The Air Force is forging ahead with plans to consolidate development of operational and tactical capabilities in a single warfare center—the Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis AFB, Nev. The center started life in 1966 as the Tactical Fighter Weapons...

The Air Force just awarded an $8.9 million contract to Boeing to study elements of a conventional prompt global strike missile demonstration. Pursuing a conventional missile capability for PGS—defined as within one-hour—is on the service’s hot list, courtesy of the...

More than 1,000 contractors who would like to see a share in the US military’s planned $10 billion construction boom on Guam gathered on the island last week to hear the latest plans, reports Stars and Stripes. Most of the...

The International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan said in a release that a bomb dropped during a close air support strike “probably” killed three British soldiers on Aug. 23 in southern Afghanistan. A statement from the British Ministry of Defence...

The race to secure the Air Force’s new Cyber Command has a downside. At least, Scott Huddleston of the Express-News reports that some in San Antonio worry that not winning the new command could lead to a drain of current...

Air Force Gen. Lance Smith, commander of US Joint Forces Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation wants to retire come January, after serving some 37 years in the Air Force. NATO, in an Aug. 27 statement concurred, saying he...

The most recent Operation Deep Freeze Winter Fly-in mission concluded this past weekend, when a C-17 from McChord AFB, Wash., took off from Pegasus White Ice Runway in Antarctica. (The initial runs were made before the station personnel prepared the...

As we reported earlier, the EPA allowed the Air Force to transfer a 62-acre parcel of the former McClellan Air Force Base in California to Sacramento County, prior to its removal from the Superfund site list. An EPA release states...

The Arizona Air National Guard’s F-16s from the 162nd Fighter Wing at Tucson Airport will be doing their flying out of Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., while the Tucson runway undergoes maintenance. The Tucson Citizen reports that influx of more military aircraft...

Survival training for select Air Force career fields ramped up in the post-9/11 world, and the Air Force’s new push to extend such training to all airmen means an even greater workload. A new CSAF’s Scope entry from Gen. Michael...

The head of the Nevada Air National Guard, Brig. Gen. Robert Fitch, calls his civilian-life employer, “extremely gracious” when it comes to extending him leave for military duties, even weeks of overseas travel. Gerry Gilmore reports that Fitch’s nomination of...

Air Force civilian employee William Machingo received the DOD Small Business Program Manager of the Year award for his work while he was chief of an Air Force Plant 42 Integrated Product Team at Palmdale, Calif. Machingo now serves as...

Aug. 25-26, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 35 19 54 CAS/Armed Recon 141 85 226 Airlift 293 293 Air refueling 109 109 Total 176 104 402 682 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...