F-22 officers with the 3rd Wing at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, have devised a concept for dispatching a contingent of F-22s with a smaller logistics package to any forward location and having the fighters combat-ready at the new location—all within 24...
The Air Force this week presented its Fiscal 2015 program objective memorandum—the service’s five-year spending forecast—to Pentagon acquisition executive Frank Kendall, said Richard Lombardi, the Air Force’s deputy assistant secretary for acquisition integration, on Thursday. The presentation took place on...
The submittal of the Air Force’s Fiscal 2015 program objective memorandum to the Office of the Secretary of Defense means “the game has begun,” in hashing out the grand Fiscal 2015 defense budget, said Richard Lombardi, the Air Force’s deputy...
Air Force Reserve Command on Thursday inactivated the 917th Fighter Group, an A-10 unit, during a ceremony at Barksdale AFB, La. The group’s inactivation is the result of the force structure changes that Congress approved for the Air Force in...
Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs Heidi Grant said her office is talking with partners and allies around the world about innovative ways to build air capability and capacity. “In some regions, there are huge land forces...
As the Air Force puts more effort into its “partnering culture,” and reaches out to emerging allies around the world, the service is making inroads in regions where its presence has not been comparatively historically robust, Heidi Grant, the Air...
The Pentagon is shifting a fleet of remotely piloted vehicles from Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti to an undisclosed remote location in the Horn of Africa nation, reported Voice of America. The move reportedly comes at the request of Djiboutian government...
DARPA is launching the Experimental Spaceplane, or XS-1, program to develop a fully reusable unmanned vehicle that provides routine aircraft-like access to space to launch small-sized satellites into low Earth orbit. The goal is to operate with a small ground...