The Pentagon’s acquisition executive wants F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin to share in the costs of overruns in the strike aircraft’s development to keep the multibillion-dollar program on track. Reuters news service reported that DOD weapons czar Ashton Carter told reporters...

Air Force officials are poised to begin negotiations with Fotowatio Renewable Ventures of San Francisco, a leading global independent solar power producer, on a lease deal to develop the largest crystalline photovoltaic solar project in North America on the grounds...

US and Singaporean government officials on Nov 19 celebrated the inauguration of the combined F-15SG fighter detachment at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, under the bilateral Peace Carvin V initiative. Under it, Mountain Home’s 366th Fighter Wing is hosting the 428th...

A catastrophic electrical failure caused an MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted vehicle to crash in April during a mission over Afghanistan, Air Combat Command officials announced Tuesday. According to the findings of ACC's accident investigation board, a short circuit most likely caused the failure, which led to the MQ-1 losing contact with its ground control station during the April 20 mission. The aircraft, whose wreckage was recovered the next day, was carrying one Hellfire missile when it went down in eastern Afghanistan. The value of the lost aircraft and its components is approximately $4.6 million, ACC said. (Langley release) (AIB report)

Senior Army leaders from Combined Joint Task Force-82 on Monday met with airmen of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, and thanked them for their contribution to the joint fight in that country. “Soldiers and marines...

Northrop Grumman says the Air Force has granted the Block 20 and Block 30 variants of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft military airworthiness certification after rigorous, thorough evaluation. In a release Nov. 20, the company said this represents...

Maj. Douglas Ware, now chief of the airfield operations and procedures branch within Air Mobility Command headquarters at Scott AFB, Ill., received a Bronze Star Medal for his meritorious service in Iraq during a year-long deployment that concluded on June 15. Ware "cultivated lasting improvements to the Iraqi national airspace system" during his time in Baghdad as an air traffic control program manager and advisor to Iraqi air force headquarters, according to his award citation and narrative. These efforts aided in the phased transfer of airspace from coalition forces to the Iraqi government, states the documents.

While many people may not even know what the Civil Air Patrol, the Air Force Auxiliary, does, its ranks of dedicated volunteers continue to go about their preparations and training quietly for when the nation needs them. So reported the...

On Nov. 17, relatives of Lt. Wilson Pinkstaff, pilot of The Happy Legend, a B-25 bomber that crashed in the mountains of New Guinea on Dec. 5, 1942, gathered at Arlington National Cemetery, along with six other families to lay...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Nov. 20-21, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 51 60 111 15,319 CAS/Armed Recon 30 143 173 31,657 Airlift 295 295 43,869 Air refueling 88 88 15,574 Total 667 106,419 OIF=Operation Iraqi...