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The Pentagon is “on track” to deliver the new plan to defeat ISIS to President Donald Trump next week as required by a Jan. 28 memorandum, spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said on Tuesday. Defense Secretary James Mattis recently completed...

Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein and Acting Secretary of the Air Force Lisa Disbrow published an op-ed on the Defense One website Monday pleading with Congress to pass a full defense appropriation instead of another continuing resolution. The current...

Vice President Mike Pence sought both to assure European allies that the Trump administration is committed to the NATO alliance and to warn them that the US expects greater contributions to the common defense in a visit to Brussels Monday....

The QF-16 aerial target drone took to the skies at Holloman AFB, N.M., for the first time on Feb. 10, according to an Air Force release. QF-16s are retired F-16s modified to fly unmanned missions as full-scale target aircraft for...

Lockheed Martin’s second production-ready T-50A aircraft completed its inaugural flight Monday, according to a company press release. It flew together with the first T-50A near the Greenville, S.C., final assembly and checkout facility Lockheed built for its entry in the...

A research team from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, recently demonstrated a robotic arm intended to make aircraft maintenance more efficient and reliable. The Remote Access Nondestructive Evaluation (RANDE) system, which was developed in coordination with...

Reservists from the 507th Air Refueling Wing, based at Tinker AFB, Okla., returned on Feb. 17 and Feb. 19 from a deployment to Incirlik AB, Turkey, according to a press release. The airmen were deployed in support of Operation Inherent...

Air Education and Training Command activated its first civil service aircraft maintenance organization during a Feb. 10 ceremony at JBSA-Randolph, Texas. The 12th Maintenance Group was previously a directorate. “The Air Force organizes in wings, groups, and squadrons so everything...