HONOLULU —Pacific Air Forces’s massive REFORPAC exercise in the Pacific this summer “identified the capabilities that we need to win in this theater,” the command’s deputy leader said last week: namely, artificial intelligence, autonomy, machine learning; improved command and control capabilities; and resilient cyber networks “that can communicate securely in expeditionary environments and survive relentless attacks.”

Speaking at the AFCEA TechNet Indo-Pacific conference, Lt. Gen. Laura Lenderman said that while “revisionist autocracies” want to “upend the security, freedom, and prosperity” of the Indo-Pacific, there is “another chapter we’re writing…filled with optimism and clarity, that strengthens deterrence, inspires progress and reinforces our shared vision of the future.”

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