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cyberspace. 2) Funding for areas that are more disruptive than sustaining is necessary in
such an environment.
3. Exploitation of opportunities is offensive as well as defensive and requires
increased data-mining and virtual reality. If the USAF is serious about space and
cyber superiority, it will require: 1) Establishing a credible, demonstrable offensive
capability in space and cyberspace. Without these, it can neither establish a deterrent
posture with future adversaries nor fight effectively in these domains. A whole series of
advances in cyber technology will be required, as well as advances in space situational
awareness technologies and those required for offensive and defensive counterspace.
2) The USAF needs to pay particular attention to capabilities that enhance data mining
and meta-data tagging; the use of virtual reality testing of systems and CONOPS of all
kinds; and the integration of air, space, and cyberspace. Delivering appropriate effects
will be an increasingly complex operation calling for expanded and novel air, space and
cyber campaigns. Exercising multiple visions of these in wargames and virtual reality
simulation and modeling will be increasingly important.
4. The best investment we can make is in the education of USAF people to be
agile, versatile and future oriented. Investment in human capital, as well as physical
capital, is critical, for it in turn leads to development of the ideas and systems the USAF
will utilize in the conflict arenas of the future. Among the steps that should be taken are,
1) the reinsertion of S&T as a Joint Learning Objective for Professional Military
Education (it was removed in 2001); 2) increased emphasis on S&T in programs attended
by AFROTC students, and in reimbursable programs for serving enlisted and officers; 3)
a more tailored approach to developing specialties within the USAF that may be critical