The Senate late Thursday approved the Fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill by a vote of 84 to 15. The legislation now goes to the White House for President Obama’s signature. “Tonight, we passed legislation that is good for our national...
The C-5M Super Galaxy could reach initial operational capability as early as January, officials said. The Air Force accepted the 16th C-5M Super Galaxy from Lockheed Martin on Thursday at the company’s Marietta, Ga. plant, in anticipation of ferrying it...
The journey of the US military from a force built around equipment and structures suited to industrial age warfare, to one modeled on the challenges of the information age is at the core of the problem the Quadrennial Defense Review...
This year’s Strategic Choices and Management Review provided essential knowledge needed to complete the Quadrennial Defense Review, Maj. Gen. Steven Kwast told attendees at a Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies event in Arlington, Va., on Thursday. The SCMR was “essential...
The Air Force’s first production C-17 garnered new laurels as the first Globemaster III to surpass 20,000 flying hours during a sortie from JB Charleston, S.C., Dec. 19. The Spirit of Charleston logged the milestone a little over 20 years...
In the wake of recent organizational changes announced by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, the Office of the Secretary of Defense has made a series of “resources neutral” adjustments to the personnel and authorities of the Office of the Undersecretary...
Boeing recently delivered the last of 500 Focused Lethality Munitions under its current contract with the Air Force on time and within budget, the company announced Dec. 19. The GBU-39B is a variant of Boeing’s collateral-limiting Small Diameter Bomb that...
Retired Maj. Gen. Rick Goddard, former commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, is helping restore the F-100 Super Sabre he flew in Vietnam 45 years ago. Work on the aircraft, serial No. 56-2995, began three years ago and...
Airpower Classics is a new, 136-page, coffee-table size, hardbound book (with laminated dust jacket) that captures the vintage aircraft from Air Force Magazine’s one-page Airpower Classics series. The first 60 aircraft from this imaginative series have been printed in full...