The Air Force is asking Congress for $114.1 billion in Fiscal 2014 to fund its base activities, said Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton, the service’s budget deputy, on Wednesday. This includes: $46.6 billion for operations and maintenance; $29.2 billion for military...

The Defense Department is requesting $526.6 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund defense programs in its base budget for Fiscal 2014, announced Pentagon officials on Wednesday. “Even while restructuring the force to become smaller and leaner and once again...

Unlike the drawdown the US military experienced in the 1990s, America faces a far more diverse array of national security challenges today as it withdraws and retools from the decade-plus war in Afghanistan, the Defense Department leadership told reporters on...

The Defense Department has asked Congress to provide $14.6 billion for its classified and unclassified intelligence activities next fiscal year, announced Pentagon officials on Wednesday. This amount represents DOD’s base request for the military intelligence program; department officials will submit...

An F-16 pilot’s failure to recover his aircraft from an inverted stall, along with the pilot’s complacency and errors in applying recovery procedures, led to the fighter’s crash in late December east of Fresno, Calif., announced Air Combat Command officials....

The 363rd Training Squadron at Sheppard AFB, Tex., graduated its first class of airmen from the Air Force’s new remotely piloted aircraft armament apprentice course, according to a base release. The five airmen graduated from the 20-day course on April...

Lt. Col. Kevin Aunapu, operations director for Air Force Reserve Command’s 69th Fighter Squadron, reached 3,000 flight hours in the F-16, according to officials at Luke AFB, Ariz., where he is stationed. Aunapu achieved this milestone in late March, joining...

The Federal Aviation Administration overturned its decision to shutter the air traffic control tower at Kingsley Field, Ore., according to officials with the state Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing, the F-15 unit that operates there. The tower was on...

Alaska Air National Guard personnel rescued a 41-year-old researcher who was on a snowmobile when he fell about 80 feet into a glacier crevasse while conducting snow and ice tests, according to an Air Guard release. The rescue took place...