Among the U.S. Air Force's top modernization priorities will be the integration of autonomous systems to counter high-tech potential adversaries, China and Russia, Air Force Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones said on Nov. 30. "Certainly, there are lots of opportunities when it comes to autonomous systems and how we better connect some of those," she told the Air Force Association's (AFA) Air and Space Warfighters in Action forum when asked by AFA president Bruce "Orville" Wright to identify top modernization needs. "In a high attrition fight, there is certainly value in having a lot of attritable targets. This is also in the interest of making sure that we are being good stewards of the American taxpayers' dollars."
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