Potentially live samples of anthrax were shipped to at least 51 government and private laboratories in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and three foreign countries, officials announced Wednesday. The numbers of labs and states involved are double what the...

Samples of anthrax are routinely sent by commercial shipping services from a Defense Department laboratory to dozens of government, academic, and corporate institutions to facilitate research on detection and treatment of the potentially deadly biological agent, a chemical and biological...

The House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal 2016 defense spending bill by a voice vote on June 2. The bill, which includes $578.6 billion in discretionary funding and $88.4 billion in overseas contingency operations funds, now heads to the full...

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said space is no longer a “peaceful sanctuary” and USAF must change the way it thinks about the domain. “Space is integral to every aspect of our nation’s defense,” said James during her keynote...

E-8C JSTARS, staging from Al Udeid AB, Qatar, recently surpassed 100,000 flying hours in direct support of US Central Command operations. “The tasking in the CENTCOM theater during the last 13 years is a clear indication of the value and...

Air Force Special Operations Command stood up the 12th Special Operations Squadron as its designated remotely piloted aircraft launch-and-recovery unit during a ceremony at Cannon AFB, N.M., last week. “This is the first squadron of its kind,” Lt. Col. Josh...

C-130Js from Ramstein AB, Germany, flew tactical support training alongside Israeli Air Force C-130s during the two-week Exercise Noble Shirley 2015, at Nevatim AB, Israel. “This exercise gave us the ability to practice in austere landing condition in a controlled...