President Obama vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act late Thursday afternoon, a move Republican members of Congress derided as a partisan political game that puts US troops at risk. Obama said in a veto ceremony at the White House that...

One US service member died during a rescue operation early Oct.? 22 in Hawijah, Iraq, that freed 70 captives held by ISIS, including more than 20 members of the Iraqi Security Forces. Defense Secretary Ash Carter approved the operation, which...

Air Force Global Strike Command named the top bomber and ICBM wings during a ceremony marking the conclusion of the annual Global Strike Challenge at Barksdale AFB, La. The 509th Bomb Wing from Whiteman AFB, Mo., and the Missouri Air...

The KC-46A program’s first test aircraft arrived at Edwards AFB, Calif., Oct. 15, for two weeks of specialized trials, officials announced. The provisioned 767-2C, EMD-1, will undertake ground-effect characterization and fatigue testing in the fuel-receiver role. “For ground effects, Edwards...

To understand the needs in future combat, the Air Force can’t go it alone, said Maj. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson, Air Combat Command’s intelligence director. There is a coming avalanche of big data, with new fifth generation aircraft collecting intel, along...

The Air Force’s current tactics, techniques, and procedures for analyzing and acting on intelligence will not keep pace with a coming onslaught of big data, and the service needs to begin working on ways to operate with allies to establish...

The military must change the culture so that every soldier, sailor, airman, marine, and civilian recognizes that “they’re under attack all the time,” Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of US Strategic Command, told defense reporters Thursday in Washington, D.C. While cyber...

The Romanian air force is preparing to receive its first F-16s next year by training with Alabama Air National Guard F-16 pilots and maintainers deployed to Romania for Exercise Dacian Viper this month. “This is the multi-role fighter that the...