The Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Michael Moseley, last month directed his space boss, Gen. Kevin Chilton, head of Air Force Space Command, to lead a review of orbiting spacecraft vulnerabilities, reports Peter Spiegel of the Los Angeles Times....

The Air Force sees the unmanned aerial vehicle executive agent concept as producing not only “resource efficiencies” but also a means to “improve the delivery of ISR information to America’s joint warriors on the ground, at sea, and in the...

Lawmakers at the House Armed Services air and land forces panel hearing last week were not pleased when repeated attempts to elicit straightforward and compelling arguments to establishing an unmanned aerial vehicle executive agent. Among the comments from the Congressmen:...

Lawmakers already have a backup plan to follow a promised veto by President Bush on the current war on terror supplemental; they plan to supply funding for only two months, reports The Hill. On Friday, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman...

The F-15E Strike Eagles flown and maintained by airmen deployed from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, have had a chilling effect on Taliban forces. Since their arrival in January, the Mountain Home airmen, operating as the 391st...

Some 100 airmen and an unknown number of F-15E Strike Eagles from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., are engaged in the pre-deployment training for close air support units that Air Combat Command now calls Green Flag,...

The Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, 24 NATO countries, three non-NATO countries, and a commercial aerial tanking vendor have all adopted a common set of procedures for aerial refueling. An Air Mobility Command release calls the development of the NATO...

If you ask the Government Accountability Office, one of the chief causes of ongoing schedule and cost problems of military space programs is the fact that “on a broad scale, DOD starts more weapon programs than it can afford.” Compounding...

The Air Force has developed a counter-biological warfare concept of operations and an instruction it expects to apply to all its facilities, the culmination of a year’s assessment of the biowar threat posed to Kunsan AB, South Korea. Service officials...

Veterans Affairs plans to have its hospital clinicians start using a VA version of the DOD Joint Patient Tracking Application on Monday to keep tabs on wounded warriors evacuated from Afghanistan and Iraq, reports Bob Brewin of Government Executive. Edward...

The first C-5M Super Galaxy is now at Dover AFB, Del., undergoing its first isochronal inspection—a process that takes about 14 days and that every C-5 must undergo about every 420 days to ensure it meets safety and operations standards....

April 17, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 9 25 CAS/Armed Recon 46 44 90 Airlift 130 130 Air refueling 47 47 Total 62 53 177 292 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...