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Given the speed and breadth of access to the Internet as well as the anonymity cyber attackers enjoy, defense agencies must constantly monitor threats rather than simply responding to attack, said Gordon Snow, the FBI’s assistant cyber director, Thursday at...

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s panel with jurisdiction over BRAC, vowed Wednesday to block any attempts this year to prepare for another round of stateside base closures. This seemingly squashes the Pentagon’s desire to...

An F-16C assigned to the 36th Fighter Squadron at Osan AB, South Korea, crashed on Wednesday near Kunsan Air Base in that country during a routine training mission, announced Kunsan officials. The pilot safely ejected before the F-16 crashed into...

Leading members of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel said Wednesday they were concerned about the future of space-related science and technology investment. For example, the Pentagon’s Fiscal 2013 budget request terminates the Air Force’s Space Test Program...

Military satellite acquisition has come a long way in the last 10 years, but there is still room for improvement, said Cristina Chaplain, a director of acquisition and sourcing management for the Government Accountability Office. Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee's strategic forces panel Wednesday, Chaplain said the watchdog organization is concerned about the 18 percent increase in the cost of the Air Force's first two Global Positioning System III satellites. "That's on our watch list," she said. She also expressed concerns about the lagging schedule of the FAB-T ground terminals that are designed to work with Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellites. "In general, though, these are very different conditions from 10 years ago," said Chaplain. "Best practices are being adopted. There is more emphasis on developing technologies before beginning a number of programs, and [the Defense Department] is instituting higher quality standards for programs and following them," she said. (Chaplain's prepared testimony)

JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii—The Hawaii Air National Guard’s 199th Fighter Squadron currently has 14 of its anticipated 20 F-22 Raptors on the ramp here. But much work remains before the unit will be fully mission-capable, Guard officials told the Daily...

Honolulu— The Aloha State is in a unique position to project US power across the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest area of operations, Hawaii National Guard officials told the Daily Report in a briefing at their headquarters here. The state...

For the first time this fiscal year, the Air Force’s active duty force, the Air National Guard, and the Air Force Reserve all met their year-to-date recruiting goals, according to the Pentagon’s latest recruiting data for Fiscal 2012 through February....

Air Mobility Command inactivated the 15th Expeditionary Mobility Task Force at Travis AFB, Calif., one day after standing down the 21st EMTF—a parallel organization at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Part of AMC’s streamlining of mobility forces, 18th Air Force is relinquishing...

The World War II emblem of the 100th Bomb Group—a four-headed eagle—now adorns the 100th Air Refueling Wing’s KC-135 flagship at RAF Mildenhall, Britain. On the unit’s 70th anniversary, airmen at Mildenhall “share a bond with the men who flew...

Royal Air Force MQ-9 Reapers recently clocked 30,000 total combat flight hours in direct support of operations in Afghanistan, according to RAF officials. “The continuing success of our Reaper operations is the result of fine collaborative work between the RAF...