The Air Force is now looking to scale the CBC2 capability from a tactical level up to an operational level.

“Candidly, I worry a lot about the cyber domain and the unknowns in the cyber domain," Gen. Glen VanHerck said.

The White House's new implementation plan is a follow-up to the administration's 2022 Arctic strategy.

Homeland defense will look “vastly different” in the future, according to the commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.

The work under the three contracts will support a variety of organizations across the Air and Space Forces.

The launches are continuing in the wake of several recent shoot downs of unidentified “objects” flying over North America, by U.S. fighter jets launching AIM-9X air-to-air missiles.

The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a potential threat to the safety of civilian air traffic, U.S. officials said.

A Pentagon official referenced the Crossbow system during a congressional hearing Thursday about the recent Chinese balloon incident.

Broadly, Defense Department officials are being tight-lipped at this point regarding key information about the platform.

“The balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground,”…