The Air Force’s new family of career specialty codes for cyberspace support (3DXXX) that took effect Nov. 1 supplants the three former career fields of communications-electronics (2EXXX), knowledge operations management (3AXXX), and communications-computer systems (3CXXX). About 43,000 active duty, Air...

With a nuclear posture review underway and the Obama Administration negotiating a new arms control agreement with Russia, Montana’s Congressional delegation has made clear that it doesn’t want to see cuts made in the nation’s ICBM force that would affect...

The Air Force intends to award Raytheon a contract to determine the feasibility of taking existing hardware that the company has held in storage and building an infrared sensor payload that could be used in space to warn of missile...

The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing was named the overall winner of Falcon Air Meet 2009, a multinational F-16 competition hosted by Jordan. The event ran from late October through Nov. 3 at Mwaffaq Salti Air Base....

Brig. Gen. Mike Callan, vice commander of 17th Air Force (Air Forces Africa), led a USAF delegation to Mali and Senegal in late October to meet with senior officials from those nation’s air forces and get a first-hand look at...

The Thunderbirds air demonstration squadron has returned home to Nellis AFB, Nev., after a six-week tour of the Pacific Far East that started in late September. The team capped its Pacific tour by performing at the Seoul air show from...

Alcoa announced Thursday that it will refurbish and repair its 50,000-ton forging press in Cleveland over the next two years to support the F-35 strike fighter program. The company will invest more than $110 million in the Cleveland Works through...

As part of its Year of the Air Force Family initiative, the Air Force has launched a “family road show” by dispatching six representatives to visit USAF installations across the country. “I’m here to celebrate and spread the word about...

Virginia Dosedel, a financial analyst at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, received the Air Force’s annual Spirit of Hope Award on Oct. 27 during a ceremony in the Pentagon. She was recognized for her work with “Sew Much Comfort,” a non-profit charitable...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Oct. 29, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 33 56 13,990 CAS/Armed Recon 14 83 97 29,360 Airlift 151 151 40,433 Air refueling 48 48 14,486 Total 352 98,269 OIF=Operation Iraqi...