The Air Force is asking industry and academia to tender some suggestions for lightening the weight and reducing the footprint of its combat support resources to make them more rapidly deployable. Air Force Materiel Command’s Air Armament Center issued a...

There is still some question about the future of the California Air National Guard’s 144th Fighter Wing but for now it has traded an older version of the F-16 for a newer one, getting a few more in the bargain...

Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted bids to build the next generation Global Positioning System satellites—GPS III. Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., issued the request for proposals in July. Boeing’s VP and general manager...

The Air Force last week reprised—after a fashion—a 1938 event that reshaped airpower. Three B-52 bombers on Aug. 24 flew approximately 1,600 miles to intercept a ship—the US Navy’s 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo, a maritime prepositioning ship, much like...

Where once operated the “Blue Cube” could be a BMW dealership or a pricey hotel—well, perhaps not. Melanie Carroll of the Palo Alto Daily News reports that the Pentagon has yet to weigh in on the future for Onizuka AFS,...

Columnist Eric Margolis in the Toronto Sun writes that the US Air Force invited him to address a “Checkmate” gathering on the Mid East and Southwest Asia on the strength of a column he wrote in July on “the decisive...

Two years after Hurricane Katrina left $950 million in damage at Keesler AFB, Miss., the base’s five-year recovery plan has “exceeded all expectations,” Brig. Gen. Paul Capasso, 81st Training Wing commander, said last week. The base’s training mission “never went...

Local officials in San Bernardino, Calif., do not believe that redevelopment efforts underway will restore all the 10,000 jobs lost when the former Norton Air Force Base closed in 1994, after landing on the 1988 BRAC hit list. The area...

The Pentagon is planning to spend $20 million on improvements at Mihail Kogalniceanu AB, Romania, now used by US forces as a training area and way station for troops headed to the Middle East., reports Scott Schonauer of Stars and...

The US Provincial Reconstruction Team led by Air Force Lt. Col. Gordon Phillips in the Nangahar province of Afghanistan has made “significant progress” in its first four months on the job. Army Sgt. Sara Wood reports that the PRT has...

Aug. 24, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 21 10 31 CAS/Armed Recon 57 45 102 Airlift 145 145 Air refueling 53 53 Total 78 55 198 331 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...