The U.S. Air Force operates the current GPS satellite constellation and its associated ground facilities, and is planning for the next generation of those satellites. “The Air Force leaders believe that by networking together sensors and weapons, they can get a much more potent Air Force than by simply focusing on airplanes alone,” said Loren Thompson, military analyst at the Lexington Institute. When you see on the television a report that North Korea has launched another test missile, that’s detected by the United States Air Force. Having no defense budget would be ‘devastating’We need to lift the defense caps in the budget. If we had to go through sequester, we would devastate the Air Force.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 19, 2017 15:00 UTC