The world isn’t moving to zero nuclear weapons anytime soon, making it imperative for the United States to proceed with modernizing and recapitalizing the nation’s nuclear deterrent force, said Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, Air Force Global Strike Command boss. Not...

Despite a historic convergence of strategic factors—the end of a long war, a new strategic posture, and historic budget uncertainty—the Quadrennial Defense Review will likely not be “transformational,” said Maj. Gen. Steven Kwast, the Air Force’s QDR office director. Some...

The Stimson Center, a national security think tank in Washington, D.C., issued a report on Sept. 24 outlining a defense strategy designed to cut about $50 billion from the Defense Department’s annual budget, yet still advance US national security. The...

The Air Force is planning to shift the sustainment of its Minuteman III launch facilities and launch control centers to a depot-maintenance model by 2017, said Maj. Gen. Sandra Finan, commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland...

The Air Force aims to have the Long Range Strike Bomber available for the nuclear mission shortly after it enters the fleet for conventional roles, said Lt. Gen. James Kowalski, head of Air Force Global Strike Command. The Air Force...

Maj. Robert Marshall and Maj. Mark Uberuaga, co-founders of the Air Force’s Seven Summits Challenge, assembled Air Force-led military teams that climbed to the highest point on each continent. Over the course of eight years, these teams scaled the summit...

The first F-35A strike fighter destined for depot maintenance arrived at the Ogden Air Logistics Complex on the grounds of Hill AFB, Utah. This airframe touched down at Hill on Sept 20, according to a base release. Assigned to the...

Aurora Flight Sciences’ Orion remotely piloted aircraft recently completed its first flight, announced the company. The test of the long-endurance RPA took place on a range in the western United States on Aug. 24, states the company’s Sept. 17 release....