Hawk Carlisle.

• Date: 01 November 2019

Retired Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle is the president and CEO of NDIA and the former commander of Air Combat Command. He also served as the commander of Pacific Air Forces; the air component commander for U.S. Pacific Command; and executive director of the Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff.

I think the big change in the next 25 years, and what we are undergoing today, is the digitization of warfare and the time element that's involved with that. The next discussion is in sensing, what's going on in command and controlling your forces and creating effects. We used to talk days to hours to maybe minutes, and now you're talking speed of light, nanoseconds with the digital age.

And if you look at technology and where it's evolving with hypersonic weapons--that's a time element right now. You cut down an adversary's ability to react because the flight time becomes so much...