“We still do hold a technological edge, but it’s a smaller edge than we used to have,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. David Snoddy. “We’re now focused on, let’s bring that margin back.”

“Every time it’s like, go watch one [robotic tactical vehicle] follow another one around the parking lot and it runs over the curb and I’m like, ‘Come on, we got to do better than this,” Gen. James Rainey said today.

A senior Space Force official said the Air Force was getting “rid” of the current structure as part of a great power reoptimization, but later walked back his comments as “not concrete.”