The House Appropriations Committee released the defense subcommittee’s draft of the Fiscal 2016 defense spending bill on Tuesday, which includes $578.6 billion in discretionary funds—an increase of $24.4 billion above Fiscal 2015 funding levels and $800 million above the President’s...

The Air Force recently stood up the first Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team—a “wide pool” of experts across the service, known as the air superiority 2030 team, tasked by Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh to consider USAF’s future air superiority...

Raytheon is appealing a decision by a federal claims court, which cleared the way for the Air Force to review bids by rival companies for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar system, company spokesman Michael Nachschen told Air Force Magazine. The...

The F-35 schoolhouse at Luke AFB, Ariz., began training its first formal class of student pilots earlier this month, officials announced. “The pilots going through the training right now are going to be staying here at Luke to be instructors,”...

Adm. James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strongly cautioned potential adversaries against shooting missiles at the US or its allies. “We want potential adversaries to know that not only is there a price for attacking us...

The Air Force’s Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill AFB, Utah, is upgrading and modifying two of the Marine Corps’ F-35B Lightning IIs to help the service hit its F-35 initial operating capability target in July. “The F-35 program is...

The 36th Contingency Response Group has helped the Nepal army download four million pounds of cargo from 80 aircraft since arriving at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 5, according to a May 18 release. That’s the...