Working under a Congressional mandate, Rand Corp. analyzed the Air Force’s planned multiyear procurement for the next 60 F-22A Raptors and found that it would save about $411 million. That is considerably more than the Air Force estimate of $225...

According to Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) Defense Secretary Robert Gates “has certified” that the F-22A multiyear contract that Congress authorized last year “meets all requirements of the law and will result in a savings to American taxpayers of $41l million.”...

The Enid (Okla.) News reports that Raptor program executive officer, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Riemer, says the Air Force and Lockheed on Friday signed a contract for the 60-aircraft MYP. (See above) Riemer was in Oklahoma to speak to newly minted...

Elected officials from Alabama traveled to Washington Friday to discuss the KC-X aerial refueling replacement aircraft program with Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne. George Talbot of the Press-Register reports that Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Mobile) wanted...

Air Force Reserve Command issued a news release last week that recaps some of the rewickering of units and aircraft, specifically those continuing to—or not to—fly the KC-135. AFRC’s 927th Air Refueling Wing leaves Selfridge ANGB, Mich., to form a...

Air Force Special Operations Command has begun a new training program for a select group of its security forces airmen. AFSOC plans to use an 11-week course to “fill a capabilities gap that existed between the [Phoenix] Raven’s training and...

The Air Force has awarded Boeing a contract valued at up to $2 billion to engineer and manufacture 242 wing sets for its fleet of A-10 attack aircraft. Boeing is to deliver the wing sets in easy-installation kits. The Air...

An Air Force Electronic Warfare Officer, Maj. Gerald Campbell, just spent six months in Afghanistan embedded with an Army unit at Forward Operating Base Sharana. Army 1st Lt. Ashley Deliavalle reports that Campbell’s job was to help train soldiers on...

The Air Force Real Property Agency last week transferred the last 3.5 acre parcel of the former Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Ohio to the Columbus (Ohio) Regional Airports Authority. The Air Force closed Rickenbacker in 1994 as part...

June 27, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 10 26 CAS/Armed Recon 69 36 105 Airlift 158 158 Air refueling 44 44 Total 85 46 202 333 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...