The Air Force could be the most challenged of the United States military services in the Pentagon’s push toward decentralized weapon systems because the air service has benefited from having dominant capabilities and, thus, is most resistant to fundamental change, according to a key Pentagon executive.Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) Director William Roper said Tuesday in the early days of the Cold War, Pentagon leaders designed a conventional architecture that emphasized maximally-centralized functions of architecture so they could be recycled over…
