The Defense Acquisition Board met with Pentagon acquisition guru Ken Krieg last week, as planned, to consider the Joint Cargo Aircraft, endorsing the selection made by the Army and Air Force, reports George Talbot of the Mobile Press-Register. The DAB...

Air Force Reserve Command’s 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell AFB, Ala., got its first revamped C-130 Hercules last week, and the Montgomery Advertiser reports that the unit considers the $10 million upgrade “a bargain.” The “new” C-130 is part of...

Sheppard Air Force Base, near Wichita Falls, Tex., teamed with the Southwest Research Institute to turn an old A-10 flight trainer into one that offers the latest A-10C model cockpit. The effort, which cost $200,000 and took six months, employs...

The switch to a new intelligence mission for the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 102nd Fighter Wing at Otis ANGB, Mass., has hit a funding wall, reports the Cape Cod Times. Unit officials tell the Times that there is no money...

At least one Air National Guard unit’s aircraft boost, courtesy of BRAC 2005, is creating problems because the additional aircraft didn’t come with the money to support them. KOTV news reports that the additional nine F-16s gained by the Oklahoma...

The Air Force plans to hold a reduction in force board this month to identify 322 officers—as of May 31, the latest numbers available—in four year groups to leave the service by January 2008. That is a drop of 137 officers from data reported as of May 4. The Air Force has identified 208 RIF eligibles in the 1995 year group, 163 for 1996, 254 for 2000, and 591 for 2001. Helicopter, bomber, and reconnaissance aircraft pilots are no longer on the list of RIF eligibles. The career field that must cut the greatest number across the four groups is communications/information. (The May 31 RIF numbers for each year group by specialty are available here.) The Air Force plans to announce its Fiscal 2008 force shaping programs in July.

Air commandos at Hurlburt Field, Fla., has named a street for one of its members killed in action in Afghanistan, and elements of a new training center for three other air commandos killed in an aircraft crash in Iraq. They...

The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star to Capt. Maria Moss, a 763rd Maintenance Squadron officer at Nellis AFB, Nev., for her efforts while deployed to Afghanistan. Moss served as a security assistance officer on a year-long tour—her third...

The Air Force is installing a new security program called the Defense Biometric Identification System to enroll third country nationals to speed access to a base located in Southwest Asia. At this unnamed facility, airmen deployed to the 379th Expeditionary...

Some 155 airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force are deployed to Southwest Asia, where they operate C-130 airlifters, flying supplies throughout the Southwest Asia area of operations. SrA. Clark Staehle also reports that some RAAF airmen work in the...

The Air Force has renamed the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, headquartered at Brooks City-Base, Tex., to the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment—the acronym, therefore, is still AFCEE. A base release says the new name “more...

May 30, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 15 11 26 CAS/Armed Recon 60 39 99 Airlift 128 128 Air refueling 48 48 Total 75 50 176 301 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...