Lockheed Martin recently unveiled its new Legion Pod—a multi-function sensor system designed to be highly collaborative across platforms. The pod is available to support the F-15C’s infrared search and track capabilities, but also was built to be highly adaptable to...
The Air Force is working to “reset” its thinking in three areas of space operations, said Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh during his address at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., last week. The first is the discussion...
The Air Force is the smallest it’s been since its inception in 1947, said Secretary Deborah Lee James at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., last week. During Desert Storm/Desert Shield in 1990, the Air Force had 188 fighter...
It’s easy to get lost in talk of technology and weapons systems and even budgets and sequestration, but CMSAF James Cody reminded the crowd at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 12 that airmen are still the biggest...
Reservists will play a key part in the Air Force’s commitment to ramping up its cyber and ISR operations in Fiscal 2015 and beyond, Air Force Reserve chief Lt. Gen. JJ Jackson told an audience at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium...
Though the Air Force has continually reinforced its commitment to eliminating its reliance on the Russian-made RD-180 engine for space launches, Air Force Space Command boss Gen. John Hyten said he is not confident the process towards finding a replacement...
The Air Force is shifting its thinking about space as a warfighting domain. Air Force Space Command boss Gen. John Hyten said during AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando last week, that while the barriers to access in space help...
The Air Force is going to conduct a review of its process to certify new space launch vehicle providers to carry military and intelligence community satellites into orbit, announced Secretary Deborah Lee James in her State of the Air Force...
The Air Force is in the process of standing up a new Profession of Arms Center of Excellence at Air Education and Training Command, said Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando on Thursday....
CMSAF James Cody said he worries about the cost airmen are paying to achieve the mission set before them. “What I worry about every night is that email that is going to come in at 1:00 in the morning, that...
US military involvement in Operation United Assistance—the international Ebola relief effort—is coming to an end. More than four months since the beginning of continuous airlift support to Liberia and Senegal, airmen—along with other US service members—are returning home. “No military...
The Air Force has requested $380.1 million in its Fiscal 2016 budget for the Global Positioning System III program, including $199.2 million for procurement and $180.9 million for continued research, development, testing, and evaluation. That does not, however, include funding...
The Air Force is eying Fiscal 2020 for the launch of the follow-on satellite that would replace the Space Based Space Surveillance Block 10 spacecraft operating? on orbit today, said Maj. Gen. Martin Whelan, the Air Staff’s space operations chief....
The Air Force is committed to eliminating its reliance on the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine, said Maj. Gen. Martin Whelan, director of space operations on the Air Staff. “We will fully embrace the need to develop a domestic alternative rocket...
The Air Force will open three national security space launches to competition in Fiscal 2016 and three in Fiscal 2017. By Fiscal 2018 all 18 planned national security space launches will be open to competition, Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, director...
The Air Force Wednesday celebrated the service contributions of 24 exceptional airmen during the ninth Portraits in Courage ceremony in Arlington, Va. With airmen ranging from EOD techs to aviators to a fuel specialist and a paralegal, CMSAF James Cody...
Congress will not budget for another Base Realignment and Closure, said Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower and projection forces panel, on Tuesday. The President’s Fiscal 2016 budget request, released Feb. 2, once again...
If the US is preparing for a Pacific pivot, it is sending the wrong message to allies in the wrong region, said Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower and projection forces subcommittee. Speaking with...
The President’s Fiscal 2016 budget request, which was released Feb. 2, has a lot of good priorities, but there is no way all will be possible in the current climate, Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) told reporters in Washington, D.C., on...
The Defense Department is too conservative in its acquisitions strategy, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Frank Kendall told House legislators. “I think we’re not taking enough risk,” said Kendall during a Jan. 28 House Armed Services Committee...