The Air Force is mulling suggestions put forth by the Council of Governors several weeks ago that would modify some of the proposed force structure changes regarding the Air National Guard in the service’s Fiscal 2013 budget request, said the...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Wednesday she is concerned about the ability of commercial providers of space launch boosters to enter the market for national security space launches. During Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel on Air...
Pentagon officials said a vehicle fire at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, on Wednesday appeared “to be unrelated” to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit. Initial press reports claimed that the driver of the vehicle may have intended to attack Panetta when the...
The 9th Airlift Squadron at Dover AFB, Del., became the first all-C-5M Super Galaxy squadron in the Air Force after flying its last C-5B sortie. The C-5B—aircraft No. 86-0020—arrived home to Dover on Monday from a mission to the Middle...
MC-12 Liberty reconnaissance aircraft are participating for the first time in a Red Flag exercise—iteration RF 12-3 that runs through Friday at Nellis AFB, Nev.—supporting air-to-ground scenarios alongside other US and allied aircraft. The 489th Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale AFB,...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking industry input for its Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements program. Dubbed “SeeMe,” the newly announced initiative aims to give mobile individual US ground troops what they currently don’t have—access to on-demand,...
An MQ-1B Predator of the Texas Air National Guard’s 147th Reconnaissance Wing recently flew the first sortie from the unit’s newly assigned operating location on Ft. Polk Army Airfield, La. Since the wing relinquished its F-16 flying mission in 2008,...
The 58th Special Operations Wing at Kirtland AFB, N.M., welcomed its second new-build MC-130J Combat Shadow II aircraft. Gen. Edward Rice, head of Air Education and Training Command, accepted delivery of aircraft No. 5682 for the training unit on Tuesday....
