Aerospace Dialogue
Aerospace Nation: Lt Gen James Slife
February 16, 2021
Aerospace Nation: Brig Gen Heather Pringle
February 4, 2021
Aerospace Nation: Gen James Dickinson
January 26, 2021
Aerospace Nation: Never Mind We'll Do It Ourselves - Book Launch
January 22, 2021
Aerospace Nation: Lt Gen Richard Clark
January 21, 2021
Nuclear Deterrence Forum: VADM Johnny Wolfe
January 14, 2021
Space Power Forum: Brig Gen Brook Leonard
December 21, 2020
Aerospace Nation: Dr. Richard Joseph
December 17, 2020
Nuclear and Missile Defense Forum: Lt Gen (Ret) Richard P. Formica & Brig Gen (Ret) Kenneth E. Todorov
December 16, 2020
20th Nuclear Triad Symposium
December 10, 2020
Aerospace Nation: EW/EMS Superiority Roundtable
December 9, 2020
Aerospace Nation: Lt Gen Joseph Guastella
December 8, 2020
West Coast Aerospace Forum
Actualizing Joint All Domain Command and Control: The Way Ahead
December 2, 2020
Nuclear Deterrence Forum: Lt Gen (Ret.) Frank Klotz
November 18, 2020
Aerospace Nation: CSAF Gen Charles Q. Brown
October 21, 2020
Aerospace Nation: Understanding the Promise of Skyborg and Low-Cost Attritable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
October 1, 2020
2020 West Coast
Aerospace Forum
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The Mitchell Institute and co-sponsors the RAND Corporation, the Aerospace Corporation, CSIS, and the MITRE corporation held its 6th Annual West Coast Aerospace Forum on December 1, 2, & 3. This year we virtually engaged with some of the Air Force's most senior and experienced leaders as well as top civilian national security experts on today’s biggest topics in Aerospace Power and discussed how the United States can move into 2021 and beyond toward greater air, space, and cyber capabilities for future competitions in advanced threat landscapes.
Photo: Lt Gen (Ret.) Dave Deptula hosts CSAF Gen C.Q. Brown on Aerospace Nation in October
Latest Publications
OpEd: Air Force: Don’t Buy Old Combat Aircraft
Forbes, Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.)
Air Force Persistent Logistics: Sustaining Combat Power during 21st Century Competition and Conflict
Lt Gen Warren Berry, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection
Aerospace Nation with General Jeffrey Harrigian
Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.)
Five Persistent Misconceptions About Modernizing The U.S. ICBM Force
Forbes, Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.)
OpEd: Stop the Budgetary Bleeding to get the Air Force We Need
Defense News, Doug Birkey
Forum Paper
The Coming 5G Evolution in Network Centric Warfare: The Sensor Saturation Theory
Lt Col Anthony Tingle, USA retired
Understanding the Promise of Skyborg and Low-Cost Attritable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Col Mark A. Gunzinger, USAF (Ret.) and Lukas Autenried, Senior Analyst
5th Generation Air Battle Management
The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in partnership with the Air Power Development Centre of the Australian Department of Defence
Forum Paper
Failure is not an Option: Changing the Paradigm on Air Force Logistics
Lt Col Lucas Choate, United States Air Force
Forum Paper
USAF Fighter Force Procurement: A Comparative Analysis of the F-35 and F-15EX Programs
Cadet Kade J. Leonard
Resolving America’s Defense Strategy-Resource Mismatch: The Case for Cost-Per-Effect Analysis
Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.) and Douglas Birkey
Long-Range Strike: Resetting the Balance of Stand-in and Stand-off Forces
Col Mark A. Gunzinger, USAF (Ret.)
Modernizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Export Policy for Effective Coalition Forces
Heather R. Penney, Senior Resident Fellow
The Mitchell Forum
The Forum flagship short paper series is where we publish authors with new, innovative, and thought provoking writing on current and emerging policy issues pertaining to national defense and aerospace power.
5th Generation Air Battle Management
By Chris Westwood, Foreword by Lt Gen (Ret.) Dave Deptula
No. 34: Failure is not an Option: Changing the Paradigm on Air Force Logistics
No. 33: USAF Fighter Force Procurement: A Comparative Analysis of the F-35 and F-15EX Programs
No. 32: The RAF Eighty Years on from the Battle of Britain
By Kevin Billings
No. 31: Acquiring the Air Force We Need
By John Venable
By Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF (Ret.)
Latest Video
Aerospace Nation: Actualizing Joint All Domain Command and Control--The Way Ahead:
At the Mitchell Institute's 2020 West Coast Aerospace Forum panel on actualizing JADC2, we hear from top national security officials Lt Gen Clinton Hinote, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy, Integration and Requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air Force; Brig Gen David Abba, Director of the F-35 Integration Office, Headquarters U.S. Air Force; Dr. Tim Grayson, Director of the Strategic Technology Office, DARPA; and Ms. Heather Penney, Senior Resident Fellow at the Mitchell Institute. These four bring unique perspectives regarding the operational concepts and technologies necessary to achieve the JADC2 vision. The West Coast Aerospace Forum is jointly sponsored by Mitchell Institute, RAND, MITRE, and Aerospace Corporation.