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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed retired Marine Corps Col. Robert Work to serve as deputy secretary of defense, announced the Center for a New American Security, where he currently serves as chief executive officer. Before he joined CNAS in 2013,...

The House Armed Services Committee’s panel on tactical air and land forces wants the US Comptroller General to file an annual report to Congress on the F-35 strike fighter program’s costs. The language is contained in the panel’s mark-up, released...

Despite the criticism levied at the Air Force over the planned retirement of the A-10, the House Armed Services Committee’s tactical air and land forces panel made no mention of the divestiture in its mark-up of the Fiscal 2015 defense...

Orbital Sciences Corporation and Alliant Techsystems are merging their aerospace and defense business forming Orbital ATK in a $5 billion merger deal, the companies announced. “The proposed merger will generate cost and revenue synergies and create a more streamlined and...

Although the Defense Department continues to grow its cyber workforce, the “capacity for training in a realistic environment has not kept pace,” according to the House Armed Services Committee’s intelligence, emerging threats, and capabilities panel’s mark-up of the Fiscal 2015...

The House Armed Services Committee’s budget mark-up put back the aircraft carrier the Administration wants to delete, but funding an air wing for it remains an open question, said Rep. Randy Forbes, chair of the seapower and projection forces panel....

Defense contractors reported a 2.6 percent decline in revenue in 2013, due mostly to sequestration and the ongoing drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, according to a Deloitte analysis. Seventeen of the top 20 defense contractors saw a decline in revenue,...

“Grave Digger,” a 27th Special Operations Wing AC-130H gunship rolled off the flightline at Cannon AFB, N.M., directly to a retirement job on display in the base’s air park earlier this month. “The maintenance and civil engineer airmen made this...

The inaugural issue of AFA’s new publication, Wingman Magazine, is now available online, as of May 1, and will hit your mailbox in the coming days in print form, bundled with Air Force Magazine’s May almanac. Click here to access...