Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), House Armed Services Committee chairman, called on each of the service Chiefs and combatant commanders as well as the National Guard Bureau chief to provide a list of military requirements that the President’s Fiscal 2015 budget...
The findings of the Pentagon’s internal review of the US military’s nuclear enterprise are due to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel by the end of April, according to a memorandum that Hagel issued last week. Further, Hagel asked the two retired...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ MQ-9 Reaper extended-range variant took to the skies for the first time on Feb. 12, company spokeswoman Kimberly Kasitz told the Daily Report. This configuration features two external fuel pods to increase the remotely piloted aircraft’s...
Lt. Col. Michael Schaner recently became the first Air National Guard pilot to amass 1,000 flight hours in the F-22, and the third Raptor pilot overall to achieve this feat, according to a release from JB Langley-Eustis, Va. Schaner, assistant...
Air Force Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Thomas Travis and his counterpart in the Israeli Defense Force, Brig. Gen. Yitshak Kreiss, signed an agreement to expand cooperation across the Air Force Medical Service and the IDF Medical Corps. “The IDF is...
A swarm of seven LC-130 transports is airlifting researchers and supplies back from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, as the summer research season there ends. The Skibirds are slated to make their final shuttle flights this week from McMurdo to Christchurch, New...
A defective pitch-rate controller led to the crash of a QF-4 remotely piloted aircraft at Tyndall AFB, Fla., last July, announced Air Combat Command. The airplane went down just eight seconds after takeoff on July 17, 2013, according to ACC’s...
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert said the United States would offer “help” to the Philippines in the event of a crisis in the South China Sea in which China occupied disputed territories. Further, the United States would continue...
