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But to get there, he is going to need different ways of contracting with industry, he said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe must continue to transition quickly from an industrial age model of acquisition to an information age model,\u201d said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein during an Air Force Association breakfast. \u201cWe need to focus not on the truck but on the highway they ride on. Our first question in any acquisition program of the future is not going to be: What can it do? Our first question will be: How does it connect?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service is entrenched in a yearlong study on \u201cmulti-domain command and control,\u201d one of Goldfein\u2019s top priorities since he took over as the U.S. Air Force chief last year. While the service is still months away from being able to release its findings, Goldfein said his latest briefing on the effort has made clear that \u201cit really is about the data\u201d \u2014 especially the need for industry to be able to bring data together across multiple platforms built by multiple prime contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow do we build a contractual vehicle that makes information sharing profitable for industry?\u201d Goldfein asked, noting that in past command-and-control programs, defense contractors have put forth low-cost hardware linked to stovepiped, proprietary software that cannot share information with other systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2016\/09\/11\/new-air-force-chief-to-review-squadron-makeup-command-and-control\/\"><i>Air Force chief to review command and control, squadron makeup<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar \u2014 which Goldfein formerly commanded as head of U.S. Air Forces Central Command \u2014 the space cell and personnel recovery cells were located so close that employees could literally reach out and give each other a high-five. 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