BONE Transplant

The Air Force’s B-1 fleet, along with its Long-Range Strike Bomber program, is moving from the oversight of Air Combat Command to Air Force Global Strike Command, effective Oct. 1, announced the service on Monday. The 63 B-1s in the...

Nellis’ Lightning Nexus

The 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Ariz., conducted its first training deployment with the F-35A strike fighter, sending airmen and 10 of its jets to Nellis AFB, Nev., for two weeks, according to a release. The Luke F-35As flew...

US, France Expand Space Data Sharing

US Strategic Command and the French defense ministry strengthened an existing agreement for the sharing of space situational awareness data, announced the command on Monday. The two organizations commemorated the signing of the new arrangement on April 14 in Colorado...

GPS IIF Satellite Transitions to Operator Control

Air Force Space Command earlier this month transferred control authority of the latest on-orbit GPS IIF navigation satellite to the airmen of the 2nd Space Operations Squadron and Air Force Reserve Command’s 19th SOPS at Schriever AFB, Colo., according to...

Building the Cyber Force

The Defense Department is about halfway to the goal of fielding a ready force of 133 teams of cyber specialists by the end of Fiscal 2016 to protect the US military’s information network and support US combatant commanders worldwide, said...

Keeping Out of Harm’s Way

Airmen at Kadena AB, Japan, this month practiced non-combatant evacuations with sailors and soldiers, processing and safely moving some 150 Okinawa military families, during a mock emergency drill earlier this month, announced wing officials. Working with Red Cross representatives and...

Academy Gets Air Guard Military Trainer

MSgt. Donald Steven Sanders, a veteran KC-135 maintainer with the Tennessee Air National Guard’s 134th Air Refueling Wing at McGhee Tyson ANG Base, became the first Air Guard member selected to serve as an academy military trainer at the Air...

No Jet Left Behind

The Missouri Air National Guard is moving three static jets of the former 131st Fighter Wing in St. Louis to Whiteman Air Force Base to join the unit’s successor, the 131st Bomb Wing, according to a unit video posted on...