An MC-12 surveillance aircraft crashed in southern Afghanistan on April 27, claiming the lives of four airmen, announced Air Forces Central Command on Sunday. According to a Pentagon release, the deceased airmen are: Capt. Brandon L. Cyr, 28, of Woodbridge,...

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley will step down as the service’s leader on June 21, he announced on Friday. That will be five years to the day that he began his tenure, first as Acting Secretary and then, beginning on...

The Obama Administration informed lawmakers in a letter on Thursday that it believes the regime of Bashar al Assad has employed the chemical agent sarin in the Syrian civil war. “Our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence...

The Pentagon’s Fiscal 2014 budget request proposes abandoning the Operationally Responsive Space Office in favor of integrating its business models and rapid-fielding practices into the service’s normal space acquisition processes, Gen. William Shelton, head of Air Force Space Command, told...

Don’t look for any details about the Air Force’s Long Range Strike Bomber project anytime soon, said Secretary Michael Donley. LRS-B details won’t emerge for “I think, several years down the road” because “we think the capabilities it will have...

Sixty-five combat air patrols will likely be “the high point” of medium-altitude remotely piloted aircraft, such as the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper, said Air Force Secretary Michael Donley. There’s an internal debate within the service on “the balance between...

Suicide prevention is not just a medical issue, but also a community and leadership matter, Lt. Gen. Thomas Travis, Air Force surgeon general, told lawmakers. Prevention requires contact and interaction in addition to raising awareness, he said in testimony before...

President Obama has nominated Maj. Gen. Douglas Robb for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general for his new assignment as director of the Defense Health Agency in the Pentagon, announced the Defense Department on April 25. Robb, a 1979...

DARPA is in the early stages of an “air dominance initiative,” a collaborative effort with the Air Force and Navy to examine capabilities and technologies that could create a “generational shift” in US air superiority, said DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar....

Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson AFB, Colo., held its annual certification training for the C-130 aircrews that operate the Modular Airborne Firefighting System, announced Air Mobility Command officials. “We are providing annual MAFFS certification training for...

The Defense Department and Energy Department have requested $2.6 billion in Fiscal 2014 to curtail the flow of weapons of mass destruction, said Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), chairwoman of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s emerging threats and capabilities panel, this...

Officials at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., announced they are implementing the “Better Foods, Better Bodies” campaign that the Air Force launched in March on a trial basis through May. Langley is one of the three BFBB pilot locations, along with JB...