Gen. Kevin Chilton, new commander of Air Force Space Command, believes that US enemies right now are developing the means to strike at US space capabilities because that is how they will attempt to “level the playing field,” since space...

Iran soon will face United Nations sanctions, Nicholas Burns, the third ranking official at the State Department, told Washington-based defense reporters Thursday morning. Burns expects to see quick action—“by the first part of September”—once the Aug. 31 deadline passes for...

The United States was the first country to offer humanitarian aid to Lebanese refugees two and a half weeks ago, according to Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs. Burns told defense reporters Thursday morning that the US has...

Lockheed Martin is ready for the coming “explosion”—to use Gen. Bruce Carlson’s word—in unmanned systems, briefing Washington-based reporters Tuesday on an arsenal of new UAVs. One such, which company officials say has been in the works for two years, is...

Gen. Tom Hobbins, US Air Forces in Europe commander, has spent the past three days in Russia, where he has flown in an Su-27 and MiG-29—a payback for F-15E rides provided two top Russian Air Force generals. Hobbins called the...

A senior Pentagon official yesterday took offense at the recent Government Accountability Office report on recruiting irregularities, despite the fact that DOD largely agreed with GAO’s findings. Bill Carr, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy, called the...

A host of Kansas and Air Force officials on Wednesday helped celebrate the ribbon cutting on the new intelligence center for the Air National Guard’s 161st Intelligence Operations Squadron at McConnell AFB, Kan. The Distributed Ground Station is new but...

It takes maintainers—officer and enlisted—deployed from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, Mo., to Andersen AFB, Guam, about 24 hours to wash one of the wing’s B-2 bombers. And, they have to perform the cleaning job every 30 days...

In an effort to dissect the Pentagon’s war strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has requested two secret studies, which, unnamed Pentagon sources tell the Boston Globe, “have found serious deficiencies across the board.” DOD also asked 50 top...

The Missile Defense Agency is getting closer to naming a site for a European wing of ground-based interceptor missiles, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III, head of the Missile Defense Agency, at a conference in Huntsville, Ala.,...

Contract and Air Force technicians are hip deep in the process to upgrade the service’s A-10 attack aircraft, all of which Gen. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff, said earlier this summer the Air Force plans to keep. Lockheed Martin has...

An Air Force honor guard and band members paid tribute to World War II bomber pilot and career officer, Maj. Gen. Jack I. Posner, during his burial at Arlington National Cemetery Aug. 11. Posner, who was 83 when he died...

The Air Force Memorial Foundation has a unique feature on its Web site that enables individuals to submit an Air Force person—past or present—as their “hero.” They can write a statement (500 words or less) in tribute to someone “who...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, addressing disabled American veterans at their convention in Chicago, says that the Justice Department now has a Web site to help address “some of the worries” facing National Guard and Reserve members when they return to...

Aug. 15, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 15 8 23 CAS/Armed Recon 40 25 65 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 41 41 Total 55 33 191 279 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance