Photo By Tech. Sgt. Anthony Hyatt | Mrs. Dawn Goldfein, poses with 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing...... read more read more
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein and his wife, Mrs. Dawn Goldfein, visited the Airmen of the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing, Sept. 28, 2017 at Fort George G. Meade, Md.
As Air Force Chief of Staff, Goldfein serves as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipping of 660,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving in the United States and overseas. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the general and other service chiefs function as military advisers to the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council and the President.
During their visit, Goldfein hosted an All Call for the members of the 70th ISRW and highlighted his three focus areas for the next four years: 1.) Revitalizing the squadron, 2.) Strengthening joint leaders and team, and 3.) Advancing multi-domain, multi-functional command and control. After the All Call, he answered questions from the audience and met with Airmen one-on-one.
“It is at the squadron level where we succeed or fail as an Air Force,” said Goldfein about Revitalizing squadrons. “This is where Airmen and families thrive. It’s where training and education occurs.”
The CSAF mentioned that first and foremost, we need to push decision authority down to where it belongs.
“What happens when you get smaller? You consolidated manpower and moved it up the chain,” said Goldfein. “My assessment is that we moved manpower up, but the left the duties behind.”
Goldfein talked about his second focus area: Strengthening joint leaders and team and the importance of improving how the Air Force develops joint leaders and how the Air Force teams with other services for the future.
“We have got to be a service that’s ready to stand up and lead [joint] campaigns,” he said.
Goldfein presented the idea to deploying as teams as well.
“Starting 1 October, we are no longer in the business of sending individual Airmen into combat, we will be going as teams of three, minimum teams of 3,” said Goldfein. “You will have an established team leader and you will primarily be from the same base, but may be from a couple of bases in close proximity, you will train together, get gear together, deploy together, employ together, and perhaps most importantly you will redeploy and reintegrate together as a team.”
His third focus area addressed advancing multi-domain, multi-functional command and control capabilities so the service is more networked and can make decisions rapidly.
“It comes down to two things – an agile, resilient network and new way of thinking about data,” he said. “Does it connect? Good. Does it share? Even better. Does it learn? Touchdown. That’s the way we are headed.”
After his All Call, the CSAF visited the 70th ISRW headquarters building and received multiple briefings such as National Tactical Integration (NTI), Air Defense Signals Intelligence Analysis Team (ADSAT), Global Aviation Analysis Signals Intelligence (GAAST), Alaska Mission Operations Center (AMOC) and a briefing on Computer Network Operations Development program.
While the CSAF received his 70th ISRW briefings, Mrs. Goldfein meet with several 70 ISRW Key Spouses. During their meeting, they discussed the wing’s Key Spouse Program and their best practices.
| Date Taken: | 09.28.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 10.03.2017 14:41 |
| Story ID: | 250431 |
| Location: | FORT MEADE, MARYLAND, US |
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