The Air Force is going to significantly change the way it trains, develops, and leads its ICBM force, Air Force Global Strike Command boss Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson said. Although the standards will remain high, perfection will no longer be...
The Air Force is reallocating millions of dollars to improve facilities and quality of life for airmen assigned to its ICBM wings in an effort to put its “money where our mouth is” and to demonstrate the importance of the...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will convene the first US-hosted gathering of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ defense ministers in Honolulu, Hawaii, this week, making good on his promise during last June’s Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore. The meeting, known...
Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said he firmly believes the $550 million per copy flyaway cost for the Air Force’s Long-Range Strike Bomber is realistic, and that the service will labor to make that pricetag a reality by ruling...
The North Atlantic Council appointed former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to be the Alliance’s next Secretary General, effective Oct. 1. He will replace Anders Fogh Rasmussen who has served in the position since 2009, according to a March 28...
Planners recently launched the search for a New JSTARS ground surveillance aircraft to replace the Air Force’s legacy E-8C fleet. A team at Hanscom AFB, Mass., began risk analysis and research into business jet sized aircraft as well as radar...
The Air Defense Identification Zone that China declared last November, which spans the waters off its eastern periphery, hasn’t much affected US or other-nation operations in the area, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said. Speaking at a...
Approximately Eight B-52 bombers from Minot AFB, N.D., will spend the next six months at Ellsworth AFB, S.D., while engineers at Minot complete a runway overhaul. More than 300 flight crew and support personnel from Minot also deployed to support...
