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The Air Force chief scientist’s office will release “Cyber Vision 2025” later this month, said Mark Maybury, chief scientist, on July 17. The roughly 80-page document—a follow-on to the recently released Energy Horizons vision paper—details the way ahead for cyberspace...

By 2025, Mark Maybury, the Air Force’s chief scientist, hopes to see a cyber elite amongst airmen. He previewed Cyber Vision 2025, the Air Force’s long-range strategy to maintain cyber superiority, at an AFA-sponsored Air Force breakfast program speech on...

Air Force leaders need to do a better job of balancing technological advances and human interaction, said CMSAF James Roy. While digital tablets, social networks, and cell phones can be invaluable, it’s important not to lose the value of plain-old...

A July 6 incident in which a Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 pilot “experienced a hypoxic symptom” in flight during a routine training sortie has a known cause: an in-flight life-support system malfunction, an Air Force official told the Daily...

The US Forest Service released two of the Air Force’s Modular Airborne Firefighting System-equipped C-130s from combating wildfires across the western United States, announced firefighting officials with the 153rd Air Expeditionary Group at Cheyenne, Wyo., on July 17. The two...

If Republicans are not willing to compromise on a “balanced and bipartisan” budget deal, no deal will get done this year, and sequestration will take effect in January, said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). “If we can’t get a good deal...

A dozen A-10s from Air Force Reserve Command’s 442nd Fighter Wing departed Whiteman AFB, Mo., en route to two weeks of live weapons training at Eielson AFB, Alaska. “The wide open spaces of Alaska will allow us to employ munitions...

An Emergency Medical Support Health Response Team from JB Langley-Eustis, Va., deployed a 22-room mobile hospital to a mountaintop in Peru to train and treat local villagers as part of a US Southern Command partner program. The 6,300-square-foot tent hospital—erected...

There are 21.8 million veterans in the United States, 20.2 million of which are males, according to the US Census Bureau’s veterans’ snapshot, issued on July 17. Some 1.3 million veterans have served in more than one war, including more...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki is pressing the Pentagon to fast-track delivery of the 18 F-16s ordered under an initial foreign military sales deal last September, reports AFP. Al Maliki “called for the acceleration” of equipping the Iraqi military...