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Goldfein Stresses Need to Push Industry, Congress Toward Network-Centric Investments

Goldfein Stresses Need to Push Industry, Congress Toward Network-Centric Investments
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein speaks to Airmen during an all call at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Aug. 14, 2019. During the all call, Goldfein covered topics such as multi-domain operations, joint leaders and teams and the importance of squadrons in the Air Force. This was Goldfein’s first stop as he visits various units in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Heather Redman)

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein’s goal for fiscal year 2021 will be to convince stakeholders on Capitol Hill and in the defense industry that the service’s future is a networked architecture where access to data – not platforms – is the priority. Speaking at a Jan. 27 event sponsored by the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., Goldfein said he and his counterparts in the Joint Chiefs of Staff must successfully articulate a vision…

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