If splitting the litigious KC-X aerial tanker program between Boeing and Northrop Grumman would break the gridlock on getting a new tanker, that would be an acceptable—if “troublesome”—solution to the problem, Gen. Arthur Lichte, Air Mobility Command chief, said yesterday....

If the Air Force had to accept a split-buy (see above), it would only affect cash flow and not represent a fundamental shift in the program, Air Mobility Command chief, Gen. Arthur Lichte, said yesterday. The service plans to buy...

Fresh off of decisions by the new Air Force leadership to cancel the realignment of aircraft maintenance units and defer acquiring new uniforms, the service announced yesterday that it has axed plans to establish a new center for Common Battlefield...

For the eighth consecutive year, Air Force Reserve Command has met and eclipsed its annual goal, bringing in this fiscal year 8,000 new recruits. It reached this year’s mark on Aug. 28 when SSgt. Philip Fogleman, a Reserve recruiter in...

Four HH-60G helicopters and four HC-130 rescue tankers from Air Force Reserve Command’s 920th Rescue Wing were expected to be ferried yesterday form their home base at Patrick AFB, Fla., to Montgomery, Ala., to escape the projected path of Tropical...

Canadian Forces, acting upon a new bilateral agreement, deployed three transport aircraft in the past week to support the US military’s humanitarian efforts during Hurricane Gustav, Air Forces Northern said in a release Sept. 2. A CC-177 (Canada’s designation for...

The 7th Expeditionary Air Command and Control Squadron, the E-8C Joint STARS unit deployed to Southwest Asia from the Total Force 116th Air Control Wing at Robins AFB, Ga., surpassed 40,000 flight hours supporting the global war on terror during...

The US government filed a claim against Boeing in federal court on Tuesday, saying that the company unlawfully overcharged the Air Force by $7.5 million for the towed decoy systems used on the B-1B bomber. Bloomberg News wire service reported...

Inclement weather on the US East Coast has pushed back this week’s launch of the GeoEye-1 commercial imagery satellite on the West Coast by at least several days, GeoEye, Inc., announced Tuesday. Although the satellite is sitting atop its Delta...

The B-1B programmed depot maintenance team at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker AFB, Okla., has won a Shingo Bronze Medallion prize for its work in radically improving the bomber’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul processes. “The Shingo award...