Starting on Tuesday, Air Force trainees entering basic military training at JBSA-Lackland, Texas, will take part in a new, character-focused Capstone Week as part of their eight-and-a-half-weeks of BMT instruction, announced Air Education and Training Command. The five days of...

During his state visit to India, President Barack Obama unveiled a series of bilateral agreements with the Indian government, including defense and security initiatives. In a joint statement released on Jan. 25, Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted...

The projected cost of operating, maintaining, and modernizing US nuclear forces between 2015 and 2024 is $348 billion, or about $35 billion per year over that period, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That number includes Defense Department and Energy...

As a sign of the growing importance of cyber security, the Air Force earlier this month stood up the 690th Cyberspace Operations Squadron at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, according to a base release. The squadron’s activation followed the inactivation of...

Some 80 airmen and three C-130Hs from the 36th Airlift Squadron at Yokota AB, Japan, deployed to Bangladesh to train with their Bangladeshi counterparts in Exercise Cope South 15, announced Pacific Air Forces on Monday. The exercise began on Jan....

The Air Force lost an MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft in a crash last year near Kandahar AB, Afghanistan, due to engine failure, announced Air Combat Command on Monday. The Predator was on an information-gathering mission on July 14, 2014,...

DARPA is interested in improving collaborative autonomy so that groups of remotely piloted aircraft could work together under a single human’s supervision, announced the agency. Under the Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment, or CODE, program, DARPA seeks to develop algorithms...

The first F-35C built for the Marine Corps touched down at Eglin AFB, Fla., where it will join a Navy unit for training pilots of the carrier-optimized variant of the strike fighter, according to a base release. The airplane arrived...

The Netherlands this week will conclude its mission of protecting southwestern Turkish airspace with two Patriot missile batteries stationed near Incirlik Air Base, according to a base release. Replacing the Dutch personnel and hardware will be members of the Spanish...