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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said the bipartisan budget agreement unveiled Tuesday evening by the Chairs of the House and Senate Budget Committees will allow the Air Force to restore some funds that would have been taken...

To come up with $12 billion in sequester cuts, the Air Force is making choices everyone will hate, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Wednesday during a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Welsh said he’s in...

The KC-10 is another example of a system the Air Force really wants to keep, but can’t if sequester remains in force, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Wednesday. While the KC-10 is a key capability, divesting it will...

While the bipartisan agreement on the Fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill unveiled Monday by leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee addresses sexual assaults in the US military, it does not include any of the of highly publicized...

China’s new air defense identification zone in the East China Sea is potentially dangerous, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Wednesday. “I don’t know what their logic was” in creating the zone, said Welsh during a speech...

An accident investigation board found a bird strike caused a T-38C Talon to crash outside Sheppard AFB, Tex., last summer. During the July 19 incident, the bird shattered the canopy, which then “sent fragments through the No. 2 engine, causing...

Northrop Grumman is developing new technology to allow intelligence systems to learn patterns and predict, rather than detect, threats, said Patrick Antkowiak, vice president of the company’s advanced concepts and technologies division. “Some of the best chess players in the...