Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today he is not predisposed toward any one particular option for Air Force tanker recapitalization such as a split buy or a winner-take-all approach. Instead, he said he...

The Air National Guard has been “clearly … overused,” Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Tuesday. Speaking with the Defense Writers Group in Washington, D. C., Levin said he hasn’t had a chance to...

Air Force senior leaders during the latest Corona South, which was held March 27-28 at Bolling AFB, D.C., received briefings—and provided feedback—on a number of topical issues, including the status of the service’s now six-months-old nuclear enterprise roadmap. Air Force...

The commander of 9th Air Force/Air Forces Central, Lt. Gen. Gary North, on March 30 placed a new guidon in the hands of Col. James Thomas as the first commander of the newly formed 504th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group,...

That reportedly is the sentiment being expressed by Bay County officials in Florida who want the Air Force to consider Tyndall Air Force Base as a potential alternative site to Eglin Air Force Base for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter...

Air Force Space Command will lose about 3,000 slots as it divests itself of its ICBM mission and absorbs the growing cyberwarfare role, taking on the new 24th Air Force, the service’s new cyberspace central. The Air Force is placing...

During his confirmation hearing last week, proposed Pentagon weapons czar Ashton Carter assured lawmakers that he intends to “take very seriously” the matter of the “competence and size” of the military acquisition force. Carter said an acquisition system can look...

The Air Force Technical Applications Center at Patrick AFB, Fla., sent a four-person maintenance team to Antarctica last fall to repair a seismic sensor, part of the global network known as the US Atomic Energy Detection System that fulfills AFTAC’s...

Lockheed Martin announced March 30 that it expects to develop a “more efficient and reliable process for space vehicle component and flight software integration through its newly established Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL). The lab, located at the Lockheed Martin...

March 28, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 24 13 37 3,424 CAS/Armed Recon 23 75 98 8,604 Airlift 125 125 11,540 Air refueling 37 37 3,943 Total 297 27,511 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...