Goldfein Stresses Need to Push Industry, Congress Toward Network-Centric Investments

摘要

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein’s goal for fiscal year 2021 will be to convincestakeholders on Capitol Hill and in the defense industry that the service’s future is a networkedarchitecture where access to data – not platforms – is the priority.Speaking at a Jan. 27 event sponsored by the Center for a New American Security inWashington, D.C., Goldfein said he and his counterparts in the Joint Chiefs of Staff mustsuccessfully articulate a vision for Congress and contractors of “the importance of networks”and that “data is the currency of future warfare.”