Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan became head of the F-35 program, the Defense Department’s largest-ever acquisition effort, on Thursday during a ceremony at the Pentagon. Bogdan, who’d been serving as the F-35 deputy program executive officer since July, replaced Vice Adm....

President Obama plans to nominate Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Lloyd Austin to lead US Central Command, announced Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a statement on Thursday. Once the nomination comes and the Senate approves it, Austin would take...

An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft assigned to the 57th Wing at Nellis AFB, Nev., crashed on Wednesday on the Nevada Test and Training Range during a combat training mission, announced Nellis officials. The mishap occurred at approximately 7:14 p.m....

In a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Senate Armed Services Committee leadership took the Air Force to task for scrapping the Expeditionary Combat Support System and asked for answers on how this acquisition effort failed in the manner...

US Pacific Command chief Adm. Samuel Locklear told reporters Thursday that he was executing the Obama Administration’s “rebalance initiative” in the Asia-Pacific region, and from his perspective, this means strengthening relationships and doing some creative thinking about military power and...

North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong Un has displayed a number of signs in the last few months that might have led an observer to conclude that he would take a more “rational” approach to his country’s economy and people,...

US and Iraqi officials reaffirmed the two nations’ commitment to strengthening security cooperation, enhancing Iraq’s defense capabilities, and modernizing Iraq’s military forces during meetings in Bagdad this week, announced the Defense Department. The capstone event during the Dec. 5-6 gathering...

The Air Force’s sixth new-build HC-130J personnel recovery airplane left Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Marietta, Ga., on Thursday, bound for Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., announced the company. Maj. Gen. Timothy Zadalis, Air Education and Training Command’s director of intelligence, operations,...

The 437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at JB Charleston, S.C., is emphasizing the importance of dedicated crew chiefs for each of the C-17 transports that it maintains, according to a base release. “A dedicated crew chief is expected to know our...

Dec. 8 marks the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. That agreement, which entered into force on June 1, 1988, led to the elimination of each nation’s ground-launched cruise...