WEBVTT 00:07.740 --> 00:10.860 Yeah . What are they up to ? 00:12.140 --> 00:14.640 It's a simple question . As old as war 00:14.640 --> 00:17.440 itself in the days of the civil war , 00:17.440 --> 00:19.607 we flew balloons with lookouts because 00:19.607 --> 00:21.829 we wondered what our enemies were doing 00:21.829 --> 00:23.940 on the other side of a river . Now we 00:23.940 --> 00:25.996 wonder what our enemies are doing on 00:25.996 --> 00:27.940 the other side of the world . That 00:27.940 --> 00:30.218 simple question of what are they up to ? 00:30.218 --> 00:32.496 Has driven the mission of intelligence , 00:32.496 --> 00:34.551 surveillance and reconnaissance ever 00:34.551 --> 00:36.662 since the cloth biplanes of the first 00:36.662 --> 00:38.996 aero squadron under Black Jack Pershing ? 00:38.996 --> 00:40.996 Yeah , it's amazing to think how we 00:40.996 --> 00:43.630 used to do things . Our first low orbit 00:43.630 --> 00:45.852 reconnaissance satellites were launched 00:45.852 --> 00:48.630 in 1959 . Film canisters were dropped 00:48.640 --> 00:50.529 by parachute and caught midair by 00:50.529 --> 00:53.570 planes . We've seen the Liberator , The 00:53.570 --> 00:55.681 Black Widow and the Flying fortress , 00:55.740 --> 00:58.260 the U . Two , the Blackbird , the 00:58.270 --> 01:01.420 Global Hawk , the sentinel satellites 01:01.420 --> 01:03.364 that can read a magazine over your 01:03.364 --> 01:05.690 shoulder . The most amazing technology 01:05.690 --> 01:07.857 the world has ever known for gathering 01:07.857 --> 01:10.110 data is at our fingertips , imaging and 01:10.110 --> 01:12.470 mapping , intercepting communications , 01:12.480 --> 01:14.813 sniffing out nuclear weapons facilities , 01:14.813 --> 01:17.070 humanitarian efforts like wildfires , 01:17.120 --> 01:20.210 tsunamis and hurricanes . But our 01:20.210 --> 01:22.980 people are the platform . As our 01:22.980 --> 01:25.036 intelligence gathering gets more and 01:25.036 --> 01:27.202 more sophisticated . The only thing is 01:27.202 --> 01:29.424 more impressive than the quality of the 01:29.424 --> 01:31.647 data are the speed at which it's turned 01:31.647 --> 01:33.869 into information and acted upon and the 01:33.869 --> 01:36.202 innovation and creativity of our people . 01:37.280 --> 01:39.280 Airmen and guardians are constantly 01:39.280 --> 01:41.224 searching for new ways to see over 01:41.224 --> 01:43.224 obstacles to see over the horizon . 01:43.640 --> 01:46.120 Find the unf findable , discover the 01:46.120 --> 01:48.800 undiscovered herbal , this is what we 01:48.810 --> 01:51.500 do so that the thousands of threats we 01:51.500 --> 01:53.710 hear about never have to become the 01:53.710 --> 01:56.250 threats our country hears about 01:56.260 --> 01:58.940 predictive analysis . Joint warfighting 01:58.950 --> 02:01.061 and real time execution is our flight 02:01.061 --> 02:03.670 path . We must become a digital 02:03.710 --> 02:05.988 interconnected force , bringing people , 02:05.988 --> 02:08.700 machines and data together . In the new 02:08.700 --> 02:10.922 world of joint all domain , command and 02:10.922 --> 02:13.144 control , we will leverage the power of 02:13.144 --> 02:15.490 artificial intelligence and win by 02:15.500 --> 02:17.500 operating at a temple . Are enemies 02:17.500 --> 02:21.240 can't keep up with . What are they up 02:21.240 --> 02:24.890 to ? The days of balloons and 02:24.890 --> 02:26.890 biplanes had been replaced by white 02:26.890 --> 02:29.160 bats , recover faster than the speed of 02:29.160 --> 02:31.540 war in the most capable and innovative 02:31.550 --> 02:33.560 airmen and guardians we've ever had 02:35.240 --> 02:37.296 When the future is coming at Mach 18 02:37.640 --> 02:39.751 maybe . The more interesting question 02:39.751 --> 02:42.750 is , what are we up to ? 02:44.040 --> 02:44.360 Mhm .