President Obama intends to nominate CIA Director Leon Panetta to be the next Defense Secretary and Army Gen. David Petraeus to take over for Panetta at the intelligence agency, according to press reports. Petraeus currently commands US and NATO forces...
A tornado struck Little Rock AFB, late Monday, injuring three people, battering three C-130s, and damaging more than 40 homes, base spokesman SrA. Jim Araos told the Daily Report. All three people suffered only minor injuries and have received medical...
The Air Force is dedicated to finding a “long-term vision” with its African partners, while working on a short-term solution to the string of instability and violence that spread throughout the African continent in recent months, said Chief of Staff...
NATO has announced the first series of attacks by armed US Predator remotely piloted aircraft in Libya against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s forces. Both occurred on April 23. In the first strike, a Predator, which carries two Hellfire air-to-surface missiles,...
The DARPA-developed Space Surveillance Telescope has collected its first images of deep space, the agency announced. The sophisticated telescope, now in its demonstration phase, is designed to offer an unprecedented wide-angle view of deep space and detect dim objects that...
About 60 airmen are gathered with 150 Congolese military personnel in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, for the start of MEDLITE 2011, a two-week, 17th Air Force (Air Forces Africa)-sponsored medical exercise focusing on aeromedical evacuation. The exercise consists...
Air Mobility Command has launched a new energy conservation website to highlight energy and fuel efficiency initiatives throughout the command. “Through a myriad of efforts, Air Mobility Command is doing its part to save the Air Force millions of dollars...
Hundreds of US troops, Iraqi airmen, and dignitaries attended the opening celebration of the new $9 million Iraqi air operations center at Hawk Base in Baghdad. “This new facility will provide the space and enable the technology needed to produce...
The five surviving members of the Doolittle Raid gathered earlier this month in Nebraska for the raider’s annual reunion on the eve of the raid’s 69th anniversary. These airmen have come together every year since 1947 to commemorate their daring...
Boeing on Tuesday broke ground in Oklahoma City, Okla., on the new building that will house the company’s B-1 bomber program and C-130 Avionics Modernization Program offices. The six-story facility, which the company will lease, will have 320,000 square feet...
