The Space Force set a scorching new record Sept. 14 when it launched a satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., just 27 hours after receiving launch orders.
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To make the Air Force’s concept of Agile Combat Employment work across the vast reaches of the Indo-Pacific, the head of Pacific Air Forces wants to clear jungle that's overgrown World War II-era airfields while the Air Forces top special operator wants faster vertical lift ...
Lt. Gen. Robert Miller, Surgeon General for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, highlighted the need for a more unified care system across all major commands to help Airmen, Guardians, and their families locate mental health programs, physical therapy, and other medical support services. ...
With his promotion to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff likely coming soon, Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr. marked perhaps his final speech to a large Air Force audience on the job with a simple message: “If we fail to ...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. unveiled new imagery of the secretive B-21 Raider during his keynote address at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference on Sept. 12, the first glimpse of the stealthy bomber in months.
The U.S military may have only brief moments of space superiority, so it must be ready to act as a team to exploit those moments, panelists said at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference on Sept. 11.
After years of planning, experiments, and discussion, the Department of the Air Force is ready to start modernizing its command and control capabilities now, the top general overseeing the effort said Sept. 11. “The modernization of C2 isn't tomorrow, it’s today,” Brig. Gen. Luke C.G. Cropsey, ...
The Air Force will pursue five lines of effort toward a speedy restructuring of the force, aimed at optimizing for great power conflict, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said.
U.S. Strategic Command is facing “low margin transition” with its triad of air, land, and underwater nuclear forces being modernized simultaneously, officials say. ”I think we as a nation understand that it's not a ‘Should we?’ It’s a ‘We must,’” STRATCOM commander Gen. Anthony J. ...
