Feb. 2, 2025 Chinese Views of US Operations What are the PRC views of US military operations and what lessons can be learned from those operations? (CASI)
Feb. 2, 2025 Medical Return to Duty in Conflict In peer conflict with large-scale combat operations, how does the medical service shift to maintaining patients in the AOR and close to the front lines for assessment and treatment in order to expedite an Airman's return to duty? (Surgeon General)
Feb. 2, 2025 Effect-Based Metrics Posture Use modeling and simulation to provide heuristics or other shortcuts that can connect improvements in fuel efficiency to capabilities valued by operators. (SAF/IEN)
Feb. 2, 2025 Cost Imposition in Strategic Competition What role, if any, did USAF programs, postures, or concepts play in the changes to the PRC’s Strategic Guideline (zhanlue fangzhen)? (HAF/A5SM Strategic Assessments)
Feb. 2, 2025 Strategic Basing Develop a relatively high-fidelity simulation of an average year of training for a unit (ideally KC-46 or F-35) to develop comparative metrics that can inform basing decisions for the aircraft fielding process. (SAF/IEN)
Feb. 2, 2025 Operationalizing the Drone Effect What are the effects, namely on fuel consumption, of substituting manned aircraft with RPAs? Which missions (e.g. ISR/Strike/EW/counter-UAS) in permissive/semi-contested environments can be accomplished with more fuel-efficient aircraft/RPAs? What are the additional benefits to
Feb. 2, 2025 Emerging Cyber Powers What states are investing in military cyber capabilities and may emerge in the next 5-10 years as new advanced threats to the U.S. and our allies? (US Cyber Command)
Feb. 2, 2025 Foreign Operating Concepts in Air Warfare How are nation-state and non-nation-state objectives and their associated operating concepts influencing the changing dynamics of air warfare? (HAF A5SM)