Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s panel on air and land forces, has joined the chorus of those influential lawmakers calling for DOD to purchase new tankers from both Boeing and Northrop Grumman instead of taking...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz on March 9 formally approved the plan that makes Air Force Reserve Command’s 93rd Bomb Squadron at Barksdale AFB, La., the B-52H formal training unit. Plans call for the FTU to achieve...

Raytheon will deliver the first miniature air launched decoy to the Air Force on Monday during an acceptance ceremony in Tucson, Ariz., company officials tell the Daily Report. The company began MALD development in 2003 and the first units being...

After more than one year of coordination, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz on March 3 signed the official charter that gives the US Air Force Expeditionary Center at Ft. Dix, N.J., the responsibility for training airmen in...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that France will rejoin NATO’s integrated command structure, 43 years after then French President Charles de Gaulle withdrew French participation in protest of what he regarded as US hegemony over Europe. The Washington Post...

The Air Force and NASA announced earlier this month that they intend to establish national hypersonic science centers at Texas A&M University in College Station, Tex., the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., and Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC in...

The 618th Tanker Airlift Control Center at Scott AFB, Ill., Air Mobility Command’s hub for global airlift, air refueling, and aeromedical evacuation operations, received an overall rating of “excellent” in the mission capability inspection that it just underwent. AMC’s inspector...

There’s widespread misunderstanding of what NASA is and should be, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson, author, host of TV’s “Nova Science Now,” and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. It should be remembered that NASA came into...

Gifted educators aren’t enough to stimulate the next generation of American scientists and engineers, according to science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson. Pursuit of manned space programs will inspire budding techies and attract the talent the US will need to lead...

An Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded research team at Ohio State University has developed techniques to increase the accuracy of GPS receivers equipped with anti-jam and adaptive antennas. Led by Dr. Inder Gupta, the team has made breakthroughs in...

Mar. 10, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 29 18 47 2,728 CAS/Armed Recon 25 76 101 6,887 Airlift 125 125 8,965 Air refueling 43 43 3,184 Total 316 21,764 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...