With a 2018-19 budget deal that brings an uptick in funding and at least 18 months of long-requested fiscal stability, the U.S. Air Force is looking to reinvent itself for the battles of the future, while tuning up its existing equipment after 17 years of supporting ground wars. This eBook describes how the Air Force is taking aim at its future.

The return of great-power competition is spurring the quest to develop artificial intelligence for military purposes. This ebook reveals how AI is already shaping the battlefield and forecasts the practical, ethical, and philosophical conflicts ahead.

This book looks at the Pentagon’s cutting-edge cyber tools and capabilities for defending and attacking networks in the age of the zero day. It also explores how new tactics and hacks are changing defense for leaders and even soldiers in conflict zones.

From nascent tactics addressing cyber operations to research into drones and even weapons that will alter their behaviors to match the mental and physical states of the troops who wield them, the future of the Army will reflect an ever-increasing reliance on and exploitation of data and information.