For 75 years, American Airmen have excelled as they execute the Air Force mission to fly, fight, and win — delivering airpower anytime, anywhere in defense of our nation.

Airmen are called to “Innovate, Accelerate and Thrive” as the U.S. Air Force and Department of the Air Force approach their 75th anniversaries on Sept. 18, 2022. Airmen will always be there to provide America with the airpower it needs to defend the nation, deter or defeat our adversaries, reassure our partners and allies, and help diplomacy proceed from a position of strength.

Commentary: Lessons from our past – Claire Chennault on Agile Combat Employment

As the Air Force leans into Agile Combat Employment, lessons can be learned from Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers and how they operated in China during WWII.

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AF 75th Birthday INNOVATE

Innovation, fueled by Airmen, is our heritage. Airmen continue to push technological and cultural boundaries which make America the leader in airpower and spacepower. Innovation is an integral part of how we train and employ our squadrons, develop our capabilities, and continue to move toward an even more effective Air Force.

AF 75th Birthday Accelerate

From their inception 75 years ago, the U.S. Air Force and Department of the Air Force have excelled at keeping pace with rapid changes in technology and in the demands placed on the Air Force’s five core missions: air superiority; global strike; rapid global mobility; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; and command and control.

AF 75th Birthday Thrive

We are the world’s greatest Air Force because of those who have gone before us – particularly those who weren’t afraid to break barriers. Empowered Airmen are the competitive edge we have over our adversaries and the reason we are the world’s greatest Air Force.

Air Force 75th Anniversary Commemorative Poster: Air Force Firsts

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: The Doolittle Raid - 1940s Era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. - 1950s Era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Flight of the Blackbird - 1960s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Apollo 15 - 1970s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: B-52 Stratofortress - 1980s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Stealth War - 1990s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Dominate the Skies – 2000s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: First Unmanned Flight - 2010s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Force of the Future - 2020s Era

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SoSNIE 2023 Demo at NIWC Atlantic_Stringer

Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic

March 28, 2023 | 1:12

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic wrapped up a week of technology integration and experimentation on March 17 aimed at equipping Marines to better sense, make sense, decide, and — if necessary — act with devastating precision.

For the fourth year in a row, the Expeditionary Intelligence Solutions (EIS) Division of the command’s Expeditionary Warfare (ExW) Department coordinated a weeklong System of Systems Naval Integration Experiment (SoSNIE), deploying sophisticated Marine Corps software and hardware to a remote range on base.

More than 100 NIWC Atlantic engineers, computer scientists and subject matter experts worked to integrate dozens of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems.

NIWC Atlantic’s ExW Department is the lead systems integrator for multiple U.S. Marine Corps edge-to-enterprise C4ISR technologies that include geolocation, next-generation sensors, decision science, signature management, networking-on-the-move and advanced optical communications.

The scope of SoSNIE 2023 increased in scale and complexity from last year’s event. The most significant difference was the presence of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN), which was piped in live through a new capability called a Tactical Entry Point.