April 30, 2026 USAF Supply Chain Protection and Cyber Weapon System Infrastructure Accreditation How can the Air Force holistically protect its critical IT networks by integrating physical supply chain security and chain of custody best practices with a streamlined, enterprise-wide accreditation process that resolves existing Risk Management Framework conflicts between base enclaves and cyber
April 30, 2026 Future Force Posture, Theater Nuclear Concepts, and Scientific/Technical Implications of Conventional-Nuclear Integration How must the Joint Force address DOTMLPF-P challenges and prioritize scientific and technical research to advance Conventional-Nuclear Integration, enabling U.S. forces to operate effectively through nuclear environments and adapt theater campaigns to counter pacing threats like China and Russia?
April 30, 2026 CNI--How to Integrate Conventional and Nuclear Munition on American Bomber and Fighter Aircraft Given the shift in the modern warfare paradigm, should the U.S. revisit its Cold War-era policy that restricts the co-loading of conventional and nuclear weapons on the same aircraft?
April 30, 2026 Influence of Operational Tempo on Nuclear Deterrence AI, multi-domain C3BM, and non-kinetic weapons (especially effects at a distance) are allowing an increase in the tempo of decision making and operational tempo. How will the speed of conflict and decision making influence decisions to use nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence?
April 30, 2026 Conventional and Nuclear Munitions Integration, Acquisition, and Agile Fielding How must the Air Force adapt its capability development, acquisition processes, and restrictive policy constraints to rapidly and safely field dual-capable conventional and nuclear platforms in response to modern strategic competition?
April 27, 2026 Technological Support to Civil Resistance and Virtual Special Warfare in the Future Operating Environment How must Special Operations Forces leverage emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence and secure communications—and navigate the associated security risks to effectively execute virtual special warfare and support civil resistance movements against oppressive regimes in the
April 27, 2026 South Korea as a Power-Projection Platform and Chinese Views of U.S. Presence How do the People's Republic of China and the People's Liberation Army perceive the U.S. military footprint in the Indo-Pacific, and how does the potential use of U.S. forces stationed in South Korea as a regional power-projection platform impact PRC contingency planning and crisis response?
April 27, 2026 U.S. High Yield Weapon Strategy What priority should a high-yield nuclear weapon capability hold within U.S. nuclear strategy and the Program of Record, considering its potential psychological effect on adversaries' decision-making versus the physical damage it can create?
April 27, 2026 Trustworthy Integration of Large Language Models: Data Ingestion, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Analytic Tradecraft How must the United States Air Force engineer reliable Large Language Model pipelines—leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation and fine-tuning techniques—to securely parse widespread datasets while strictly adhering to Intelligence Community Directive 203's analytic tradecraft
April 27, 2026 Risks to the Strategic Domain of Space from an Ablation Cascade What are the risks of an adversary deliberately initiating an ablation cascade to deny U.S. strategic space assets, and what protective measures, including potential revisions to the Outer Space Treaty, can be undertaken to mitigate this threat?