Protests are mounting over USAF’s planned transfer of C-130s from Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units to the active duty formal training unit at Little Rock AFB, Ark. Complaint letters sent to Air Force Secretary Michael Donley—the latest...

EADS/Airbus have not yet informed the Defense Department if it will bid on the KC-X tanker contract, and they better do so soon, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said Thursday. Speaking at an Aerospace Industries Association-sponsored event in the US...

Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) doesn’t want EADS involved in the KC-X tanker contract, he said Thursday. “I hope they don’t bid,” the newly minted chair of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee told reporters following an Aerospace Industries Association event in...

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn warns not to expect a full-blown plan for a new bomber in next year’s defense budget. Speaking Thursday at an Aerospace Industries Association event in the US Capitol, Lynn said the Pentagon is assessing now...

Civil authorities are showing greater willingness to accept the use of remotely piloted aircraft over populated areas, especially in a crisis, according to Ed Walby, Northrop Grumman director of business development for high-altitude, long-endurance systems. No Predator or other RPA-type...

Northrop Grumman has firm or very likely orders for more than 150 of its Global Hawk remotely piloted reconnaissance aircraft, according to George Guerra, company vice president for high-altitude, long-endurance systems. Briefing reporters Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Guerra said the...

The city of El Mirage in Arizona has released a noise study it commissioned that states the introduction of the new F-35 strike fighter at Luke Air Force Base might cause property values to drop, reports The Arizona Republic. Although...

The potential introduction of the F-35 to Vermont by the state’s Air National Guard has raised concern among some residents—also the noise issue—according to the Burlington Free Press (report) and WCAX (report). But Vermont Air Guardsmen are urging their neighbors...

Air Force Space Command boss Gen. Bob Kehler says the Air Force plans to indoctrinate its basic trainees in the ways of cyber warfare, reports Associated Press. Speaking this week at the Space Foundation symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., he...

Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz plans Friday to fly in the first new C-130J destined for the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess AFB, Tex., reports the Abilene Reporter News. A base spokesman told the newspaper that Dyess expects to...

New York Senators believe the Air Force will assign C-17 airlifters to the New York Air National Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart ANG Base sooner rather than later, so Sen. Charles Schumer (D) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) have...

The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, plans to hold the 68th Doolittle Tokyo Raider Reunion April 16-18 “with the promise of a good weather forecast,” according to the museum’s April 15 release. As part of...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, April 13, 2010 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 29 31 60 6,256 CAS/Armed Recon 22 83 105 9,463 Airlift 166 166 17,421 Air refueling 45 45 4,340 Rescue 38 38 1,145 Total...