Air Force Acting Secretary Eric Fanning told AFA’s Pacific Air & Space Symposium on Friday that the Air Force and the other services are engaged in a series of tough budget decisions, but the drills are showing that airpower is...
Responding to press reports on a new RAND survey showing lagging morale among airmen in the ICBM community, Air Force Acting Secretary Eric Fanning said Friday the service has actually been making a great deal of progress in its nuclear...
Pacific Air Forces assets continue to support relief operations in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, but they will soon be winding down their activities, said PACAF Commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle on Thursday at AFA’s Pacific Air & Space Symposium in...
There are more than 500,000 objects measuring one centimeter or greater on orbit that could pose a danger to US space assets, but the Air Force can only track about 23,000 of them, said Gen. William Shelton, Air Force Space...
While the Air Force has come a long way with its cyberspace operations, challenges from potential adversaries continue to increase, Gen. William Shelton, head of Air Force Space Command, told attendees of AFA’s Pacific Air & Space Symposium in Los...
Pacific Air Forces has a great deal of capability spread across its area of responsibility, but innovations from airmen at the squadron level are making the difference in how US Pacific Command and the Defense Department posture in the region,...
An unpublished RAND study commissioned by the Air Force and obtained by the Associated Press found that members of the nuclear missile force have low job satisfaction and often feel job-related “burnout,” according to the AP report published Nov. 20....
While the sequester is forcing the US to drastically reduce its military footprint, China continues to grow its own military capabilities, US-China Economic Security and Review Commission member Larry Wortzel told members of the House Armed Services Committee Nov. 20....
Congress must “clearly articulate” its support for the Air Force’s long-range strike bomber program if the United States is to preserve its long-range strike advantage, wrote Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.)—chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s seapower and projection forces...
AFA Chairman of the Board retired Lt. Gen. George Muellner said a proposed amendment to the Fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill, introduced by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), will have a “devastating impact on our national security and military readiness.” If...
US and Australian officials signed a statement of principles aimed at promoting and expanding defense cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. The nonbinding statement of principles is intended to “help guide” the two countries as they “put together a force posture agreement”...
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is calling on the Air Force Academy to “immediately terminate” an employee it says once advocated for gay conversion, according to a Nov. 19 letter addressed to Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning. Specifically, the...
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations recently activated its first-ever Office of Procurement Fraud to consolidate and bolster its counter-fraud efforts. The office is located at JB Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., according to OSI’s Nov. 20 release. “We have consolidated...
Two B-52 bomber crews flying a training mission over Alaska came to the aid of a Cessna pilot who became disoriented in bad weather; their assistance likely saved the pilot’s life, according to a release from Minot AFB, N.D. An...