The Long-Range Strike Bomber contract—expected to be awarded in September—will be a cost-plus arrangement, but will include options for “five aircraft production lots,” which will be on a fixed-price basis, Air Force officials told Air Force Magazine. If the Air...

The first flight of the all-up KC-46 tanker, which was to have taken place in the spring and then slipped to August, has been delayed again, to “about a month out from the previous planned date of late August/early September,”...

The US and South Korea began the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise on Aug. 17 amid heightened tensions on the peninsula. The yearly command and control exercise simulates defense of the South from external attack, according to US Forces Korea...

US Central Command released a 569-page “command climate report” on Tuesday that looked at what Army SSgt. Robert Bales’ superiors knew before his murderous rampage in Kandahar province in 2012. Bales, an infantryman assigned to JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., pleaded guilty...

A pair of California Air National Guard F-15Cs scrambled to intercept a non-responsive civil aircraft that later crashed into the Pacific Ocean last week, NORAD spokesman Michael Kucharek told Air Force Magazine on Aug. 18. “Although this mission did not...

The 65th Air Base Wing at Lajes Field in the Portuguese Azores redesignated on Aug. 14 as a group in line with ongoing efforts to streamline base manning and services. “This is not a shift in the commitment of the...

The California Air National Guard will create a new wing to oversee its increasing space, cyber, and intelligence missions. The move will expand the number of Guard wings in the state to five, tying it with New York for most...

Airmen deployed to Afghanistan are working directly with local air force personnel to repair and operate aircraft, part of the service’s mission to help Afghans stand up their military. Airmen assigned to the 440th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron in Kabul...

The Ohio Air National Guard’s 179th Airlift Wing did not receive its eighth and final C-130H on Aug. 4, as stated in Tuesday’s Daily Report. The unit’s announcement that eight C-130Hs “filled out the fleet again” at Mansfield ANGB, Ohio,...