Colorado Springs, Colo.—Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James on Thursday reiterated the service’s efforts to facilitate competition and innovation in space launch. In her presentation at the 31st Space Symposium here, she told attendees the Air Force has a four-point...

Colorado Springs, Colo.—The Air Force expects the intelligence community will finally have access this summer to critical imagery and data from Space Based Infrared System satellites, said service Secretary Deborah Lee James on Thursday at the 31st Space Symposium here....

Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh has assigned Maj. Gen. Jerry Harris to be Air Combat Command’s vice commander, announced the Air Force on Thursday. Harris will replace Maj. Gen. James Post, who was removed from the position earlier this...

Congress should adopt recommendations of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission dealing with enhancing the current military retirement system, AFA and four partner organizations told leaders of the House and Senate defense policy committees this week. “We urge the...

The recently completed Iraqi offensive against ISIS combatants in Tikrit, Iraq, showed that a combination of conventional Iraqi troops, US airstrikes and advisory support, and Iraqi irregular forces can effectively roll back the terrorist group’s advances, said the Defense Department...

China’s aggressive reclamation activity in the South China Sea has the potential to give the country “de facto control” over many of the region’s strategic waterways, Navy Adm. Samuel Locklear, head of US Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services...

Despite the fact there’s been no verifiable test of North Korea’s road-mobile KN-08 ICBM, the US military must assume the missile can carry a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States, said top US commanders in the...

The pilot of an F-16 from the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa AB, Japan, declared an in-flight emergency and was forced to divert to the nearby Aomori civilian regional airport due to an engine oil leak, reported Stars and Stripes....

Air Force Space Command merged its program offices for space-based missile warning and defense weather systems into a new, single entity, announced Space and Missile Systems Center officials. The newly activated Remote Sensing Systems Directorate “will accelerate the pace of...

The French government agreed to supply India with 36 Dassault Rafale fighters to meet the Indian Air Force’s urgent need, according to both nations. “In view of the critical operational necessity for multirole combat aircraft for the Indian Air Force,...