The Air Force completed the process of converting each Minuteman ICBM in the fleet to carrying a single warhead and no longer having multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, announced service officials. Removal of the last extra warhead from a Minuteman...
During a ceremony at Scott AFB, Ill., Lt. Gen. Carlton Everhart assumed command of 18th Air Force. Everhart filled the leadership vacancy created when Gen. Darren McDew, who had led the numbered air force since August 2012, left in April...
The House approved H.R. 4870, its version of the Fiscal 2015 defense spending bill, providing $491 billion in discretionary funding and $79.4 billion for overseas contingency operations, including the war in Afghanistan. Passage came on June 20 by a vote...
The Air Force continues to display ambivalence toward its role and responsibility in the nuclear deterrent aspects of national security strategy, writes John Michael Loh, retired Air Force general, in an opinion piece for Air Force Magazine. Consecutive Nuclear Posture...
The system designed to protect the United States from an attack by long-range ballistic missiles intercepted a target missile in space during a test over the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, announced the Pentagon. This was the first time in the...
The three B-52H and two B-2s bombers that deployed earlier this month to RAF Fairford, England, have concluded their training activities in Europe and are returning home. The bombers completed their training sorties on June 20, states a Royal Air...
One of the biggest hurdles the Air Force faces in safeguarding information in the cyber realm is dealing with social media, according to Frank Konieczny, the service’s chief technology officer. “Social media is a problem for us,” he said on...
The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $223 million contract for work on updating more C-5 Galaxy transports to the new C-5M Super Galaxy configuration. The new contract, awarded on June 18, supports Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program upgrades for...
Civil Air Patrol Cessna 172s flew low-altitude sorties to provide target identification and engagement training to fighter aircraft during the Red Flag-Alaska exercise that concluded on Sunday. “CAP provides a unique capability by simulating the ‘low and slow flyer,'” said...