The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Tuesday to approve the nomination of Gen. David Goldfein to be the next Air Force Chief of Staff, according to a SASC spokesman. If approved by the full Senate, Goldfein will replace Gen. Mark...
The Air Force on June 28 introduced its first of 21 new HH-60G Pave Hawks built to replace helicopters lost in combat since 2001. The aircraft was unveiled during a ceremony in Huntsville, Ala., as part of an operational loss...
Enlisted airmen will begin training to fly the RQ-4 Global Hawk this September, Air Combat Command chief Gen. Hawk Carlisle said Tuesday. Speaking during an enlisted all-call that was broadcast on Facebook Live, Carlisle said career enlisted aviators will make...
The command responsibility for the Civil Air Patrol-US Air Force has been transferred from Air Education and Training Command to Air Combat Command and assigned to 1st Air Force, reflecting the extensive role CAP plays in homeland security missions. The...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program seeking to close the critical gap in the performance of conventional turbine jet engines and the scramjet or ramjet engines necessary to achieve hypersonic speeds. The goal of the...
Drawing inspiration from ancient myths, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with its appropriately named ICARUS program to create delivery vehicles that vanish—not go unseen, but actually disintegrate—after unloading. DARPA kicked off ICARUS—Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems...
Belgium this week deployed six F-16s to join the fight against ISIS. The aircraft deployed from the Kleine Brogel airbase to Jordan for sorties in Iraq and Syria, the Belgian news agency VRT reported. “It is important that we remain...
The world’s largest combat search and rescue exercise has a new planning committee. The Air Force on June 24 activated Det. 1 of the 414th Combat Training Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., which will be responsible for planning exercise Angel...