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Adaptive Airborne Enterprise Top Acquisition Priority for AFSOC

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023

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Adaptive Airborne Enterprise Top Acquisition Priority for AFSOC

A Shield AI V-BAT drone (Photo on Shield AI website)

The Adaptive Airborne Enterprise (A2E) is the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) top acquisition priority, as the command seeks to move beyond its current intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) framework that uses 50 General Atomics' MQ-9A Reapers, Air Force Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, the head of AFSOC, said on Sept. 12. Under congressional reprogramming, AFSOC plans to conduct three A2E demonstrations in the next year, Bauernfeind told reporters at the Air and Space Forces Association's air, space and…

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