Partners and allies have too long counted on a robust US stockpile of precision-guided munitions to be there and available when they get in a jam, and that has to change, Heidi Grant, deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for...
The State Department on Nov. 17 approved a large-scale fighter jet deal to Qatar and Kuwait, sending dozens of aircraft to the Gulf nations in deals worth more than $30 billion. Qatar will buy 72 Boeing F-15QAs with weapons and...
The Air Force is working to speed up the Foreign Military Sales process, said Heidi Grant, deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs, on Friday. Speaking at an AFA-sponsored, Air Force event in Arlington, Va., she said when...
Melvin Laird, a former Defense Secretary who led the military through the midst of the Vietnam War, died Nov. 16 at a hospital in Florida. He was 94. Laird became President Richard Nixon’s Defense Secretary in January 1969. During his...
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team met with Pentagon leadership for the first time on Friday, more than a week and a half after election day and amid a flurry of rumors about his possible Defense Secretary appointment. Pentagon spokesman Peter...
London Fifth-generation pilots will rarely, if ever, fly a training sortie that does not have a synthetic component, Air Combat Command boss Gen. Hawk Carlisle said. “That is the vision of where we’re headed, but we’ve got a ways to...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to “make space a real time operational domain, which it is not at all today,” the agency’s director said on Nov. 17. Because there “is more and more a real possibility” of...
The Air Force will save $12 million by relocating the 57th Weapons Squadron and its C-17 Weapons Instructor Course (WIC) to JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., according to a press release from Air Mobility Command. Both are currently located at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,...
The Air Force announced Thursday that Holloman AFB, N.M., is the preferred interim location for two new squadrons devoted to training F-16 pilots. The squadrons will be activated “to increase fighter pilot production as part of an effort to address...
Middle East analysts agree that the liberation of ISIS strongholds in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, are “necessary but no longer sufficient” to ultimately defeat the terrorist organization. “We have to stop imagining that once we take Mosul and Raqqa...
