The Air Force’s presence inside Afghanistan will grow by more than 30 percent in coming months as the US military surges forces there, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said during a visit to Southwest Asia last week. From a...

Talk of the US military having to vacate Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan, in August isn’t stopping the US from making changes to the base now to help support the buildup of forces in Afghanistan. In fact, a nine-member basic expeditionary airfield...

Lockheed Martin says it has submitted its proposal for the next set of space based infrared system (SBIRS) early warning spacecraft to the Air Force and has completed the preliminary design review for them. According to an April 9 release,...

Air Force technicians have developed a planning process for intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance capability that service officials say will give decision-makers a one-stop shop to determine ISR strategy, tasks, shortfalls, and solutions. They say it represents the first time that a consolidated process...

The Air Force Research Lab wants to move forward in maturing key components for its joint dual-role air dominance missile (JDRADM), an air-launched weapon concept that the lab envisions as deadly against “extremely agile air targets” as well as ground-based...

Six pararescuemen from Air Force Reserve Command’s 920th Rescue Wing conducted an astronaut recovery drill last month using a mockup of NASA’s next-generation Orion crew capsule in the waters off Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. During this “post-landing Orion recovery test,”...

Sqn. Ldr. (O-4) Matthew Harper is the first Royal Australian Air Force pilot to fly the US Air Force’s F-22 stealth fighter. Harper began a three-year stint last spring with the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, under the...

Cadets at the Air Force Academy are formulating their initial concepts for FalconSAT-6, the next in the series of experimental small-sized satellites that are designed, built, and operated by cadets. The academy held a symposium recently for representatives across the...

Retired Lt. Gen. Dale Sweat, whose last assignment was as vice commander of Tactical Air Command in the early 1970s, died last month at age 87. The Register-Mail of Galesburg, Ill., reported yesterday that Sweat passed away March 1 in...

April 9-10, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 54 20 74 3,902 CAS/Armed Recon 53 119 172 9,878 Airlift 280 280 13,320 Air refueling 45 45 4,468 Total 571 31,568 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...