Ending years of speculation, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James unveiled the designation and an artist’s concept of the service’s Long-Range Strike Bomber at AWS16. Designated the B-21—senior service leaders said the nomenclature is meant to evoke “21st century”—the flying-wing...
The Air Force will hold a service-wide contest to name the new B-21 bomber, Secretary Deborah Lee James announced at AWS16. James said she’s asking all members of the Air Force “family”—uniformed, civilians, and family members alike—to “learn more about...
The Air Force is looking to add 6,000 Active Duty airmen as it recovers from deep cuts to its ranks, and Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said she has the authority to do more. The Fiscal 2017 budget request...
The US military is more constrained in using a cyber tool against an enemy than nearly any other type of weapon, a former senior policy advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at AWS16. “When we...
The Air Force is happy with the way the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center is going, and has requested funding to continue it past its original end date in 2016, Air Force Space Command Commander Gen. John Hyten said...
There’s no re-engining program planned for the B-52, despite Global Strike Command leaders arguing hard in the last budget cycle that it would make sense to undertake one, according to Air Force Materiel Command chief Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski. Speaking with...
The Air Force’s follow-on hypersonic test projects fail to leverage the progress made with the X-51 Waverider and potentially jeopardize development of a key, strategic capability, former Air Force Chief Scientist Mark Lewis said. “We had a moment in time...
The Air Force will add two new locations for remotely piloted aircraft operations within the continental United States, and look to build new overseas locations as it builds its RPA force. Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, said...
Though remotely piloted aircraft are sometimes denigrated as unethical, they allow the US to project power without projecting vulnerability and actually allow for more ethical oversight than any other means of force application, retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, dean of...
US Air Forces in Europe has a “whole slew” of ways it plans to spend its share of the European Reassurance Initiative funding, which the administration wants to quadruple. The Fiscal 2017 budget request calls fo?r $3.4 billion in military...
The Obama Administration’s proposed Fiscal 2017 defense budget is $17 billion less than previously planned, and the brunt of the cuts will fall on acquisition and training, said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) during a roundtable meeting with reporters Thursday. “It’s...