The Senate on Thursday confirmed the nomination of White House Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan to be the next CIA director by a vote of 63 to 34. With the vote, “the Senate has recognized in John the qualities I value...
The first two F-35A strike fighters assigned to Nellis AFB, Nev., arrived this week at the desert base, announced Nellis officials. The airplanes, which will serve as developmental and operational test assets, touched down at Nellis on March 6, according...
North Korea on Thursday threatened a “preemptive nuclear attack” against the United States just prior to the UN Security Council unanimously approving a resolution tightening sanctions against the communist nation in response to its nuclear test last month. China and...
The Air Force may opt to lose more than three F-35 strike fighters from the Fiscal 2013 buy as a result of the budget sequester; it all depends on whether the service gets the authority to reprogram sequestered funds, said...
Some 55 US military personnel are participating alongside their counterparts in the Philippine armed forces in Operational Pacific Angel-Philippines, a humanitarian-assistance exercise in the southeast Asian nation sponsored by Pacific Air Forces. The six-day exercise runs through March 9, with...
Northrop Grumman successfully transferred radar data from an RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 40 remotely piloted aircraft to an E-8C JSTARS ground-surveillance airplane, announced the company. This exchange, which took place on Feb. 25, was the first collaborative effort to transfer...
The Air Force has saved more than $1 million so far in Fiscal 2013 by reducing temporary duty expenditures associated with the education of military training instructors, according to training officials at Sheppard AFB, Tex. The savings are the result...
H.R. 833, a bill introduced in the House that would prohibit the Department of Defense from rating the new Distinguished Warfare Medal as equal to, or higher than, the Purple Heart, had more than 40 co-sponsors as of March 7,...