The capability gap between the US Air Force and near-peer nations has implications for the global military balance as well as conflicts USAF could find itself fighting in the near future, service leaders told Congress on Friday. Speaking before the...

Demand for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance is driving the Air Force to move money into the mission from other areas, in an effort to keep up with increasing requests from combatant commanders, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Chief...

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told members of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel on Feb. 27 that the air campaign against ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria has about $1 billion since its beginning in August. The Air...

Though spending on the nuclear triad will rise in the coming years, US Strategic Command boss Adm. Cecil Haney told the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel Feb. 26 the near-term cost is necessary to preserve strategic deterrence tools....

Both the Long-Range Strike Bomber and the Long Range Standoff missile, which will replace the Air Force’s Air Launched Cruise Missile, are key modernization programs to maintain the viability of the US nuclear triad, US Strategic Command boss Adm. Cecil...

Operators at Buckley AFB, Colo., proved their ability to command all three types of missile warning satellites individually from the new, unified mission control center. Controllers with the 460th Operations Group successfully passed signals back and forth with Defense Support...

Testers from Nellis AFB, Nev., and Edwards AFB, Calif., teamed up earlier this month for HH-60G Pave Hawk door-gun live-fire testing at Edwards’ gun harmonizing range. “We needed to have a baseline for the GAU-18 dispersion, so we could prove...

Reserve pilots and loadmasters from Duke Field, Fla., are cross training to the Dornier C-146 Wolfhound light airlifter and preparing for the stand up a new squadron to operate it, officials announced. A total of six pilots and four loadmasters...