The Air National Guard-led 1st Air Force, in its US Continental NORAD Region role, has increased Operation Noble Eagle air patrols over central Florida as NASA gears up for the projected Aug. 7 launch of the shuttle Endeavor. CONR has...

Lockheed Martin has completed a key milestone in the development of the Space Based Infrared System satellite program, which just got a restructuring green light from Pentagon acquisition chief Ken Krieg. A company release states that Lockheed “successfully completed” an...

Pratt & Whitney has just completed 8,000 ground test hours with the F135 engine, the primary powerplant destined for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Coupled with earlier testing during the fighter’s concept demonstration program, the F135 now has more...

The Administration’s choice as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—Adm. Michael Mullen—told Senators at his confirmation hearing that he worries that the focus on Iraq, however appropriate, will cause the nation to “lapse into complacency about our...

A Total Force group of airmen deployed to Balad AB, Iraq, fabricate varied aircraft parts and ground equipment from scratch. SrA. Michelle Santos, a Reservist deployed from Homestead ARB, Fla., knows the value of the “metal techs.” She says: “Without...

Leadership for Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan has changed from the US military to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. Air Force SSgt. Julie Weckerlein reports that this marks the first time a NATO multinational team has taken control of a large...

The Arnold Engineering and Development Center in Tennessee plans to dedicate the F-15 on static display at its front gate to Maj. Jim Duricy, an F-15 test pilot killed in April 2002 when his fighter broke apart at Mach 2...

The 2008 war supplemental submitted by the White House to Congress amounted to around $145 billion, but this week House Democrats say that next month lawmakers will have to consider adding another $40 billion on top of that, reports Peter...

Lawmakers want to see improvement in how the Defense Department handles mental health care, including capitalizing on existing “best practices.” In the spring nine of them asked the GAO to review DOD screenings, diagnoses, referrals, and treatment of service members...

The Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, Ga., has started construction on its new World War II hangar. The museum expects the $4 million, 60,000-square-foot facility to be completed by mid-2008. It will house some 16 World War II vintage...

July 31, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 11 27 CAS/Armed Recon 49 37 86 Airlift 154 154 Air refueling 50 50 Total 65 48 204 317 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...