United States Transportation Command

We have three guests today here to discuss these efforts to revitalize and modernize the Air Force's mobility fleet.

First, we have retired General Jackie Von Ovost, a senior principal advisor at Alerinova and the former commander of Air Force Mobility Command and U.S. Transportation Command.

Ma'am, welcome to the show.

Thanks.

Wow.

And then, uh, the US Transportation Command, TRANSCOM, they're rolling out randomized AI systems to secure their military logistics routing.

Which is huge.

And Google just dropped their Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voice models, which makes conversational latency virtually zero.

As me, Mark Montgomery, and Elaine Duszynski argued in our new book, On the Axis of Aggressors, moving US troops and equipment efficiently and expeditiously is essential to America's ability to project power, deter aggression, and support partners and allies and sustain forces to fight and win wars.

According to March 2026 congressional testimony by General Randall Reed, commander of US Transportation Command, over 85% of US combat power resides within the continental United States.

That puts a premium, as he said last year, on resilient transportation networks fortified against malicious cyber attacks.

That is why he reiterated in March that we must prioritize and properly resource efforts to overcome what General Reid called contested, disrupted, or denied logistical pathways.

General Crumbly's duties include commanding and developing policies and programs affecting nearly 3,000 Georgia Air National Guard airmen and civilians serving in two flying wings, seven geographically separated units, and a training center across six different locations.

General Crumbly also serves as the Air National Guard Assistant to the Commander, United States Transportation Command.

Major General Kanata A. Deuce Crumbly.

Tug and I are extremely honored to have you join us in the studio today.

at Air Mobility Command back in Scott Air Force Base outside of St. Louis.

Then it grew to the whole logistics and transportation, not just Air Force, but at U.S. Transportation Command, U.S. Transcom, that had Airland C, and the overlay of communication, command, control, computation, and intelligence, what we call C4I, the overlay of sensors and automation to give you better situational assessment and actionable intelligence into what's coming, if bad weather comes, if attacks happen, how do you reconfigure the system? So those 15 years helped me train to join EPRI as the head of mathematics and information sciences to propose this after the 1996 outage in the West Coast that blacked out the entire Western states and two Canadian provinces because a line had sagged into a tree in the border between Oregon and California, how to avoid that, how to localize it if it happens, how to enable more rapid self-healing, restoration, and learning from that, almost like a martial artist, boxer.

Can you learn from failure and recover faster next time or localize the damage? So that was the concept for the self-healing grid, SMART grid.

Well, and you say localize