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Guardsmen to Guardians: New NDAA Gives Space Force What It Wants
The Space Force is feeling the love from Congress, which approved its biggest wishes, such as converting space-oriented Air National Guard units into Space Force ones, in the compromise 2025 National Defense Authorization bill unveiled Dec. 7.
JSE: How Air Force Aims to Get More Pilots into ‘World’s Best F-35 Simulator’
The Air Force is scaling up the Joint Simulation Environment to enable large-scale mission training possible for F-35 and other combat pilots at bases all over the country and even overseas.
What’s in the New NDAA: Pay Raises, No F-22 Divestments, and … Beards?
Senate and House lawmakers released their compromise 2025 National Defense Authorization bill on Dec. 7—the proposed legislation would give a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians and prohibit the Air Force from retiring any F-15E or F-22 fighters.
Daily Report: US Launches Airstrikes on ISIS amid Upheaval in Syria
PLUS Austin on the B-21 and PACAF Boss on China’s Growing Reach
B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s Conduct Massive Anti-ISIS Airstrikes in Syria After Fall of Assad
The U.S. military conducted a punishing series of airstrikes against Islamic State militants on Dec. 8 following the sudden demise of the ruling Assad regime. U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers, F-15E Strike Eagles, and A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft conducted dozens of airstrikes against ...
‘The Baton Will Soon Be Passed’: Austin Touts B-21 Bomber as Part of Legacy
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III touted the Air Force’s B-21 Raider bomber and the military’s new command and control technologies in a major address at the Reagan National Defense Forum on the Biden administration’s legacy in national security.
PACAF Boss: As China Expands Reach of Missiles and Warplanes, US Needs ‘Inside Force’
The People’s Republic of China is expanding the range of its missiles and aircraft farther and farther beyond its shores, causing the U.S. Air Force to double down on its commitment to agile combat employment and focus on the complex logistics of a potential Indo-Pacific ...
As Space Gets More Crowded, Space Force Needs New AI Tools to Keep Up: Experts
Machine learning AI (AI/ML) is quite different from the generative AI large language models that have captured headlines and public imagination in the last two years, but it is vital to help human analysts sift through and make sense of the huge amount of data coming ...
Meet Two of the Air Force’s Newest Warrant Officers
The Air Force’s first new warrant officers in 66 years graduated Dec. 6 at a ceremony at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., the inaugural class of the new Warrant Officer Training School.
Daily Report: Global Strike Interested in CCA Escorts for Bombers
PLUS China’s Rise in the Arctic and NGAD Decision Deferred
Lockheed’s Skunk Works Gets New Boss
O.J. Sanchez, a former Air Force F-22 pilot and currently the vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s Integrated Fighter Group, will take over as head of the company’s Skunk Works advanced products unit in January. He succeeds John Clark, who is taking on ...
Global Strike Boss: CCAs May Escort Bombers After Concept Matures in Fighter Force
The Air Force Global Strike Command is considering long-range, autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft as partners for its bombers but is waiting to see how they prove out with the fighter force first, the head of the command said Dec. 5.
DOD: Russian Weakness Fuels China’s Rise in the Arctic
Russia has grown desperate because of its grinding war against Ukraine—and the People’s Republic of China has leveraged that to gain more access to the strategically vital Arctic region, where it has engaged in “unprecedented styles of collaboration” with the Russians, a top Pentagon official said ...
Air Force Defers Decision on NGAD to New Trump Administration
The Air Force is deferring decisions on the Next-Generation Air Dominance stealth fighter program to the incoming Trump Administration, the service announced. It will continue its review of the program in the meantime, as well as continue the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase being ...
Daily Report: When Will B-1 and B-2 Retire?
PLUS Space Forces Japan Activates
8th Air Force Commander: B-1 and B-2 Fleet Retirements Will Be ‘Conditions Based’
There is no set timeline for retiring the B-1 and B-2 bomber fleets, but when one is established it will be based on strategic conditions and when the B-21 is available to succeed them, the commander of 8th Air Force said Dec. 4.
2 Air Force Generals Picked to Lead New Acquisition Centers
A pair of Air Force major generals have been nominated to become three stars and the first commanders of new centers formulated as part of the service’s “Great Power Competition” changes.
Airman Development Command: Coming in 2025, Will Be ‘Foundational’ Change, Allvin Says
The Air Force has begun a sweeping overhaul of its education and training programs with the standup of new centers that will be part of the future Airman Development Command that is scheduled to come online next year, service officials said.
B-52s, F-35s Fly Live-Fire Arctic Exercise with Norway and UK
Air Force B-52 bombers dropped live ordnance on simulated enemy positions in Norway on Dec. 3 as part of a training exercise meant to hone data-sharing and targeting skills between NATO allies near the Arctic Circle.