A modified version of Sikorsky’s Black Hawk helicopter is emerging as the leading candidate—if not the sole option—to replace the Air Force’s aging HH-60G Pave Hawk fleet. This comes after several other vendors announced this week that they wouldn’t be...

The Air Force is cutting personnel at Lajes Field, Azores, reducing its contingent there from a wing down to a group to meet Pentagon cost-cutting demands, announced Lajes officials on Thursday. “Lajes Field’s strategic mission is important and valuable, and...

The Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne has been hosting Air Guard representatives from across the United States this week for discussions on streamlining the Air Guard's ancillary training activities. The goal of this gathering is to devise the way "to reduce the ancillary training in the ANG by over 90 percent from what it currently is," states the wing's Dec. 13 release. Air Guard Director Lt. Gen. Bud Wyatt recently commissioned this event, according to the release. Wing spokesman MSgt. Darin Hubble told the Daily Report on Thursday that the participants are addressing three main areas: Total Force awareness training, expeditionary skills training, and combat arms training and maintenance. Although the powwow concludes on Friday, teams will be working throughout January to finalize the changes before the Feb. 1, 2013, deadline that Wyatt has established, said Hubble. The 122nd FW is an A-10 unit. (See also Fort Wayne's Journal Gazette report.)

The 563rd Rescue Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., recently deployed some 153 personnel and five HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters to NAS North Island, Calif., to participate, along with rescue airmen from other units, in the Navy’s Third Fleet Joint Task...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) on Thursday released the names of the GOP members whom he’s selected to oversee the HASC’s subcommittees in the 113th Congress that begins in January. Rep. Mac Thornberry (Tex.) will continue...

Lockheed Martin delivered Air Force Special Operations Command’s 12th new-build MC-130J Commando II tanker airplane to Cannon AFB, N.M., this week, announced the company. Aircraft 5710 left Lockheed Martin’s production plant in Marietta, Ga., bound for Cannon on Dec. 10,...

The Canadian government this week retreated from its commitment to procure the F-35 strike fighter, announcing that it is re-launching the search to replace its aged CF-18 Hornet fleet. The Royal Canadian Air Force requirements “that led to the selection...

Raytheon won a $1.5 million contract from DARPA for phase one of the agency’s Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements, or SeeMe, program, announced the company. Under SeeMe, DARPA envisions a constellation of low-cost, small-sized imagery satellites that could be...

Lockheed Martin delivered the first of the Iraqi air force’s C-130J transports earlier this week, announced the company. Staff Lt. Gen. Anwer Hamad Amen, Iraqi air force commander, accepted one of the first three C-130Js that Lockheed Martin is supplying...