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Defense Secretary Robert Gates told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel yesterday that he is still mulling who will be in charge when the KC-X tanker competition is restarted later this year. Gates said he is in “the...

The Air Force leadership decided at last week’s Corona Top summit to make manpower changes in some of its air and space operations centers to better balance resources with requirements. According to a release Monday, the leadership also decided to...

An analysis of alternatives comparing various aircraft will be performed in the coming months, looking at platforms that could apply to the irregular warfare mission, according to Robert Day, director of IW requirements on the Air Staff. The AOA was...

Helping allies with an insurgency problem will get more attention through a beefed-up schoolhouse, Air Force Irregular Warfare requirements director Robert Day told the Daily Report Tuesday. Air Education and Training Command now teaches “building partner capacity”—teaching friendly nations how...

Normal flying operations have been temporarily suspended since Monday at midday at Vance AFB, Okla., following the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement between the base’s unionized civilian employees and their contractor CSC Applied Technologies. The contractor provides support services...

US Central Command’s “exhaustive” investigation into the controversial May 4 air strike in Afghanistan’s Farah province has shown that US forces on the ground “took great pains to limit civilian casualties” and “to target those who would attack them,” Pentagon...

New privatized housing units at Columbus AFB, Miss., will be available to members of the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, as well as perhaps civil servants and service retirees, when they become available in October. Columbus’ Commercial Dispatch...

Maj. Vikhyat Bebarta, chief of medical toxicology and a staff emergency physician with the 59th Medical Wing at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland AFB, Tex., has been recognized for his research on evaluating treatments for cyanide poisoning. He is...

Northrop Grumman announced Monday that it has delivered the initial, flight-ready integrated communications, navigation, and identification system for the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. This package is planned for use aboard the first mission systems-equipped...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaJune 7, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 19 42 6,406 CAS/Armed Recon 17 74 91 15,374 Airlift 140 140 21,571 Air refueling 47 47 7,101 Total 320 50,452...