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The Air Force’s KC-46A tanker program is “on cost and on schedule,” and is “in a real healthy place,” said Acting Secretary Eric Fanning on Monday. “Everything is coming together really well,” he said in a Sept. 9 interview with...

Northrop Grumman’s family of Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft has reached 100,000 flight hours, announced the company on Monday. Air Force Global Hawks amassed more than 88 percent of these hours, states the company’s Sept. 9 release. NASA...

A cyber transport craftsman with the 3rd Combat Camera Squadron ?at JBSA-Lackland, Tex., TSgt. Adam L. Gomez is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013. On a 12-month deployment to Afghanistan, Gomez led cyber...

Mobility airmen at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, finished the air leg of a multi-modal equipment swap-out between the Army’s 1st Combat Aviation Brigade and 3rd CAB, according to a Kandahar release. During the nearly three-week effort in August, C-5As from JBSA-Lackland,...

A B-1 bomber from Dyess AFB, Tex., released a Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile prototype off the coast of southern California, announced DARPA. The Aug. 27 test was the first free flight of the LRASM design, according to the agency’s Sept. 6...

A1C Timothy Pledger, an electronic warfare journeyman with the 20th Aircraft Maintenance Unit at Barksdale AFB, La., delivered his daughter and then deployed overseas on the same day, according to a base release. Pledger was scheduled to depart on a...

The Defense Department did not base its decision in January to keep US Africa Command’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, on a comprehensive and well-documented analysis that balanced the operational and cost benefits of the various beddown options, according to Government...

Originally designed for integration on the A-10, the electronics suite that Raytheon is maturing for DARPA to improve close-air-support coordination is now meant to be platform- and sensor-agnostic and compatible with multiple aircraft, announced the company on Monday. The Raytheon-led...