Daily Report

If the next Administration wants to continue with F-22 production, it has until March 2009 to make a stable funding commitment before costs really begin to rise, says the Air Force’s top uniformed acquisition official. The outgoing Administration failed to...

The Air Force Research Lab has moved back the launch date of its tactical satellite-3 until January to fix an issue with the spacecraft’s star tracker so that it will be able to position itself correctly once on orbit. Thom...

Air Force Special Operations Command’s 1st Special Operations Maintenance Group at Hurlburt Field, Fla., received the Phoenix Award, the Department of Defense’s highest field-level maintenance honor during a ceremony Oct. 29 in Denver. According to a DOD release from Oct....

More than 50 medics from Air Force Reserve units in Arizona, Massachusetts, and New York took part in medical refresher training and mock drills in operating a contingency aeromedical staging facility during a visit to Kunsan AB, South Korea, from...

The Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $147 million contract for additional Sniper advanced targeting pods, the company announced yesterday. USAF has been using the sophisticated pods in combat in Southwest Asia since January 2005. They currently are carried...

Yesterday, Raytheon announced receipt of a $5.7 million USAF contract to upgrade software on the TV-guided variant of the Maverick air-to-surface missile. Col. Eric Theisen, Air Combat Command’s advanced programs division chief, said these software modifications will improve the pilot’s...

Maj. Douglas A. Gimlich was named recipient of the second place individual award in the Pentagon’s 2008 chief information officer awards program, and Lt. Col. Angela J. Burth received third place honors, the Department of Defense announced Oct. 31. Gimlich...

The remains of Army Air Forces SSgt. Martin F. Troy of Norwalk, Conn, missing since 1944, have been identified, the Department of Defense announced yesterday. Troy was part of the 10-member crew of a B-24H Liberator bomber that was shot...

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-sponsored scientists are exploring ways to prevent spinning acoustic waves from building up on the inside of jet engines and rocket motors and having destructive effect on these propulsion systems. A team, led by Dr....

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaOct. 31 – Nov. 1, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 59 24 83 11,159 CAS/Armed Recon 96 116 212 31,435 Airlift 280 280 39,722 Air refueling 93 93 15,465...