President Obama nominated Lt. Gen. David Goldfein for a fourth star and reassignment as Air Force vice chief of staff, announced service officials on Tuesday. Goldfein, the Joint Staff’s director since August 2013, would succeed Gen. Larry Spencer, who has...
Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson is the nominee to take charge of Air Education and Training Command at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, announced the Air Force on Tuesday. Roberson would remain at his current rank for the position since the Air Force is...
The Air Force expects to have industry input in hand by “this summer” for re-engining the B-52H bomber fleet in the near future, according to Air Force Global Strike Command boss Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson. In preliminary discussions “almost every...
Edwards AFB, Calif.—California’s prolonged drought is threatening the utility of Rogers Dry Lake, the centerpiece of the runway complex here. Spaces below the lakebed where water used to collect are now empty voids, and fissures “are coming up to the...
A dozen A-10s and some 350 airmen from the Michigan Air National Guard’s 127th Wing deployed to an undisclosed air base in the Persian Gulf region to take over the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, unit spokesman TSgt....
Last year President Obama unveiled a request to appropriate billions in a new Counterterrorism Partnership Fund over a five-year period starting in Fiscal 2015 to build partnership capacity with allies around the world. At Tuesday’s hearing of the Senate Armed...
Budget sequestration’s return would impact combat support services that special operations forces and counterterrorism activities rely on, like logistics and, in particular, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance work, warned Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict Michael Lumpkin on Tuesday....
Air Combat Command boss Gen. Hawk Carlisle, along with officials in ACC’s plans and programs division, called together experts from the defense industry, academia, and research organizations for an “agile and resilient” command and control innovation summit at JB Langley-Eustis,...
Members of the California Air National Guard’s 163rd Reconnaissance Wing earlier this month flew the unit’s final mission with the MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft, according to a unit release. After more than eight and a half years of consecutive...