The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a series of reports and assessments from the Air Force regarding the cost estimates and projections regarding the Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program, following the revision of...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is asking Defense Secretary Ash Carter to make sure the delayed KC-46A tanker program does not fail. “All too often under our current defense acquisition system, the department has...

Two MQ-1 Predators and about 70 airmen from the Texas Air National Guard’s 147th Reconnaissance Wing left for Lielvarde AB, Latvia, this weekend, according to US European Command. The airmen will remain in Europe until the middle of September, testing...

SSgt. Kresston Davis, a security forces journeyman from the 908th Security Forces Squadron at Maxwell AFB, Ala., is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2015. Davis deployed to Manas, Kyrgyzstan, where she provided unwavering...

The Civil Air Patrol is now included in the Total Force when conducting missions for the Air Force as the official auxiliary, the Air Force announced this month. The service expanded the descriptions of the Total Force in the updated...

Reservists with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flew four missions into Tropical Storm Erika from St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and now have moved to Homestead ARB, Fla., to continue flights into Erika in support of the National...

Royal Thai Air Force combat controllers recently worked alongside US Air Force air mobility airmen at Red Flag Alaska 15-3 to build capability and improve communications integration and mobility operations management, according to JB Elmendorf-Richardson officials. Flight Sgt. 1st Class...

Some 40 military personnel from various African countries are visiting JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., between Aug. 30 and Sept. 4 to participate in “African Partnership Flight,” a program hosted by the 621st Contingency Response Wing, according to JBMDL officials. The APF...

The US Pacific Command-sponsored “Pacific Angel” humanitarian assistance and capacity building program recently wrapped in the Philippines after a week of training events and outreach activities to residents of Bohol Province, according to Pacific Air Forces release. Service members from...