The Air Force announced yesterday that Barksdale AFB, La., is the preferred site for the permanent headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command, the service’s new nuclear-centric major command that will oversee its nuclear-capable bomber and ICBM forces. Barksdale was...

One of the Air Force’s leading space situational awareness projects, the space based space surveillance satellite, is complete and is now ready to ship to the launch site, Gary Payton, the Air Force’s deputy undersecretary for space programs, said Thursday....

The Air Force will have a window of time Friday evening to place its second wideband global satcom satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., Gary Payton, USAF’s civilian lead for space, told reporters Thursday. The Air Force had...

An Air Force Joint STARS ground-surveillance aircraft deployed to Southwest Asia has incurred structural damage, the Daily Report has learned. In fact, one informed source characterized this damage as “major.” We don’t know the details, as the Air Force is...

What has been pending for at least one year has finally happened: The Air Force has awarded Raytheon a contract to supply a new variant of the laser-guided AGM-65 Maverick air-to-ground missile, the company announced yesterday. This new version, dubbed...

Boeing announced last week that it has delivered the newest upgrade to the Air Force’s F-15E mission training centers at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., and RAF Lakenheath in Britain. The upgrade, Suite 5, brings the realistic,...

More than 55 Air Force personnel are part of the US military entourage aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort that left late last month on a four-month deployment to ports of call in Latin America and the Caribbean as part...

The Defense Department announced yesterday that the remains of Lt. Col. Earl P. Hopper Jr., an F-4D Phantom pilot missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and returned to his family. Hopper’s F-4D was shot down by...

French fry grease could be seeping its way into the fuel tanks of the Air Force’s high-performance aircraft fleet if DARPA-sponsored biofuels research proves successful. The Pentagon’s advanced research shop is investigating the feasibility of converting that grease, along with...

The “new” National Atomic Museum, now known as the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, opens its doors to the public Saturday at its new location in Albuquerque, N.M, according to a release by the Albuquerque Convention & Visitors...

March 31, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 29 8 37 3,505 CAS/Armed Recon 24 71 95 8,911 Airlift 130 130 11,940 Air refueling 48 48 4,075 Total 310 28,431 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...