The Air Force has refined its position on the nuclear capabilities of the first version of the classified Long-Range Strike Bomber. Since the program’s 2010 inception, service leaders have said the first version of LRS-B wouldn’t be fully configured for...
When airmen join the Air Force, they may do it for educational opportunities, financial stability, to find direction in life, or continue a family tradition, writes CMSAF James Cody in the latest Roll Call, released on June 11. “The reasons...
This summer, the 1st Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., will assume control of the Air Force’s two new Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites, according to an Air Force Space Command release. The Air Force plans to launch...
The F-35’s unit costs are very much at the mercy of the number built, said Lorraine Martin, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 program manager. Some 80 percent of the F-35’s price is “economic quantity” and only 20 percent, at best, are “things...
The Defense Department’s $264 billion figure badly underestimates the cost of modernizing the US nuclear deterrent over the next decade, found Government Accountability Office auditors. “GAO identified shortcomings with respect to the completeness of the budget estimates and the transparency...
B-1 bombers from Ellsworth AFB, S.D., displayed their versatility in the maritime role by dropping sea mines over Pacific Coast training ranges in a series of drills in early June. Personnel from Naval Munitions Command Seal Beach, Calif., assembled the...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel signed off on the terms of reference for the 90-day, comprehensive review of the military health system that he ordered in late May, said Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby. The review’s final recommendations are...
The three MCAS Yuma, Calif.-based F-35Bs that will perform at the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Airshow in Britain in July will transit through NAS Patuxent River, Md., not MCAS Beaufort, S.C., as we reported on June 11. Also,...
