Daily Report

The Air Force will “participate heavily” in the overall strategy review under way, said acting Secretary Lisa Disbrow, noting the review will “set the assumptions for sizing and shaping the Air Force of the future.” Disbrow said the review also...

The Air Force is “investing heavily” in legacy weapons systems in an effort to increase performance in areas such as targeting, communications, power, and survivability, said acting Secretary Lisa Disbrow during her address Friday at AWS17. “You’ll see these priorities...

The big challenge with another swing back to manpower from modernization is the effect on industry, Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Friday. Speaking to reporters at AWS17, Goldfein said he’s “very worried” about industry and its “ability to...

The revitalization of squadrons begins with “pushing decision authority down” to appropriate levels, Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David Goldfein told reporters Friday at AWS17. Goldfein said he recently met with 273 wing commanders and told them...

B-52s deployed to the Middle East recently set a record, flying 277 sorties straight without a single flight canceled due to a maintenance issue. Maj. Gen. Jay Silveria, deputy commander of Air Forces Central Command said at AWS17 B-52s are...

SpaceX’s Feb. 19 launch of a Falcon 9 rocket marked the “first launch where we’ve used an autonomous flight termination system,” Space Command chief Gen. Jay Raymond told reporters Friday at AWS17. All rockets are equipped with a flight termination...

Clarifying the Air Force’s leadership position over space operations within the joint force would simplify and accelerate the acquisitions process, Gen. John Raymond, chief of Air Force Space Command, told reporters at AWS17 Friday. While the Air Force has always...

The Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSPOC) has completed six experiments focused on defending space assets from potential adversaries, Gen. Jay Raymond, boss of Space Command, told reporters at AWS17 Friday. He said JICSPOC had wrapped up its sixth...

North Korea’s military faces a readiness issue, along with low morale across its forces, but dictator Kim Jong Un is keeping the threat level high through “asymmetric” investments, the head of Pacific Air Forces said. Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, PACAF’s chief,...

An entry in the March 3 Daily Report incorrectly identified the Air Force’s acquisition chief. Darlene Costello, is the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force (acquisition & logistics). We have corrected the original entry.

ICBM installations are potentially vulnerable to off-the-shelf unmanned aerial systems, Gen. Robin Rand, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, told reporters on March 2 at AWS17. On the question of drones, Rand told reporters, “I’m concerned because of the...