The Air Force and Space Force budgets call for nearly $2.3 billion in spending cuts in 2026, including funding for more than 5,700 full-time civilian jobs, linked to the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, an Air & Space Forces Magazine analysis has found.
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The Space Force revealed new details about its plan for part-time Guardians—and they aren't like anything the military has seen before. Part-time service will be episodic, lasting for a tour or two, Space Force officials say, a complete shift from the classic one-weekend-a-month, two-weeks-a-year Guard ...
The Space Force hopes to celebrate a pair of major milestones with a single mission Aug. 12: its first launch with the new Vulcan Centaur rocket, and the first launch of an experimental navigation satellite in nearly 50 years.
Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb attack on Russian air bases is causing the Pentagon to revise its approach to air and homeland defense.
In late June, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman’s official portrait got a slight update: his space operations badge, given to Guardians in the space ops career field, vanished. That wasn’t an oversight, Lt. Gen. DeAnna M. Burt, the Space Force’s chief operations officer, ...
The Space Force will finish an analysis of alternatives for how to do airborne moving target indication from orbit this fall and rely upon early lessons learned from its still new effort to target objects on the ground as it forges ahead, the service’s chief operations ...
The Space Force has a new No. 2 officer, and U.S. Africa Command has its first ever leader from the Air Force. The Senate voted to confirm Lt. Gen. Shawn W. Bratton as Vice Chief of Space Operations and Air Force Lt. Gen. Dagvin Anderson as commander ...
The Space Force's neighborhood watch-style initiative to share information with the private sector about threats to space assets will eventually grow to include classified intelligence, the general in charge said last week.
Senators this week advanced a $852 billion defense spending bill for 2026 that would block cancellation of the Air Force’s E-7 early-warning aircraft program, continue military aid to Ukraine, and replenish U.S. weapons stockpiles in a rebuke of certain Trump administration priorities in the year ...
