BLUE: An Agile Approach

In this edition of BLUE, we're taking a look at Agile Combat Employment (ACE), and how it's impacting the way you'll train and operate when you deploy.

Adversaries around the globe have increasing capabilities to hold main operating bases overseas at risk. Small, unmanned aircraft systems, as well as cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles are just some of the rapid technological advancements creating this new environment.

That calls for a new way of doing business, one that recognizes this change, and allows Airmen to operate in a way that gives them flexibility.

Using ACE concepts, combat assets move from location to location, exploiting opportunities to attack while keeping key assets out of harm's way as much as possible.

Hear from the people who are making ACE happen across the Air Force, see how ACE works, and learn why it's important that you operate this way.
  

In this edition of BLUE, we're taking a look at Agile Combat Employment (ACE), and how it's impacting the way you'll train and operate when you deploy.

Adversaries around the globe have increasing capabilities to hold main operating bases overseas at risk. Small, unmanned aircraft systems, as well as cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles are just some of the rapid technological advancements creating this new environment.

 
That calls for a new way of doing business, one that recognizes this change, and allows Airmen to operate in a way that gives them flexibility.

Using ACE concepts, combat assets move from location to location, exploiting opportunities to attack while keeping key assets out of harm's way as much as possible.

Hear from the people who are making ACE happen across the Air Force, see how ACE works, and learn why it's important that you operate this way.

 

 

 
 
 
Info Essentials

Downloadable infographics and videos that help explain how the Air Force is adapting for the future.
 

Info Essentials

Downloadable infographics and videos that help explain how the Air Force is adapting for the future.
 

 
  

Legacy of Change

Agile Combat Employment is a strategic shift in the way Airmen operate, but it's not the first time the Air Force has changed. We visited the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio with Dr. Andrew Wackerfuss, an Air Force Historian, to talk about the eras in which the service took a new direction because of world events, and some of the aircraft associated with those changes.
 

  • This animation shows how ACE works as a "scheme of maneuver," protecting valuable assets while providing flexibility to bring firepower in a conflict. What is Agile Combat Employment?
  • AFFORGEN: Air Force Force Generation AFFORGEN: Air Force Force Generation
 
 
 
Info Essentials

The Military and Family Readiness Center has a host of programs and helpers when you’re getting ready for a deployment, or for everyday needs.  As more units start to work and train under the Air Force Force Generation (AFFORGEN) model, the role of Readiness Centers and the services they provide can make a big difference through each phase of the cycle.  

Merging Timelines: Deployment Support Center
Merging Timelines: Deployment Support Program
 
 
 
Ready Airmen

Click to watch each Airman give their own perspective on how they adapt to change.
 

Ready Airmen

Click to watch each Airman give their own perspective on how they adapt to change.
 

 
 
 
 
BLUE Editions

View previous editions of BLUE and see how the Air Force is adapting for the future.

 
BLUE Editions

View previous editions of BLUE and see how the Air Force is adapting for the future.