The Air Force has asked the Government Accountability Office to release more of its review of the original combat search and rescue helicopter replacement program award. Kenneth Miller, special assistant to Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, told Rebecca Christie of...

The Defense Acquisition Board has set May 30 for its review of the Army-Air Force Joint Cargo Aircraft program, pushing forward announcement of the winning contractor to perhaps June at the earliest. Earlier this year, Army and Air Force officials...

Mexico lawmakers got their way—the Pentagon has decided to place its new Operationally Responsive Space Program Office at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D) and Sen. Pete Domenici (R), along with Rep. Heather Wilson (R), wrote to then-Defense Secretary...

The 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron has been delivering about one million pounds of cargo a day to Iraq and Afghanistan. SrA. Erik Hofmeyer reports that the aircrews, nearing the end of their four-month rotation, have flown 3,578 sorties, hauling 120.8...

The Air Force Association Board of Directors has tapped Michael M. Dunn, a retired Air Force lieutenant general who last served as president of National Defense University, to become AFA president and chief executive officer, directing the professional staff and...

The Pentagon plans to name a new outside review panel to survey military space management and operations, reports Andy Pasztor of the Wall Street Journal. A DOD spokesman told Pasztor that there is a timeline for the review, but the...

A $26 million museum honoring the Tuskegee Airmen is in the works for a 35,000-square-foot hangar at Detroit’s airport. Associated Press news services reports that retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Lucius Theus said full-scale models of fighter planes the Tuskegee...

The Montana Air National Guard’s 120th Fighter Wing kicked off its conversion from F-16 to F-15 fighters with a staged “demolition” of an aircraft hangar last week, reports Peter Johnson of the Great Falls Tribune. The wing is to receive...

The Gallup Poll reports that the American public considers the war in Iraq to be one of the nation’s top problems and has done so for the past four months. Asked last month what impact the increase in the number...

The Bush Administration is apparently failing to persuade Americans that conditions in Iraq are going to improve thanks to the presence of US and coalition troops there. A majority—51 percent—of Americans is saying they believe the US will definitely or...

The Air Force has created an easier means for enlisted personnel to turn their Community College associate degree into credit toward a bachelor’s degree from participating four-year colleges—and they can handle it via distance learning. According to a USAF release,...

April 25-27, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 45 27 72 CAS/Armed Recon 131 137 268 Airlift 430 430 Air refueling 134 134 Total 176 164 564 904 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...