The Air Force may have to eliminate an entire fleet of a particular kind of aircraft—possibly all A-10s or B-1Bs—in order to live within reduced budgets if sequestration persists into Fiscal 2014 and beyond, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh...

Regardless of how much the Air Force has to shrink, it can’t do the air superiority mission with just fourth-generation fighters, no matter how “efficient” they may look on paper, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said on June 17....

At the request of the Jordanian government, the United States will leave a detachment of F-16s and Patriot missiles in Jordan once Exercise Eager Lion concludes on June 20, Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement. However, Little also...

The lack of an established budget is the biggest obstacle to executing a “smart plan” for sustaining US nuclear deterrent assets, said retired Gen. Larry Welch, senior fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses and former Chief of Staff of...

Le Bourget, France International sales of the Bell-Boeing V-22 tiltrotor aircraft could approach 100 units, said Marine Corps Col. Gregory Masiello, joint V-22 program manager, during a briefing here on Monday on the first day of the 50th Paris Air...

Le Bourget, France Lockheed Martin is preparing the business case for launching the L-100J, a new commercial freighter aircraft based on the company’s C-130J military transport, Jack Crisler, company vice president for new business in air mobility, special operations, and...

The command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance division at Robins AFB, Ga., is set to expand its role in software maintenance of the JSTARS platform, according to base officials. The new role, slated to begin in 2016, is a...

Service members and veterans with mental health concerns now have 24-hour access to online resources and specialists through the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Outreach Center, announced Defense Department officials. DCoE is a hub...