Boeing on Thursday delivered the Air Force’s 223rd C-17 transport, completing the service’s production order some 20 years after the first delivery. “Thank you for delivering to our nation combat airlift—that is the definition of the C-17—the most versatile, most...

Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed directly to the American people this week through a New York Times opinion piece in which he urged the United States not to strike Syria and instead seek a diplomatic solution. Putin said bypassing the...

MSgt. Andre S. Davis, a unit education training manager with the Virginia Air National Guard’s 203rd RED HORSE Squadron at Camp Pendleton, Va., is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013. His attention to...

Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh has reassigned Maj. Gen. Steven Kwast, who’s led the Air Force’s Quadrennial Defense Review office since January, to command the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education at Maxwell AFB, Ala., announced...

MSgt. Tessa M. Fontaine, a superintendent for counterintelligence and cyber inquiries in the National Reconnaissance Office’s Counterintelligence Division in Chantilly, Va., is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013. Fontaine is a security forces...

Maj. Gen. Frederick Martin assumed command of the Air Force Expeditionary Center at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., this week. Gen. Paul Selva, head of Air Mobility Command, presided over the Sept. 9 change-of command ceremony, according to McGuire’s Sept. 11 release....

The Netherlands recently became the second international partner, after Canada, to communicate using the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite system, announced prime contractor Lockheed Martin on Sept. 12. Dutch military forces exchanged voice and data communications with US...

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon completed the first launch-readiness exercise for the Air Force’s next-generation GPS III satellites, according to a Lockheed Martin release. “Completion of our first GPS III launch-readiness exercise is a major milestone for the entire GPS enterprise...