Daily Report

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $489.6 billion Fiscal 2015 defense funding bill that supports most of the Air Force’s top procurement requests, but rejects the service’s request to retire the A-10 attack jets. The committee also approved $58.3 billion...

The Fiscal 2015 defense funding bill approved by Senate appropriators last week, holds the military pay raise at 1 percent, slows the growth of the basic housing allowance, and continues the Air Force’s personnel reductions. However, it bulked at reducing...

Addressing the United Nations Security Council Friday, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power gave the first detailed public remarks by a senior US official on the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17 over Ukraine on Thursday. The airliner was...

President Barack Obama on Friday called for “Russia and pro-Russia separates” to “adhere to a ceasefire” so the international community can fully investigate the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17, which was “shot down” July 18 over Ukraine killing all...

The Pentagon has stepped up criticism of Russian materiel support for separatists in Ukraine in the wake of the Malaysia Airlines flight disaster. Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby on Friday blasted Russia for providing aid to the Ukrainian rebels,...

Raytheon expects to deliver the first Family of Advanced Beyond Line of Sight Terminals (FAB-T) to the Air Force to start airborne testing “within the next month,” Scott Whatmough, company vice president of integrated communications, told Air Force Magazine. “We’ve...

Air Combat Command announced it will cut a total of 742 position, of which 680 will come from its headquarters staff, in an effort to cut overhead costs. “Although the Air Force plan calls for reductions in headquarters positions, or...

The Missile Defense Agency’s response to a congressional mandate to explain how it would improve the national missile defense system after a long series of test failures does not provide the details necessary for Congress to appraise the effectiveness of...

Pacific Air Forces is slated to kick off its seventh annual joint humanitarian assistance operation with Tonga on Monday by sending approximately 65 US service members to the country. As part of Operation Pacific Angel-Tonga, they will work alongside Tonga’s...