Daily Report

With the sequestration deadline just days away, Air Force officials are once again urging Congress to consider more base realignments and closures. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said last week the Pentagon’s forthcoming Fiscal 2014 budget request, which is set...

The Senate on Tuesday is expected to vote on a procedural cloture motion that would clear the way for the vote on whether former Sen. Chuck Hagel should be the next Defense Secretary. Sixty votes are needed to invoke cloture,...

The current budget battles should not stop the Air Force from researching sixth generation fighter capabilities, Gen. Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command, told the Daily Report. “One of the things that sets us apart from any other air...

When asked how the Air Force has started to shift its focus to the Asia-Pacific region as called for in the new national defense strategy, Air Mobility Command boss Gen. Paul Selva turned the question around and asked when the...

From 2006 to early 2010, the Air Force did not have a single general officer “in any of the top 11 positions at the Pentagon,” said retired Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula, the Air Force’s former intelligence chief. Those positions included...

The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin two fixed-price contracts worth $120 million to procure long-lead-time components for the manufacture of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth Global Positioning System III navigation satellites, announced the company on Monday. “The GPS III...

An airmen whose “single act of extraordinary achievement”—either inside or outside of a combat zone—directly and significantly impacts critical combat operations may be eligible for the new Distinguished Warfare Medal, announced Air Force personnel officials. “The action must include hands-on...

Lockheed Martin hopes to get on contract with the Navy in 2014 for a derivative of its Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile and JASSM-Extended Range system called the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, according to Dick Tate, the company’s program manager for the...

Lockheed Martin displayed a model of its new Nemesis weapon at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium last week in Orlando, Fla. Company officials were not immediately ready to discuss the weapon, but industry sources knowledgeable of Nemesis said it is a...