Five A-10 attack jets, three HH-60G rescue helicopters, one MC-130H, and about 200 airmen will stay on an extended deployment in the Philippines following the annual Balikatan exercise to help patrol the South China Sea, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced...
Two Air Force units and a Marine Corps squadron are deploying to assist in the US-led fight against ISIS. A-10s and more than 500 airmen from the Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing deployed on April 12 for the...
US aircraft hit ISIS targets in Afghanistan with about 80 airstrikes through the end of March, the strong majority of the nearly 100 airstrikes conducted during the first three months of the year. The strikes, which occurred mostly in the...
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said she expects Congress to approve President Obama’s request to quadruple the funding for the European Reassurance Initiative in Fiscal 2017. Shaheen, speaking Thursday at an Atlantic Council event in Washington, D.C., said there is strong...
Colorado Springs, Colo. The commander of Air Force Space Command this week announced a new plan this week for how the Air Force should build a space force that is resilient and responsive to threats in space. On Tuesday, Gen....
Colorado Springs, Colo. Deterring potential adversaries in space and maintaining a secure space environment requires a “comprehensive and integrated approach to deterrence,” Adm. Cecil Haney, the head of US Strategic Command, said Thursday at the 32nd Space Symposium. Threats must...
Colorado Springs, Colo. The US on Monday entered into a space situational awareness agreement with United Arab Emirates, making it the 11th country to sign such data- and information-sharing agreements? with the US, Strategic Command boss Adm. Cecil Haney said...
The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved its version of the Fiscal 2017 military construction and Veterans Affairs bill Thursday. The bill provides $83 billion in discretionary spending, a $3.1 billion increase over Fiscal 2016, according to a SAC release. It...