air force secretary heather wilson spoke at the annual conference hosted by the air force association[applause] ♪ [applause] >> doing something for a purpose . we gather here as airmen deeply committed to the defense of our country. thank you for your continued service to us all and, of course, larry spencer, thank you for your leadership of afa. it has been quite a year since the last afa conference. i want to publicly thank our en, chief goldstein and his wife, dawn. thank you for your good advice, your sense of purpose and sense of humor and to our master chief of the air force, chief wright and his wife, tanya, this guy keeps fixing things and you're a role model for all of us, chief, but i'm not going to be volunteering to be tased. [laughter] >> doing something for a purpose. sometimes, it's hard to see the sweep of history when we're just trying to get today's work done, which is why it's important to come together from time to time, like this, to take stock of where we are so that we can reaffirm where we need to go. 100 years ago in the early morning of september 26, 1989, fo

to be air men. bless you all and god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] >> happy birthday to my fellow airmen. i am director of the

air force to transform the united states air force. gentlemen, these except our great thanks for your presence here today. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> air force secretary heather wilson addressed the air force association conference on monday. we wish you as much of her remarks as a cat until today's session present at 1 p.m. eastern. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> doing something for a purpose. we gather here as ehrman deeply committed to the defense of our country with -- thank you for your continued service to us all. and, of course, larry spencer, thank you for your leadership of afa. it's been quite a year since the last afa conference, and for that i want to publicly thank my wing man, our chief of staff david goldstein and his wife. thank you for your good advice, your sense of purpose and your wonderful sense of humor. and to our chief master sergeant of the air force kaleth wright and his wife. this guy just keeps fixing things. you are a role model for us all, chief, but i'm not going to volunteer to be tased. [laughing] doing something for a purpo

air force. so that means we know that we are going to have to produce more pilots. we are going to work and do all the things that we can that general short and his team have identified and that we fully support in air combat command and are working hard to help, but we also know that there is a production piece to this. general quast and his team on trying to find ways to produce not just pilots easier, better, cheaper, but to produce better pilots, better air crew members with new training methods are going to play a role there and the air force, you know, we agree with the captain that we want to look out and encourage people all over america to pursue a career as aviators in the air force and not just people that might look like me while we're sitting up here. and we have a problem there. if you look at the composition of our pilot squadrons, the composition of our fighter squadrons they are still overwhelmingly white and male. and we talk about some of the reasons why, we could have a long

air force in europe, u.s. africa allied air command. general john raymond, commander air force space command. timothy ray, and lieutenant general brad webb, commander air force special operations command. the rules of engagement for this session are as follows. each speaker will make a presentation and then we'll take questions from the audience if there is time. believe it or not, we're going to be 21st century here and you can text your questions in to a number that should be up on the screen at some point. with that, let me give the floor to general walters and let him start. >> thanks, secretary peters. and behalf of all of us certainly for this panel, we want to thank you for your service as our secretary, undersecretary and for that moment for this very second for all you've done for our nation. it's great to be back in your company. albeit it's in washington d.c. and i must say to this crowd prefer being 4700 miles away in central europe. i want to pass a shout out to our wing commanders and chiefs that represent the wings. where

force in air force history. how about that? [applause] okay. thank you very actually welcome to our last day. this is really been great and so we really appreciate you all being here and we really have a great panel for you today, essentially a lot of the leadership of the air force, most of the leadership of the air force, , and which was exciting today is we saved the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all the money we had until the end and we went out and hired the most expensive, most talented emcee we could find, so general goldfein is going to emcee this morning picks on just going to kick this thing off but good morning. welcome to today and we have some fantastic speakers for you. really looking forward to it. there are several commanders here that you are all familiar with, so let me introduce them very quickly. we have lieutenant general scobee, lieutenant general rice, lieutenant general mcmurray, lieutenant general kwast, lieutenant john webb, chief wright -- get a simcox no, he's not. o

the air force has declined. when they went to war in the persian gulf and i was on the national security council's staff and never have come home. never came home. so 27 straight years of combat operations with the united states air forces engaged. they had 134 fighter squad rons and today we have 55. the pace of operations is one of the things that is driving the difficulty of retention of a crew. we are burning out our people. we took the first piece of the study and the interim report to congress. we promised them in the august/september time frame and that looks up. that study looks at what those national defense strategy asks us to do and how we best do it with war gaming and model simulation and what would that general mix of forces be? that was the first piece of it. we decided to share that not only with the congress and more publicly last week, it is not intended to influence the budget. it is it a long- term view and how the threat is changing. so that the air force can provide a sense of where we thin

but the air forces well on the way to do its part and build air men.ou just have to use the resources we have available and a much better question and the reason that i wanted to spend time on the topic with you today is, what are you doing to build a more resilient air men? yes, i am talking to you. don't look at your neighbor or super visor or spouse, you. sp. you. so too often, we talk about when we talk about the challenges we face, the channllenges our children face, the challenges our teammates face. the challenges or friends face. we always begin with this description of the world or this description of the air force. i'm doing so bad, i'm in this situation, and if the air force cared more about its people, if we had more resources, if there was a better program, if i had a better supervisor. we think about all the things that we believe have contributed to our situations, and we overlook and, frankly, sometimes we ignore what we have done to contribute to our own condition. so before we go any further, let's be clear, you are the place you need

forces.ve for air we have the navy air force, the air force, the army air force, and the navy's army air force, marine aviation. why do we have all of this? they are buying similar platforms, but they are buying them separately. a lot of redundancy, but it is by design. thesegood they are trying efficiency initiatives, but experience says you cannot bank on the savings. ,ne of the things they said with this budget released over the past year, j gibson was on the record, the chief management officer, saying they were billion in $46 efficiency savings over five years. that is baked into their budget. they are assuming that. $46hey cannot generate billion in efficiency savings, they have to come back and ask for that more in funding, or they have to find $46 billion in cuts. ,hat was an ambitious target and they said target for fy 18 and fy 19, which they are not close to meeting -- but the ander issue for 2020 beyond, they assumed a lot of efficiencies in the top line. you have to come back and ask for more or they will make cuts internally. they will cut meat instead of fat if they ca

on behalf of the air force association, welcome to our 2018 air, space, and cyb cyber conference. the air force has come a long way over the last 71 years. our air force represents a young and diverse military service whose culture is defined by strength of character and constant evolution. as i am confident anyone who has ever served in a position of air force command or leadership will agree, nothing and absolutely nothing matters if our airmen and their families aren't supported and cared for in a way that recognizes them as the most important element of our air force. we're excited to bring you this air force senior leader town hall meeting focusing on some of the important issues faced by our airmen and their families. asa is proud to present this excellent opportunity for interaction with the senior leadership of the air force and their amazing spouses. on stage, we have chief master sergeant of the air force khalid wright and his wife tanya. chief of staff of the air force, general david goldstein and his wife dawn. and secretary of the air force, heather wilson, and her hu

air force. here is the concept. we go put out some of our hardest problems that will require exceptional innovation and put out the solicitation and we will take in what amount to white papers from anyone. small business is primarily. we do a very quick review and invite leaders of those companies to come and make their pitch. they make it directly to the program executive office and program management. the idea is that it it is a good idea -- if they have a good technical solution that is worth supporting even with small amounts of money, with a one-page contract, they will walk out with a contract and funds that day. that is the kind of speed of business that small business really needs to be able to work with a large entity like the u.s. air force. we are committed to moving forward with those kinds of arrangements. the third area they would highlight is the way that we are trying to buy things faster and smarter and it has to do with prototyping and experimentation. in 2016 and 2017, the congress put new provisi

surface to air missiles. after the strike these really jets began who began patrolling in the area seventy kilometers west of the syrian coast. and they deployed electronic countermeasures and were probably preparing for another strike at twenty one fifty nine one of the israeli jets started maneuvering towards the syrian coast approaching the aleutian aisle twenty that was making its approach for landing. the syrian air defense units considered its manoora to be another attack by these really air force these are really pilots certainly knew that the aleutian twenty has a much larger reader a cross section than after sixteen and because of that russian aircraft would be the preferred target for a surface to air missile. moreover knees or ala military also knew that russia and syria use different friend of four systems and because of that syrian radar is more likely to identify and the aleutian island twenty as a group of israeli jets. at this time the aleutian. made him a new virtual final approach towards th

we have the air force, the navy's air force, the army's air force, and we have the navy's army's air force which is the marine corporation. why do we have all of this, right? a lot of times they're buying similar platforms, you know, but they're buying them separately. a lot of redundancy in there but that's by design, right? it's good that they're trying these efficiency initiatives, but experience says you can't bank on a savings. one of the things they said with this budget release over the past year, i think jay gibson was on the record, the chief management officer, of saying that they were planning on $46 billion in efficiency savings over the next five years. that's baked into their budget. they're already assuming that. if they can't generate 46 billion in efficiencies over the next five years, then they either have to come back and ask for $46 billion more in funding, or they have to find $46 billion in cuts. so that was an ambitious target. and they said targets for fy18 and fy19 which they don't even seem close to meeting, but the big thing looming for 2019 and beyond, the

phase one -- knock out the royal air force and get control of the air.lowed the plan that had wiped out poland and france. destroy communication and transport lines. above all, get command of the air. two -- pulverize the coastline with dive bombers. drop parachute troops to take over the airfields and establish beachheads. phase three -- actual invasion. pour the german divisions across in high-speed barges under an umbrella of protecting fighter planes. then, send spearheads of armed might to divide, surround, and destroy all opposition. that is all there was to it. conquer britain. force the surrender of the british. then, with the combined power of germany, britain, italy, france, and japan, he could control the seas and tell us where to head in. the torch of freedom flickered low. on the channel invasion coast, more than 100 fully equipped german divisions were singing the nazi theme song, sailing against england, as they waited the word from hitler. here, for weeks, all of the supplies and weapons of the nazi war machine had been turned toward brit

but our air force now has the lead.and the upper right, there's a combined space operation center with certainly the u.s., uk, new zealand, australia, france, germany, and japan starting to work the way into the organization. if you see under the u.s., we certainly have great ties with unbelievable relationships with stratcom. and it's linked 24/7. the commander of my air force just offered stratcom for a continuity of ops back up. that's the level of integration we want to get through. i think there's about eight or ten comedians work -- canadians in the center. a kwaurpt of the people in the room might be canadians. we already have collaboration capabilities in the systems. so canada is a partner on both of those. currently we're getting our tactictact -- tactical in case-by-case. we're trying to negotiate military sales on the navy system. you think about anything else it's nice if we're on the same type of system. if you understand anything about the capability, it's going to drive the type of radios we get and how

force in air force history. how about that? ok, thank you. welcome to our last day. this has been great. we really appreciate you all being here. we really have a great panel for you today. essentially, a lot of the leadership of the air force. most of the leadership of the air force. ist is really exciting today we save the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all the money we had. until the end. we went out and hired the most expensive, most talented mc we could find. the general is going to mc does what appeared i'm going to kick this thing off. good morning. welcome. we have some fantastic speakers for you. really looking forward to it today. there is several commanders here that you are all familiar with. let me introduce them very quickly. lieutenant general scobee. rice. mcmurray. cost. web. chief. he is not. ok. he is a cowboy fan -- fan. we understand that. he has another speech. general miller, general ray. brown. homes. raymond. walters. wilson. goldstein. an all-star panel 40 this morning.

from the air guard. we multiply that number by ten and a number of people use involved in exercise across the whole committee. everything from the acc to first air force to all of our sites which are providing analysis of some of the data from over it. it's a whole dvd effort with 550 guardsmen, over 50,000 of our total force involved in this across the whole air force, to 10,000 army guardsmen are on the ground helping out and driving around and picking up people. we've done over three dozen rescues of people that it been stranded flashlight that comes through, and that is to continue and will continue for another week. thank you, sir. >> thanks. a couple questions coming in on innovation. so this one is really across the panel anyone could grab it, just go down the line see fit. first of all what are you seeing from the dollars that was put forward to wink and squadron and group commanders relative to the readiness dollars? how do we work -- this is come from the field -- how do we work through the fro

so now the royal canadian air force has functional leadership on air and space domain. if i go up, i've got my canadian space operation center. you see the outcan space ops, those oso, those are those canadians embedded in u.s. units. my space operation center is integrated in my command center in our joint operations command, the equivalent of our co-can command with links to our government ops center. in the bottom left, we have joint-based support teams, so we deploy space experts to advise our forces and coalition forces, to give them those links back into all of those space capabilities that we're integrated in. in the bottom center there, a lot of interaction with industry partners, and interaction with the canadian space agency and others, there's a lot of tentacl tentacles. i've learned in a year and a half, when you get into the space business, the level of interdependency across agencies is just off the charts. and in the right, in the purple, those are the other internal organizations that also contributed to the canadian armed forces space mission. so certai

three hundred air defense the more cysts sophisticated air defense. are going to be are definitely going to be. sent to syria and installed and perhaps manned by by russians themselves i think that's predictable they. they basically need to stay the course i think and they need to keep up the the the way that they have approached the terrorist controlled zones is creating civilian evacuation kora doors and they've gone they've offered reconciliation to the syrian militants and they have gone a little by little step by step that's been successful in aleppo and good to end there on the other places and i think that's probably what the syrians are going to do now. of course syria has the perfect right to have support from iran and the iranians have played a supportive role the role of iran has been exaggerated by israel and other countries all along but they have they've been helpful they've got special forces there they've got technical advisors and syria has the right to keep those people there it's not for israel to dictate to other countries who they

[laughter] >> on behalf of the air force association welcome to 2018 air, space and cyber conference. the air force has come a long way, the air force represents diverse and young military service who's culture is constant evolution as i'm confident anyone who has ever served in a position of air force command or leadership will agree nothing and absolutely nothing matters if families aren't supported and care for in a way that recognizes them as the most important element of our air force. we are excited to bring you this air force senior leader town hall meeting focusing on some of the important issues faced by airmen and family, faa is proud to present opportunity with interaction of the senior leadership of air force and amazing spouses. on stage we have chief master sergeant of the air force and his wife tonya. [cheers and applause] >> chief of staff and wife dawn. [cheers and applause] >> secretary of the air force heather wilson and husband jay holmes. [cheers and applause] >> these leaders are here to participate in a dialogue with you about issues important to you and your fa

defense ministry says israeli fighter jets are to blame for intentionally drawing the fire of syrian air defenses directly towards the doomed. breach it deliberately created a dangerous situation warships and located in that area. israel confirm strikes on syrian territory but insists syria iran and the armed group hezbollah are responsible for the downing of the russian. israeli army of the russian president extended their condolences to the families of the plane's crew of the remains along with personal belongings of being located in the mediterranean sea where the twenty came down. tonight here in moscow thanks for joining us this is r.t. internet. israel is to blame for the downing of a russian military plane off the coast of syria that's according to the russian defense ministry is claiming that the israeli air force used the i o. twenty as cover from syrian air defenses missiles from which hit the russian plying fifteen crew members died as a result for israeli fighter jets have been targeting syrian facilities in the taqiyya province at the time. so now suppose it would help on th

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the air force will change to keep up with it.op your problem-solving skills and put your mask on first. take care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually. let me leave you with a few more of my heroes who helped give me a sense of purpose. this is airman first class magill duarte. he dreamed of being an airmen, and airmen. and he realized the treatment only for a short time. he was in tactical training at sheppard air force base to become ac-130 crew chief. last june he was diagnosed with cancer. once the cancer sit in, it was aggressive. it was rapid. within a few months he transitioned to hospice care back at home in new york. and, sadly, he passed away on friday. but until the end he was positive, he was proud to be an airmen. he never stopped fighting. i i regret i didn't get to personally meet him, but i was able to send in a small token and a short handwritten note, letting him know that we were pulling for him. we were proud of him. we were proud of his courage and we were proud of his training. i believe he never fe

at the time a combine edd 11 mos in the united states air force.t's not just the fact it was a short duration. it was actually how they codified and articulated what they did and the responsibilities they had in the missile alert facility. what they did, they showed the boss a powerpoint and said this is why we're here, sir. we're here to ensure the quality of life of our folks supporting this mission. we're here to boost the morale of these individuals, these war fighters defending our nation. to e3s with a brand total of 11 months in the united states air force as a member of the armed forces. that is the kind of talents we have across our services. you know, it was interesting, madam secretary was here yesterday and she talked about recruiting. and the path going forward and what we had to do. i would offer up this, if i can pull if off, i'd go talk to the chief and go, sir, would you mind calling general miller and see if she can get a fleet of c-17s parked on andrews? every one of us in this auditorium could jump on it in time to run with the

knock out the royal air force. get control of the air.the low countries and france. destroy communication and transport lines. above all, take command of the air. phase 2, pulverize the coastline with dive bombers. take over the airfields. phase 3. the actual invasion. for german panzer divisions cross under an umbrella of protecting fighter planes. then, send spearheads of arm might to divide, surround and destroy all opposition. that's all there was to it. conquer britain. force the surrender of the british fleet. then, with the combined seapower of germany, britain, england, france and spain, he could control the seas and tell us where to head. on the invasion coast, more than 100 fully equipped german divisions are seen, singing the song, we are sailing against england, as they awaited the word from hitler. here, four weeks, all the supplies and weapons of the [null] war machine had been turned toward britain. ♪ >> the jaws of the [null] whale were set to swallow jonah. and how about jonah, how was he doing? well, britain also had an

to ground and ship to shore radio, air to radio, radar, sonar, we even connect air force one. look at the innovations as no small feat and importantly here they are not going to be the last ones because innovation and change are constant. in my conversations with technology leaders all over the world, you know, the topic of innovation is often discussed through a different lens here and that is the dialogue now around digital transformation. you know, executives, they are interested in how they can grow digitally and that doesn't just apply to the commercial sector, i think that applies to everyone in here and that's how do we improve the digital capability of any organization to assist our mission. we have all seen the dangers of being behind any major technology shift, you know, being able to embrace and adopt change and to do it quickly is key to winning in this digital world, you know, you already know about decision superiority, the concept that you have to make decisions faster than adversaries, you know, that holds true in business as well and now more than ever because

all of the stuff about the air force not supporting this, that is crazy, the air force was supported and you cannot find another space warrior, there is no way we could have developed leaders like the ones we have and all of the other space warriors without having institutional support from the air force. they grew them, promoted them and put them in position. here's the thing, right now, i believe when you go to a service, you are talking about offense of operations and their domain. space power, how would you do offense of operation. i don't believe the united states is saying we want to go -- we don't want to have on orbit space weapons that drop and provide support. i just don't think the united states is willing to go to that level. that is why i think this is all about fighting the constellation while under attack. getting the operators to think about every day how they would respond to these attacks. i would actually argue when you go to a space force it would be when and if offensive operations from space and support of terrestrial forces. at that point, i think you might nee

poor air quality in the bay area.( darya ) this is the 11th spare the air alert of the year.ive from san francisco. will... ( will ) officals say the smog is caused by a combination of high heat and a lot of pollution in the air because of vehicle emissions and smoke from the fires. they are warning people with respiratory problems to watch what they inhale while celebrating labor day. < if people can consider reducing < if people can consider reducing their polluting behavior. which would be don't mow the lawn, don't use a barbeque with lighter fluid, use a chimney instead.any kind of smoke from cooking or outdoor fires always impacts neighbors around the immediate area.> officals say its also important to take steps to reduce emissions... with things like carpooling. ( james ) i am in the weahter center with john shrable who is montioring that air quality this morning. morning.quality this that air montioring who is john shrable center with weahter i am in the ( james ) carpooling.like with things emissions... reduce take steps to important to take steps to reduce emissions

to be air men. god bless you all and god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] >> happy birthday to my fellow airmen. i am director of the task force and welcome to the panel on overcoming the national pilot shortage. our nation is currently not producing the number of highly trained pilots needed to meet national commercial and military needs. u.s. commercial airline exceeded 4,000 pilots in 2018 as expected to increase for the foreseeable future. the boeing company in july of this year released their 20-year outlook that stated the requirement for commercial pilots will double the 635,117 in north america and there will be an additional requirement for over 97,000 business pilots over the same period and in the next ten years, 42% of the major carriers of the united states pilots will retire over 22,000. in the air force where it is to fly and win, it will rely on a healthy ecosystem to maintain readiness and lethality in order to meet the national defense strategy. the u.s. air force i

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our air is clear. we have the best air conditioning system. >> the sun was shining on the artists from around the country. it also attracts fans of the arts, food, music and wine. and the success of the event is tied to weather. with the spare the air day issued for monday this is something organizers monitor closely. >> it is always, you know, in the back of our mind. the weather can make it or break it. last year tickets sales were down. this year it has been perfect. hopefully tomorrow will be as well. >> the smoke and residue from the wildfire concerns but many are taking it in stride. >> that is nature. that is nature. disaster. >> it is in our area and we felt it. coming outside, my car is covered in the soot. it was an air quality issue you had to deal with. last year's fires, i saw more people than this year. >> reporter: continued smoke from the wildfires along with pollution from cars prompted the alert. people are urged to avoid driving, burning wood outdoors. the alerts are issued with the

force twenty aircraft with fifteen personnel on board as cover from syrian air defenses for israeli fighter jets had been targeting syrian facilities in the province of latakia. so nothing to do but. on the seventeenth of september at around ten pm four israeli fighter jets launched guided bombs on syrian military facilities near the city of latakia the bombing occurred in the immediate vicinity of where the russian aisle twenty was coming in to land the israeli jets deliberately created a dangerous situation israeli pilots use the russian plane as cover against the syrian air defense systems as a result the russian oil twenty was brought down by a syrian air defense missile there's no way israeli pilots could not have seen the russian plane. the israeli military says it has no reaction to the incident does not comment on what it calls for and reports meanwhile russia's ministry of foreign affairs has summoned israel's ambassador over what exactly happened off the coast of syria or earlier the russian defense minister said moscow reserves the right to retaliate for what it views as

force in control of the air.lso had an air force, an air force outnumbered 10-1 by the enemy, both in men and machine. then there was britain herself. the people of britain who would be terrorized and forced to surrender. they knew every man, woman, and child in uniform or out would be , hitler's target in the onslaught that could come at any moment. they knew they had a job to do and not much time to do it. the young, not so young, and the old. the clerk, the butcher, the farmer, the members of parliament, they formed a homeian army, britain's guard. they started from scratch. ♪ experienced, equipment, supplies, all were scarce. only one shallow fire at each practice. the women of britain refused to be left out. >> we are in this, too. put up the barrage balloon. man the guns. run the railroad to get the trains through on time. carry the dispatchers. drive the ambulances and run the buses. see that our men are fed and do not go hungry. ♪ >> others worked. men and women alike. they worked full-time, overtime, dou

air force. let me also say that i think it's a very good thing that this subject is being talked about publicly. and i'm very, very reassured by the fact that the government is talking about these, the department of defense is talking about this. the executive branch all the way up to and including the president of the united states from our economy to our scientific advancements to our national security and they've all been expressing their concern about why some steps have to be taken and why it is that we need to act and i won't go back over that. i agree that csis, unclassified publications does a great job there. they also acknowledge that the pace of technology is going faster than our acquisition system has been able to assimilate. and they acknowledge, and i think this is right, time is not necessarily on our side here. i think that we assumeled during the cold war that our space assets would be threatened by the then soviet union, but the difference is that today, the loss of our space

we were having the spare the air debate. can you grill if it's a spare the air day? the sans yes, kind of. >> yeah. try not to use the lighter fluid. >> and use the oside. tt marine layer it gives us a layer of low clouds at about 2,000 feet or below. as we get a look at our temperatures it will be in the mid-50s. san jose we have an error there on our temperatures. we are mostly in the mid-to upper 50s. let's head over to brentwood. try to get out there early. temperatures will be cooler. air quality will be better and it will be in the low 60s through about 7:00. 8:00 is also low 60s. starting to warm up a little bit after that. we are up to 75 in oakland. it is 92 in concord. it is 87 degrees. san francisco reaching 85 degre. if you're heading out for the day it will be beach day. if you the day off and want to head over to the beach temperatures will be cool near the coast. inland areas will be hotter today. if you're going to santa kreez here is a look at our temperature trend. we are at 63 degrees. for the inland areas we'll be looking forward to air-conditioni

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defense ministry says israeli fighter jets are to blame for intentionally drawing the fire of syrian air defenses directly at the doomed across. the region its deliberately created a dangerous situation on the warships and located in. israel strikes on syria and. syria iran. as well or are to blame for the downing of the russian aircraft. the israeli army and russian president extend their condolences to the families of the plane's crew some of the remains of the crew along with their personal belongings have been located in the mediterranean sea where the twenty came down search and rescue operation is still underway. seven pm here in moscow watching our teams international live with me daniel hawkins where of you are today thanks for joining us this hour let's go straight to our breaking news story coming in from syria israel is to blame for the downing of a russian military jet off the coast of syria that's according to the russian defense ministry it claims the israeli air force use that twenty plane as cover from syrian air defenses which hit a russian plane fifteen crew members die

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like the air force. i could talk about this a long time. i'm in a give you the short version of this. in large organizations it is about decision-making and one of the problems. >> let me just back up one more piece. what you really want is scale and nimbleness. so if you take the u.s. air force one way to make it nimble is to make it much smaller. but that's a really bad solution. it brings some the advantages. and i see the same thing at amazon. because of our scale we can do things that we just couldn't have done has a garage startup. there are some things only big organizations can do. i was a garage startup. but you can't build a boeing 787 in your garage. so we want scale. and you and never trade the scale of the u.s. air force for anything the question becomes how do i keep the advantages of the scale and still have the advantages of a nimble startup. i want to be able to absorb a punch and i want to be able to dodge a punch because of my nobleness. >> while the way you state nimble is by making d

was the air force we could afford, not the air force we need.e need to set out for our countrymen what is the air force we need to do the job that the nation has asked us to do. >> and now in terms of how you are building and fortifying the air force right now and given also the fact that there is a focus on cost throughout the broader department of defense, how are you looking to do this >> well, the congress has given us some new authorities for prototyping experimentation and to move things faster and weaver doing that across the board. in space we have a half billion dollar consortium where we have 188 companies, 124 of them have never even done business with the air force before we put out a solicitation and we're going from solicitation to contract to award in 93 days we're about to change the way we engage small business where we do a solicitation, they give us a short concept, we invite them in and it's one day from they do their pitch and they walk out with a signed contract, a one-page contract and the funds. so if you get a paypal acc

of the air. you wouldn't want an air operations without understanding the state of the air. when you think about operationalizing data, you think about the network as that place where data's operating, and you think about it as a place where you can control, provide additional security, and capabilities that, goa lo go al. it there's hope when we look forward as well as a lot of capability that exists that we should make sure we don't get scared away from this discussion. >> thank you. general wilson, one member of our audience mentions that warfare is a governmental activity, of course. we know that there's always a challenge to recruit and retain talent. this person says our computer scientists, airmen koersd, python sperths and our rub expe stars, what is the air force prepared to do to make sure we have talent to lead this i.t. transformation and retain those people? are we considering nontraditional approaches to enlistment, to commissionsing, what say you, sir? >> the answer is yes to all o

it took the air force, what, 30 year, 40 years to become an air force. and there were, god knows there was an enormous amount of arm wrestling. i'm concerned at a time when i think our opponents are making great strides in changing the dynamic of reliable access to space that we're going to spend a hell of a lot of time arm wrestling with each other in washington. now, each of you have got different perspectives on that. bob, let me just ask, you arbitrated as deputy secretary over a lot of contending forces. what does this mean to create kind of an open-ended competition for status and turf? >> i assume you're talking to bob. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> well, this is what would happen. the department would try to count up all of the monies and resources being devoted to the space mission and capabilities as it could possibly do, be as accurate as it could. and if you created a separate space force, that would be their initial budget share of the department. now, you have to ask yourself is that the right budget share. you would have to then

for joining us activists say the last rebel controlled province in syria is being attacked from the air the spot a warning from u.s. president donald trump against any reckless attacks on the area it's believed more than twenty separate air strikes have been carried out al-jazeera understands at least eleven people were killed by air strikes on the town of. the united nations as warned that a full assault on it could spark a humanitarian catastrophe on a scale not yet seen in syria's seventy year old. well stephanie becker joins us now from ray on a near turkey's border with syria i mean that's quite a shocking phrase there just all in its own stephanie you know violence or catastrophe that we haven't seen in the seventy a year long war so far so what is the latest that you're hearing about the situation in italy. well from what we understand that number of dead has now risen to seventeen including five children around as you mentioned that southwestern area vidlin province also road and yes i mean the fears of the humanitarian catastrophe in the words of the united nations if this beco