We quoted the new head of Air Mobility Command, Gen. Duncan McNabb, in the Friday Daily Report, saying the military needs more C-17 and C-130 airlifters, as well as a light cargo theater aircraft. According to the Los Angeles Times,...

Various news reports proclaim that an internal memo from Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England to the military services direct them to deliver proposals to cut weapons acquisition programs. The target is $32 billion across 2007-11. And that may not...

The Air Force’s second CV-22 Osprey has arrived at Edwards AFB, Calif., two months earlier than the contract due date. A third Osprey will join No. 2 and No. 1—now undergoing electromagnetic testing at NAS Patuxent River, Md.,—at Edwards in...

The new Air Force Secretary, Michael W. Wynne, didn’t just cut and run after being sworn into office at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. He stayed for lunch with cadets in the academy’s Mitchell Hall, where he...

Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland AFB, N.M., achieved a space milestone when a 220-pound microsatellite came as close as 500 meters of the upper stage of a Minotaur I launch vehicle. The event bodes well for...

Air Force Space Command officials said that technicians had powered down the equipment for Satellite Operations Center-52 at Onizuka AFS, Calif. SOC-52 had provided 36 years of 24-hour space support. The SOC-52’s final mission took place on Feb. 14, 2004,...

The French Air Force completed three months of flying support and combat sorties for Operation Enduring Freedom and for the International Security assistance force in Afghanistan on Nov. 4, according to US Central Air Forces officials. The French flew more...

Ken Krieg, the DOD acquisition czar, has told lawmakers that the Pentagon would decide by mid December the fate of the Space-Based Infrared Radar System High program. The SIBRS High satellite program has been under review since August, when the...

Air Force civil engineers at Bagram AB, Afghanistan, have made more than 200 repairs on the base’s Soviet-era runway in the last two months—trying to keep it operational until a new runway gets finished. (DR, 09/20/05) A nine-man spall-repair team...

The Pentagon hopes to build on a good thing—the long-running bi-national North American Aerospace Defense Command—so has established the Bi-National Planning Group to determine whether it’s conceivable to create other such compacts with Canada. The goal: to reduce the red...

Sixty years after serving in the Army Air Corps 7th Fighter Squadron, former 1st Lt. James Costley has received the last of his military decorations. Costley was a P-38 Lightning pilot in the Pacific theater, where he earned a Distinguished...

The troubles surrounding the 2006 defense authorization bill may signal an end to extension of Tricare Reserve Select to all drilling Guard and Reserve members, at least for this year. With the Senate bill so late coming to a vote, pressure is on to get it passed, into conference with the House, and approved before the temporary spending bill runs out Nov. 18. There is the rub. Although the Senate authorization bill includes a provision for full TRS, a similar measure was pulled from the House bill, so it could face a tough sell in a time-driven conference. And, the Administration has always been cold to the idea. (Read our coverage here.)

USAF has two airmen at Bagram AB, Afghanistan, who sew things that help keep A-10 Warthog pilots safe. Deployed from Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., SSgt. Andrew Topor and SrA. Adam Hatch, both survival equipment technicians, assemble everything thing A-10 drivers need...

Space Command Needs a Few of You: Air Force Space Command has the welcome sign out for company grade officers in the 1997 to 2000 year groups—if they want to train as space or missile officers. Officials say the command...

November 3, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 10 7 – 17 CAS/Armed Recon 35 20 – 55 Airlift – – 160 160 Air refueling – – 31 31 Total 45 27 191 263 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...