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Delegations from the United States and Russia met on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, to begin the first session of the Bilateral Consultative Commission, the implementation body for the New START arms control treaty. The two countries “will coordinate and discuss...

Air Force A-10 ground-attack platforms and AC-130 gunships have begun to support coalition air operations in Libya, said Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, Joint Staff director, Monday. “We have employed A-10s and AC-130s over the weekend,” he told reporters in the...

GEO-1, the first Space Based Infrared System satellite, has completed its final major pre-launch test, Air Force space officials announced Monday. This regression test, held at various locations in Colorado and California, demonstrated the ability to transmit data between the...

The Air Force will hold not one, but two undergraduate flying training boards in Fiscal 2011, service officials announced Monday. The additional board will be held in July at Randolph AFB, Tex., they said. It will help to balance the...

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, and CMSAF James Roy have sent a message to airmen saying they are committed "to eliminating sexual assault" from the service. "Sexual assault is a crime, and there is no place for this behavior in our Air Force. We demand better of ourselves," they wrote in their letter to airmen. Although the Defense Department conducts its own sexual assault study every year, USAF contracted the Gallup polling company to conduct an anonymous survey to get a better idea of the magnitude of the problem. Gallup found that in the 12 months prior to its survey, 2,143 female airmen (3.4 percent) and 1,355 male airmen (0.5 percent) believed that they had been sexually assaulted, a significant spike compared to the 585 sexual assaults officially reported in the Air Force in Fiscal 2010. (SAF/PA release) (Gallup report; caution, large file)

Aircraft mechanics at Robins AFB, Ga., modified a 42-year-old C-5A transport so that pilots could safely fly it from the base’s depot to Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., to enter retirement in the service’s aircraft boneyard. The C-5 had been sitting at...

Airmen at McConnell AFB, Kan., on Monday began to undergo a mock on-site inspection like those mandated under the Chemical Weapons Convention. This exercise is the first base-wide event of its kind for Air Mobility Command. It is meant to...

Northrop Grumman has submitted its final proposal for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance system, which is meant to provide the alliance with theater-wide, overhead intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance capabilities. “The updated proposal offers an affordable, executable program that will provide an operationally relevant...

Negotiations between the United States and Turkey over Turkish plans to procure some 100 F-35 strike fighters have stalled because the United States refuses to share the source code for the aircraft’s software, reports UPI. Possessing the source code would...