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The Air Force plans to offer $20,000 signing bonuses, paid annually over four years, to entice mid-career acquisition officers to hang with the service despite the stress they are under from repeated six-month deployments. USAF has been “losing a lot”...

The job fair held last week by the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, delivered significantly more candidates than the center has positions for at this time. ASC was on the hunt for prospective mid-level acquisition, logistics, program, and...

The Air Force has declared the latest—and last of its model—Global Positioning Satellite, launched into orbit Aug. 17, to be operational, as of Aug. 27. The Lockheed Martin-built satellite, GPS IIR-21(M), joins 30 other GPS sats currently in the operational...

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley formally presented six campaign streamers to Lt. Gen. Mike Hostage, commander of Air Forces Central, and members of his command last week during a visit to Southwest Asia. DOD authorized five: Liberation of Iraq (March...

The Government Accountability Office has recommended, in an Aug. 18 decision that upheld a portion of a protest filed by Northrop Grumman Information Technology, that Air Force Space Command go through a new selection process to ascertain the ultimate winner...

The Italian Air Force for the first time participated in Green Flag, sending nearly 180 airmen and 10 AMX aircraft to Nellis AFB, Nev., for close air support training Aug. 9-20. Capt. Davide Dentemaro, an AMX pilot, praised Green Flag’s...

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he is “fighting tooth and nail to make sure that enough C-17s are produced, and that Stewart [ANG, N.Y.] gets its fair share,” reports the Times Herald-Record. A group of Senators sent a letter recently...

The first tri-service installation—Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst—is slated to become fully operational on Oct. 1. Last week, Air Mobility Command boss Gen. Arthur Lichte proclaimed the event “historic,” telling reporters, “This is the first and the only one with three services,”...

The US Air Force Academy plans to construct a new $29 million facility, beginning in March 2011, to house its Center for Character Development, which it will redesignate Center for Character and Leadership Development (CCLD). The new facility is slated...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Aug. 26, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 26 29 55 10,294 CAS/Armed Recon 22 83 105 22,882 Airlift 149 149 31,272 Air refueling 58 58 11,171 Total 367 75,619 OIF=Operation Iraqi...