{"id":13023,"date":"2010-02-22T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123191506"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:13:00","slug":"chief-of-staff-highlights-importance-of-space-to-air-force-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=13023","title":{"rendered":"Chief of staff highlights importance of space to Air Force mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123191506\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100218-F-1830P-703.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Air Force&#8217;s highest ranking uniformed officer spoke on the value of space and the emerging medium of cyberspace during the Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition Feb. 18 in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Virtually all aspects of military operations are affected in some way by the capabilities provided from (space and cyberspace), and it&#8217;s difficult to overstate their importance to the success of our Armed Forces,&#8221; said Gen. Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From precision navigation and timing, to global satellite communications, to space-based surveillance and missile warning, our space assets provide us with an unparalleled degree of accuracy, connectivity and situation awareness,&#8221; the general said. &#8220;Our exploitation of cyberspace and advanced information technologies enable us and the Joint team to properly command and control our forces &#8211; binding virtually all of our advanced capabilities together into precise, increasingly networked, and better <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123191506\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}