Our ability to project power rapidly around the world is crucial to not only combat demands, but to humanitarian and disaster relief missions as well. We are an Air Force on the move. Advancing technology will drive precision engagement and our ability to pinpoint any target anywhere in the world. Our ability to win wars in the future will depend on our ability to protect and defend our command and control communications, intelligence data and other information sources. Our success will also depend on our ability to defeat our enemies' information systems.
Information warfare is our latest battle front and one that is extremely complex.
Our support forces must be responsive, deployable and be able to sustain our combat environment. Efficiency and flexibility will replace the massive inventories we used to deploy. It is within them that you as senior NCOs must help me define what our future enlisted corps will look like. As functional managers and senior NCO leaders, you must define the training requirements and demonstrate how our force will be equipped. We must realize that from now on we are in a race with technology, and we must lead into the future by thinking outside the stovepipes of our own career fields.