The top marine wants to know what’s going to happen to the military’s electronic warfare capability—since the Air Force has backed off the B-52 standoff jammer and the Navy’s EA-18G Growler is really only an interim fix for the soon-to-retire...

Marine Corps Gen. Michael Hagee told reporters in Washington today that progress via the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System is moving too slowly. He stopped short of criticizing the JCIDS concept, but said, “The process … would I like...

Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne issued a new “Letter to Airmen” this week, offering his “thoughts” as part of an “ongoing process” to focus on USAF’s core values. On “Integrity First,” he writes, “We build and strengthen our character through the daily exercise of words, actions, and decisions.” Wynne believes that “Service Before Self” means airmen must make above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty “the rule” of their service “not the exception.” He suggests that “Excellence in All We Do” implies that airmen must live up to the Air Force heritage. And, finally, he enjoins airmen to “maintain the moral high ground.”

According to the Commerce Department, the Pentagon plan to curtail production of USAF C-17s at 180 aircraft and store equipment and tooling would drain about $8.4 billion from the national economy—not just Long Beach, Calif., the final assembly area. It...

A new Air Force employee failed to notify DOD about the service’s contract awards for the month of December. (If only we could have a do-over day, now and then.) DOD posts high-value contract announcements on its Web site each...

The technicians at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins AFB, Ga., completed routine depot maintenance for C-5 #87040 in just 159 days, beating the previous record by 12 days. What’s more, a year ago, the same process took 200...

The Air Force and Lockheed Martin have signed an agreement to convert the current J model multi-year, commercial item contract to a traditional military procurement contract. The service had purchased 23 aircraft under the previous contract and plans to buy...

Col. Cathy Clothier, commander of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell AFB, Kan., has been tapped to run the Air Force’s Senior Leader Management Office at the Pentagon. She will be taking over the office recently left leaderless by...

Local officials from Grand Forks, N.D., have started exploring options for the post-BRAC life of Grand Forks Air Force Base, according to the Grand Forks Herald. Grand Forks, the base, will lose its KC-135 tanker mission as part of BRAC...

The Air Force’s newly retooled interim religious guidelines appear to be drawing fire, even as the first set did—one side says they go too far, the other not far enough. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) complained to the New York Sun...

The Air Force has tapped 87 officers out of more than 400 who applied to undergo training as international affairs specialists—“globally skilled airmen.” The 87 officers will enter training this summer to become either political-military affairs strategists or regional affairs...

The Air Force Manpower Agency has activated four new squadrons around the country to assess manpower requirements, particularly “to define [USAF’s] emerging needs to counter a complex enemy and to do it with a significantly smaller force.” The new units...

Lockheed Martin and Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., will be working together under a new three-year cooperative research development agreement, designed “to assemble a set of cross-domain decision-making tools with enhanced situational awareness capabilities and embedded simulation.” In...

Feedback from employees, supervisors, and unions has led the Defense Department to adjust its preliminary National Security Personnel System design, say Pentagon officials. For one, job objectives will focus on results, clearly establishing a line of sight from individual performance...

February 12-13, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 27 10 – 37 CAS/Armed Recon 73 42 – 115 Airlift – – 335 335 Air refueling – – 62 62 Total 100 52 397 549 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...