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The 2019 Mobility Air Forces Weapons and Tactics Conference (WEPTAC) is scheduled July 29 to Aug. 9 at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
WEPTAC provides an opportunity for weapons officers and tacticians to anticipate and address the challenges of great power competition through a Tactics Review Board.
In addition to the review board, multiple working groups will further discuss and provide real solutions for innovating new tactics to meet the demands of contested domains, now and in the future.
This year’s theme is “Extend and Sustain: The Fight to Get to The Fight,” offering the over 250 subject matter experts representing the Total Force and each mission design series opportunities to team through problem solving, critical thinking, challenging norms and developing solutions.
“The wing tacticians will look at what they are doing and shortfalls in training as well as downrange and figure out the problems or shortfalls that we have right now, that we can’t meet that mission requirement,” said Maj. Todd Fisk, AMC Operations Unit Support chief. “That’s the purpose of what we are doing now, such as adaptive basing, it’s kind of the big overarching theme of this, to operate in a contested, degraded and operationally limited environment.”
One of the working groups incorporated in MAF WEPTAC is the Mission Area Working Group, which is designed to analyze and develop improvements to tactical operations.
“The first week we look at MAWGs, and during that we try to solicit problems or statements from the different Major Commands, Geographic Combatant Commands or the Numbered Air Forces to see what problems they are facing that they maybe don’t have the tactics to solve yet,” said Maj. Matthew Eggert, Air Mobility Command Airlift Special Operations Programs chief. “We solicited inputs for those, we chose three, and we will bring in SMEs from across the Air Force to help attack those problems and basically inform new tactics that we need to develop.”
The Tactics Review Board examines Tactics Improvement Proposals for improvements needed to advance tactics for all mobility aircraft and weapons systems , stated Eggert.
“During that part, we will have side-bars split up between all the different aircraft,” Eggert added. “The [Air Operations Center], contingency response, intelligence, cyber and survival specialists will process all their TIPs and those will help generate changes to AFIs or publications. They will help put out test requests or they might derive new tactics which they can publish in a tactics bulletin.”
Ensuring the right people participate in the conference is integral to keeping the Mobility Air Forces efficient in implementing global reach.
“The big reason we chose ‘Extend and Sustain: The Fight to Get to The Fight’ is to highlight what the MAF provides to the joint force,” said Eggert. “The MAF deploys and then sustains the joint force as it conducts offensive operations. So we are saying extend and sustain … and the fact that we do it on a global scale, is really what allows the U.S. and the DoD to project power.”
MAF Airmen are consistently innovating and improving processes. WEPTAC provides an opportunity for those ideas to be developed and implemented to increase capabilities across the globe.
| Date Taken: | 07.26.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 09.25.2019 10:17 |
| Story ID: | 343617 |
| Location: | SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILLINOIS, US |
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