COVID-19's Lessons Will Have Lasting Repercussions

摘要

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread last winter, the Air Force and Space Force scrambled to improvise, maintaining operations while adopting new procedures to ensure Airmen stayed healthy. Although many of those changes will be temporary, service leaders now believe others could become permanent. "COVID, as tragic as it may be, actually drove us to do some things we had planned to do for a while, particularly on our information technology systems," said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. at the Air Force Association's virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference. "This is an opportunity."