A team of 28 airmen and soldiers from Joint Task Force-Bravo in Honduras spent two days providing medical care to residents of Costa Rica. • Air Force Research Lab is teaming with several contractors for ground experiments under a program called Future-responsive Access to Space Technologies, or FAST, which AFRL expects to develop mature technologies that may lead to future reusable high-speed air and space vehicles. • USAF has ceded two concept demonstration Global Hawks to NASA for Earth-monitoring research activities slated to begin in 2009. • Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee has concluded altitude qualification testing on an XF7-10 engine meant to power Japan’s new maritime patrol aircraft.
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2026 defense budget, submitted to Congress last week, accelerates the downsizing of the U.S. Air Force. It proposes divesting 340 aircraft, while only acquiring 76. These cuts risk the Air Force’s ability to prevail.
