The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center has begun replacing C-130 center wing boxes and expects to complete 12 of the tactical airlifters by 2009. Ultimately, the ALC will replace the wing boxes for 155 C-130s by 2020, but Dusty Dodd,...

Air Mobility Command has spent some $1.4 billion over the past 10 years to buy new aircraft simulators and upgrade old ones—all with an eye toward fuel economy. The command expects to be able to cut more than 270,000 flight...

In the latest report to Congress about major acquisition program cost and schedule changes, the Pentagon noted the revised schedule and cost increases for the Air Force’s Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. DOD had told Congress earlier this year that...

Kyrgyzstan officials have decided that the Air Force KC-135 aircrew was at fault when a Kyrgyz Tu-154 airliner grazed the wing of the refueling aircraft in late September. The Russian News & Information Agency reports that the Kyrgyz government is...

The Missile Defense Agency has declared full operational capability for its Combined Test Force, now located at Huntsville, Ala. The agency has been moving personnel from scattered test elements to Huntsville because it “recognized a need for an integrated approach...

NATO defense chiefs agree that providing security is only one of three necessary ingredients to secure long-term success in Afghanistan. The focus at the NATO defense chiefs meeting in Brussels was Afghanistan, with the recent shift in leadership from the...

The upcoming NATO summit in Riga, Latvia, will not focus on the alliance’s military transformation efforts, rather discussion will center on operations in Afghanistan and, most likely, the nature of NATO’s roles beyond Europe, according to a new “primer” put...

A new Gallup Poll asked Americans to name the “most important problem facing this country today” and, not surprisingly, some 36 percent proffered the situation/war in Iraq at their No. 1 concern. That concern eclipsed all others, with healthcare and...

SMSgt. Anthony Trenga, an airman with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard recently accrued 10,000 flying hours in a KC-135 refueler, a rare feat accomplished while deployed with his KC-135 crewmembers of the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron in Southwest Asia.

The man responsible for overseeing the shutdown of operations at Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan—CMSgt. Phillip Cherry—has received a Bronze Star for his efforts at K-2 and subsequent work at Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan. The senior NCO received his award earlier this month before...

The Air Force has awarded Boeing $299.8 million to produce the fourth Wideband Gap Filler satellite.The award represents the first option under the WGS Block II contract given to Boeing last month. The program potentially is worth about $1.1 billion....

The Senate has passed the Fiscal 2007 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriation Act, providing nearly $9 billion above the amount allocated to VA last year, said Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), head of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Of the $78...

Nov. 15, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 7 23 CAS/Armed Recon 39 39 78 Airlift 143 143 Air refueling 36 36 Total 55 46 179 280 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance