Ready, Fire, Aim

The USAF is looking at how new technologies might provide a diction for the service's future:

The study will look 20 years ahead, with an eye toward implementing near-term investment decisions aimed at producing relevant military systems. "We are not talking about pie in the sky," Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said last month.

The problem ain't technology, it's the contracting, and cost control. At the rate things are going, all of the USAF's budget will go to just buying one aircraft somewhere around 2075.

After all, the F-22 already costs almost ½ as much as the first nuclear aircraft carrier, the Enterprise.

Their future is bleak until costs come under control, which is true of most of the military, but the US Air Force appears to be in the worst position regarding this.