The Air Force says it’s ready to start training at least some of its enlisted members to fly aircraft. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, the classes are set to begin next month, and the graduates would be the first enlisted pilots in the Air Force’s 69-year history.

Cybersecurity — and the battle to maintain it — has entered a new phase. Autonomous machines are capable of writing malicious code, only to be discovered and neutralized by white-hat machines — also operating on their own. A recent challenge sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency pitted three company teams, each fielding autonomous bug-hunting machines. The winner was a Pittsburgh company called For-All-Secure. Here’s Tyler Nighwander, For-All-Secure’s bi-directional engineer, to explain more about how it all works.

The Air Force is not just looking to add enlisted men and women to its aircraft crews. It is also rethinking the way its forces are organized. Chief of Staff General David Goldfein directs three new task forces to assess the Air Force of the future. One task force focuses on the makeup of Air Force squadrons. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione has more.

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