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Russia’s threat of refusing to provide its powerful RD-180 rocket engine could endanger the assured access to space that is critical to America’s national security and economy, cautioned high-level defense and NASA officials, as well as a bipartisan coalition of...

House lawmakers appeared skeptical of the Obama Administration’s Fiscal 2015 overseas contingency operations request during a testy hearing with senior Defense Department officials Wednesday. The $58.6 billion request funds a range of activities from supporting operations in Afghanistan to a...

The Fiscal 2015 overseas contingency operations request offers more details into the Obama Administration’s “European Reassurance Initiative,” which looks to increase activity in Europe in the wake of the recent crisis in Crimea. Approximately $925 million of $1 billion slated...

Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) said the European Reassurance Initiative should include a similar amount of funding to reassure Asia-Pacific allies confronting an increasingly accretive China. Forbes, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower and projection forces panel, spoke at...

House Armed Services Committee members from both sides of the aisle questioned the need for President Barack Obama’s $5 billion “Counter Terrorism Partnership Fund” on Wednesday. The formal request was included in the overseas contingency operations request delivered this week,...

The Air Force Reserve Command’s 47th Fighter Squadron won the biennial A-10 competition at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., according to a July 16 release. The 47th FS competed against 13 other A-10 teams. Dubbed the Hawgsmoke, a nod to the discontinued...

The Air Force plans to outline its science and technology priorities to members of industry and academia during the “Wright Dialogues” at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, July 22-24. Maj. Gen. Thomas Masiello, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Lt....

The Air Force announced the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2014. They include, SMSgt. Boston Alexander, Air Force District of Washington; TSgt. Latoria Ellis, Air Education and Training Command; SrA. Aaron Feliciano, Air Combat Command; TSgt. Ryan Gangadeen,...