Pentagon acquisition czar John Young has approved a restructured plan for the C-5 reliability enhancement and re-engining program, under which only the Air Force’s B and C models will be upgraded and not its older A models. Young called it...

OSD’s restructure of the C-5 reliability enhancement and re-engining program hasn’t solved one issue for the Air Force: how many of the 59 C-5A aircraft not getting the new engines it will retain vs. retire in the nearer term. “This...

The timeline next decade for declaring the Air Force’s new aerial refueling aircraft ready for combat will depend on the discretion of the Air Mobility Command commander at the time, according to a senior USAF general. “We don’t have a...

Gen. John Corley ordered most of Air Combat Command’s grounded F-15s back into the air Friday night without any new restrictions and recommended that other commands with F-15s do the same. Much of the fleet has been grounded since Nov....

Air Force Materiel Command chief Gen. Bruce Carlson wasn’t speaking for the Air Force leadership when he insisted the service would find some way to fund all of the 381 F-22 Raptors the service says it must have to meet...

As Congress gears for what is seemingly becoming an annual ritual: deciding the fate of the F-35’s F136 engine program, the General Electric/Rolls-Royce consortium developing the powerplant announced last week that it has successfully completed the engine’s critical design review,...

Inspections to gauge the operational readiness of the nation’s nuclear forces have grown lax, just one example of the “dramatic reduction” DOD-wide in a dedicated focus on the nuclear mission, retired Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Larry Welch, told...

In addition to policy and procedural changes to the Air Force’s nuclear security posture, the head of USAF’s Blue Ribbon Review into the August 2007 Bent Spear told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that the Air Force needs...

The Air Force is nearing the release of a request for information to industry to examine the merits of using commercial tanker aircraft on a fee-for-service basis, the service’s top uniformed acquisition official said last week. “We are at that...

Do you remember Mitch Miller? Well, here’s a little nostalgia sent to us by a reader. It’s the “US Air Force Blue” song from 1957 by the Mitch Miller Orchestra and singers, set to film clips by the Air Force....

Feb. 14, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 25 9 34 1,151 CAS/Armed Recon 59 24 83 3,592 Airlift 96 96 5,197 Air refueling 46 46 1,688 Total 259 11,628 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...