An Air Force official has told Dow Jones Newswires that the service’s plan to become the lead agent for higher-flying unmanned aerial vehicles could save DOD some $1.7 billion over the next six years. Rebecca Christie reports that USAF’s technical...

Among issues the head of the House Armed Service Committee, Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), says are “overdue” for consideration is a re-evaluation of roles and missions of each of the services so that they are “properly postured to provide the full...

Air Force Reserve Command’s 555th RED HORSE combat engineers and their active duty cohorts, the 820th RED HORSE, both assigned to Nellis AFB, Nev., have started on a six-month deployment to Balad AB, Iraq. It’s the first time the 555th...

The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey fleet surpassed 25,000 flight hours on March 9, when a crew from the first Osprey student class at the 71st Special Operations Squadron at Kirtland AFB, N.M. flew a two-hour qualification flight, according to Bell-Boeing officials...

Air Force special operators at the 8th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., will get a fourth initial operational test & evaluation CV-22 Osprey soon and will continue testing activities at Hurlburt and in New Mexico and eventually Alaska. Initially...

Marine Corps Col. Matt Mulhern, head of the V-22 Osprey program at NAS Patuxent River, Md., told reporters in Washington Wednesday that he expects DOD and Marine Corps leadership to sign off on an overseas deployment for the MV-22 as...

The 11th Air Force met last week with civil aviation officials in Alaska to chart a new airspace use standard now that Pacific Air Forces has expanded training exercises being run out of Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force Bases to...

Those are the words of one 25-year federal employee, Vicki Faggiano, who said an offer by Pennsylvania state agencies to help Air Force Reserve Command employees at Willow Grove, Pa., find new employment, according to a report by The Morning...

The maker of the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet would like to convince the Navy that its should buy more of the E/F models of the Hornet to fill its shortage of carrier strike aircraft until the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter...

A civil rescue helicopter crew called for help from the 55th Rescue Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., when it couldn’t reach a stranded and injured teenage hiker. The airmen were preparing for a night training sortie when they got the...

April 1-2, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 17 9 26 CAS/Armed Recon 114 67 181 Airlift 311 311 Air refueling 66 66 Total 131 76 377 584 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance