Among the new measures: sponsoring more student pilots for commercial-aviation training and extending the fighter-pilot conversion program from three weeks to six months.
Her reports took viewers inside the cockpits of the world's most advanced strike fighter jets, and into training, as sailors and officers prepared to fight the war on terror overseas.
Given the relatively low costs of drones -- already far cheaper than the costs of a fighter jet and of training a fighter jet pilot -- armed drones will play a key role in future conflicts.
His most recent acquisition is an AT-6 training plane used by the Tuskegee airmen, the black pilots who flew as the 332nd Fighter Group in World War II.
The 31-year-old Nottingham fighter is putting the finishing touches to his preparations having recently arrived in Connecticut from his two-week training camp in Canada.