Six F-22s from the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, are set to deploy today, along with a contingent of support and maintenance personnel, to Andersen AFB, Guam, for two-weeks of training and exercises. This will be the first...

The Air Force announced yesterday that it is authorizing assignment incentive pay for airmen assigned to and performing duty at Creech AFB, Nev., effective immediately. Airmen who meet the eligibility criteria will receive $300 AIP per month for the first...

Air Education and Training Command is the first major command authorized to pursue and manage services contracts valued at up to $500 million following the signing last month of an agreement with USAF’s program executive office for combat and mission...

The Air Force is on track to have 31 simultaneous combat air patrols of MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles available in December to combatant commanders in Southwest Asia, Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Peterson, USAF’s chief of warfighting integration and...

Adopting standard computer configurations has allowed the Air Force to slash the time it takes to address vulnerabilities found in the service’s computer networks that could be exploited by someone with nefarious intent. Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Peterson, USAF’s...

The Air Force is purchasing two types of removable mobile command workspaces for use by military and senior civilian leaders traveling aboard mobility aircraft. “Having these pallets on airlift and refueling aircraft provides an ‘office in the air’ and will...

TSgt. Clinton Beck, a pararescueman with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron at Pope AFB, N.C., has won the Air Force’s 2008 Vanguard Award for his heroic actions in saving the lives of two Afghan girls wounded during a firefight between...

WC-130J “Hurricane Hunter” aircraft from Air Force Reserve Command’s 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Miss., have deployed to a forward operating location on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands to be better positioned to monitor a new storm system...

Alliant Techsystems, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman have teamed to pursue advanced multi-role weapons for the F-22 and F-35 as well as future unmanned aerial vehicles and manned platforms, the companies announced in a joint statement July 16. “This team...

Coalition strike aircraft flew 42 close air support missions in Afghanistan on July 16 and an equal number of sorties in Iraq on that day, Air Forces Central said in a release. In Afghanistan, a B-1B bomber dropped 500-pound joint...

Eight Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30MKI fighters will participate for the first time in the upcoming Red Flag exercise at Nellis AFB, Nev., from Aug. 9 to 25. On July 13, the Su-30s landed at Lajes Field, Azores, in the Atlantic...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaJuly 15, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 26 12 38 6,119 CAS/Armed Recon 36 71 107 18,051 Airlift 124 124 24,863 Air refueling 62 62 8,634 Total 331 57,667...