When Sputnik Shocked the World

Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Intelligence highlights the importance of cyber and electromagnetic spectrum superiority in modern warfare at an CSIS event on March. 20. The spectrum is crucial to conducting long-range attacks and securing the narrative and information flow.

The Air Force is promising upgrades in range, stealth, schedule, cost, and number of airframes for its Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter—newly christened the F-47—compared to the F-22 aircraft it is succeeding.

If Air Force pilots come over to the Reserve at the end of their 10-year Active service commitment, chances are the service will get much more bang for its buck. Airmen making that the switch, however, is no sure thing when airlines are hiring and the process for joining the…

President Donald Trump has decided to proceed with the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet after reviewing the program and its project costs—and Boeing will build it.

The Air Force may need to extend the life of the KC-135 Stratotanker again if the pace of aerial tanker modernization remains static, Gen. John A. Lamontagne said.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman offered a vote of confidence in the ability of America’s defense base to produce space-based missile interceptors.

As the Pentagon weighs shifting billions of dollars in funding, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration plans to step up spending on offensive and defense space operations.

The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors—an oversight committee that monitors a wide swath of issues including morale, discipline, curriculum, and fiscal matters—is getting a shakeup as President Donald Trump announced five new appointments. 

Earlier this year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, launched its new Robust Quantum Sensors program. It seeks to solve fundamental engineering challenges that have hampered the transition of quantum sensing from the laboratory to the battlefield, as well as a more esoteric problem: how to get innovative…