Air Force SSgt. Taylor Bechtol, a 90th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew chief, loosens the straps on a GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition during the quarterly load competition at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on Oct. 26, 2018. Air Force photo...
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A U-28A crewmember assigned to Hurlburt Field, Fla., gives the thumbs up as he taxis past C-130Js to to the runway for take-off on Sept. 12, 2017, at Little Rock AFB, Ark. Air Force photo by SSgt. Jeremy McGuffin. The...
Raytheon is proposing its new Peregrine missile as a complement to the AIM-120 and AIM-9X in the air-to-air role. The missile would be half the size and weight of the previous missiles, but with more range, increasing the number of...
TSgt. Daniel Keller, a combat controller in the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, will receive the Air Force Cross on Sept. 13, 2019, for his actions on a battlefield in Afghanistan. Air National Guard photo by MSgt....
Devaki Raj, CEO and Founder at CrowdAI, pitches her product to a crowd of small businesses, venture capitalists, and airmen during the inaugural Air Force Pitch Day in New York on March 7, 2019. Raj was awarded a same-day contract...
The Air Force may soon welcome its third consecutive female secretary at a time when the nation has yet to see a woman as Army or Navy secretary or as secretary of defense. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold...
Katie Arrington, the newly minted chief information security officer for the assistant defense secretary for acquisition, speaks at the 10th annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit on Sept. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Billington Summit courtesy photo by Nathan Mitchell. Bidders for...
Maj. Gen. John Shaw, deputy commander of Air Force Space Command, speaks about intelligence for the space domain at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association/Intelligence and National Security Alliance conference Sept. 5, 2019. National Reconnaissance Office photo via Twitter....
Air Force SSgt. William Urquhart, 755th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion, inspects an EC-130H Compass Call engine during Aviation Rotation 19-2 at Krzesiny AB, Poland, on June 13, 2019. Air Force photo by SSgt. Jonathan Snyder. The Air Force’s EC-130H...