brown said the Air Force must adapt to a new reality in which the United States’ military dominance is no longer assured, and peer nations such as China and Russia are increasingly aggressive and emboldened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow\u2019s airmen are more likely to fight in highly contested environments, he said, and the Air Force \u201cmust accelerate the transition from the force we have to the force required for a future high-end fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Sept. 10 interview, Van Ovost outlined how the command \u2014 responsible for airlift, air refueling, air mobility support and aeromedical evacuation \u2014 is responding to that challenge. Building upon the work of her predecessor, Gen. Maryanne Miller<\/a>, \u201cwho did some really good work looking at operations across the continuum of conflict,” from uncontested to contested environments, \u201cwe\u2019re going to turn this headquarters and the mobility air forces toward the contested environment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her aim is to accelerate that progress across several areas, she said. The first is developing the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur mobility airmen, they\u2019re amazing. They are our competitive advantage,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re the ones with that competitive spirit. They\u2019re always thinking ahead of how can do things differently from a perspective of how they train differently, the capabilities that we provide them, and frankly, the concepts that we provide them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her second priority is to advance the command\u2019s warfighting capabilities, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur adversaries have adapted to our concepts,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are designing capabilities specifically to go after the advantages we have as a nation, one of which is projected joint force, which is what we do \u2014 our deployment and distribution capabilities reaching around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potential adversaries are \u201ctrying to contest us \u2026 even from our home bases here in the United States via multiple domains, including cyber.\u201d In response, AMC must come up with new concepts of operations, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to be thinking about competition all the way to the get go,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a fight to get to the fight as we deploy and maneuver the force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, AMC needs to advance its warfighting capabilities, \u201cspecifically, targeted capabilities for aircraft, to ensure that we can provide mission assurance for the entire joint force,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The command will be \u201cthinking a little bit outside of the current mission sets,\u201d she said, to focus on connecting the joint force and assuring U.S. forces can move freely, both at home and in the theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, Air Mobility Command commander, receives a mission briefing during her visit to the 349th Air Mobility Wing Headquarters, Travis Air Force Base, California, Sept. 1, 2020. Van Ovost took time to visit Air Force Reserve Command\u2019s largest wing during her first visit to Travis as AMC commander. (U.S. Air Force photo by Dennis S. Santarinala)\r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That includes ensuring secure command and control and being able to leverage advanced digital infrastructures, such as the advanced battle management system, \u201cto make more precise decisions on what it is we do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd we want to make those decisions at the speed of strategic relevance, right?\u201d she said. \u201cWe want to ensure that we have the connectivity, the interoperability and lethality \u2014 that we add those things to the joint force to ensure that we can do global reach and global power around the world, now and into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KC-46 will become one of the command\u2019s \u201cflagships,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause it has the kind of connectivity we\u2019re talking about, the kind of power we\u2019re talking about. \u2026 Where there\u2019s a fight, there\u2019s going to be an airlift airplane, an air refueling airplane up always \u2026 to help connect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So that\u2019s why I talk about developing our amazing airman and advanced warfighting capabilities in order for us to ensure that we are full spectrum ready and that we can generate the critical capacity necessary for the joint force in order to project the joint force and to ensure strategic deterrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the command\u2019s responsibility is to ensure strategic deterrence via airlift and air refueling in support of the nuclear mission, she said, so making sure those capabilities are secure is crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agents of change<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like other commands throughout the armed services, Air Mobility Command is dealing with COVID, race relations and the likelihood of flat or declining budgets. But those issues also provide opportunities to accelerate change, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the COVID pandemic could have had a detrimental effect on readiness, it\u2019s also possible \u201cto take advantage of what we learn there to accelerate our capabilities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, we\u2019ve done a lot of work with respect to virtual work \u2026 our ability to process data in different areas and to do it securely,” she said. \u201cHow do we take advantage of that, that level of change, for our future?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 25, George Floyd, a Black man, died at the hands of police in Minneapolis, igniting nationwide protests and spurring the military services to . Two days later, the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders released a report that said the Air Force has failed to fix longstanding racial differences in its military justice system<\/a> that led to black airmen being punished disproportionately more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the Air Force is encouraging discussions about diversity, race relations and equal opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re finding that the richness of diversity in our force is what\u2019s going to carry us through,” Van Ovost said. \u201cIf we can have those crucial conversations right now within our force, we know that we can increase the bonds of trust, such that we can \u2026 unchain our airmen to go do their very best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After several years of hefty budgets, military leaders are bracing for a reversal in light of the nationwide economic decline due to the pandemic. That accentuates the need to make the hard decisions needed to counter the Air Force\u2019s eroding competitive advantage over potential adversaries, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that we we use every taxpayer dollar to best effect, and what are those best effects? An effect is a total kill chain. It\u2019s the entire amount, from end to end, of how we project power and ensure strategic deterrence. So we want to make sure that we\u2019re doing our very best with the funds that the taxpayers bestow upon us to ensure the security of this nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese kinds of things, they\u2019ve all kind of come together at this time,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it allows us an opportunity to accelerate the change if we\u2019re willing to make some key decisions on that. So in Gen. Brown\u2019s \u2018accelerate change or lose,\u2019 we\u2019re looking at all roles and missions and how do we do them better, more effectively? Is there anything that we should be changing, writ large, in order to ensure that we can continue to provide that combat power for the Air Force that ensures we can compete, and in turn win, into the future?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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