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Air Force’s new Chief of Staff, Gen. T. Michael Moseley, believes the Air Force must get back to the good old days of weapon systems development when it took only six years to field the F-15 fighter, once the service established its requirement. He said, the timeline for the F/A-22 will run about 14 years. Moseley, who was speaking to reporters Monday at the Air Force Association’s Air & Space Conference and Technology Expo in Washington, D.C., acknowledged that the F-15 timeline will be tough to match, but said he plans to energize the new-weapon acquisition cycle as much as possible.
Trainees in Basic Military Training and technical school no longer have the option to try alternate PT drills if they fail an initial assessment, according to a policy change the Air Force made in April. The move is part of a larger shift out of the classroom and into hands-on,…