An Air Force C-130J assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron? crashed at Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan, around 12 a.m. local time on Oct. 2, killing the six US crewmembers and five civilian passengers, according to an Air Forces Central Command...

The House of Representatives on Thursday approved the National Defense Authorization Act with a vote of 270 to 156, sending the funding bill to the Senate. Lawmakers came to an agreement on the $612 billion bill Tuesday afternoon. It blocks...

The Air Force released the final request for proposals for GPS III services on Sept. 30, officially opening the door to competition for national security space launches. Companies have until Nov. 16 to submit proposals, though California-based SpaceX and the...

Iraq has not received enough air support from the US-led coalition against ISIS and would welcome airstrikes from Russia, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told France 24 television at the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Coalition spokesman Army Col. Steve...

The Iraqi push against ISIS has stalled in key areas such as Ramadi because Iraqi forces were not trained properly to fight the right away and have not been equipped properly for the battle, a spokesman for the US-led coalition...

US and Russian officials met via teleconference on Thursday to discuss how to protect their aircrews in Syria as Russia continued its airstrikes. Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said the meeting focused on basic proposals for aircrews, such as which...

Finding enough ISIS targets quickly enough to keep coalition strike aircraft busy is limiting the pace of operations over Iraq and Syria, said Lt. Gen. Bob Otto, head of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance on the Air Staff. “We are challenged...

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance boss Lt. Gen. Bob Otto said he hasn’t discussed Lockheed Martin’s proposed U-2 follow-on platform with the company but he is enthusiastic that industry is putting forward ideas. “I think it’s exciting that industry is coming...

The Defense Department has restricted pilots weighing less than 136 pounds from flying the F-35 because of an issue with the ejection seat, the F-35 program office told Air Force Magazine. Lighter pilots are at greater risk of injury if...

The Air Force’s “low and declining rates of effective competition for service contracts” has researchers perplexed. A Sept. 30 study conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that of the 15-percent decline in the rate of...