The Air Force’s new Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office could save the service time and money, its director told Air Force Magazine. Jack Blackhurst said the 15-person Air Force Research Laboratory entity, which reached initial operating capability in September,...

The Air Force’s new Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office could carry out experiments to determine whether it makes sense for the Air Force to buy nondevelopmental light attack aircraft in the future, Director Jack Blackhurst told Air Force Magazine....

The Philippines’ defense minister on Tuesday walked back some recent claims by that country’s president regarding US military relations, saying exercises would just be scaled back instead of completely canceled. Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana said joint military options will become...

Iraqi forces on their approach into the ISIS-held city of Mosul discovered a mass grave containing about 100 bodies, another sign of the bloody rule the group has exerted over the country’s second-largest city. The grave, found in an agricultural...

Senior State Department officials on Tuesday outlined US plans for humanitarian missions after the completion of combat operations in Mosul, Iraq. The officials, speaking on background with reporters on a conference call, said operations had so far displaced 33,000 people,...

The 325th Communications Squadron at Tyndall AFB, Fla., has become the first Air Combat Command unit to join a program aimed at ramping up network security for missions throughout the Air Force. The Air Force-wide program, which launched in February...

US defense sales internationally totaled $33.6 billion in Fiscal 2016—a large drop from Fiscal 2015’s total of $47 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday. The 2016 total included $2.9 billion in Foreign Military Financing-funded cases, $5? billion in...

In coordination with USAF and the Republic of Korea Air Force, Britain’s Royal Air Force sent its largest deployment to Korea since the 1950s this month to participate in joint exercise Invincible Shield, according to a press release. The exercise...