The Air Force plans to release an “invitation to participate” to industry Friday for an experiment that could lead to a new light attack aircraft. Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., USAF’s top uniformed acquisition chief, emphasized at an AFA-sponsored breakfast...

The Air Force on Thursday identified the three special operations airmen killed in Wednesday’s U-28A crash near Cannon AFB, N.M. Capt. Andrew Becker, 33, was a pilot for the 318th Special Operations Squadron at Cannon. Becker was from Novi, Mich.,...

The Air Force’s recent preliminary design review of the B-21 bomber—the second PDR of the program, the first one having taken place during the contract competition —seems to have been driven by a wish to regain momentum and make sure...

The Department of Defense announced its supplemental request for $30 billion in additional appropriations for fiscal year 2017 on Thursday, which includes $24.9 billion in base budget funding and $5.1 billion for overseas contingency operations. The Pentagon is asking lawmakers...

President Donald Trump released a budget blueprint for fiscal year 2018 on Thursday that includes $574 billion in Department of Defense spending and $65 billion in overseas contingency operations spending. Excluding the OCO money and adding non-DOD defense spending, the...

The Senate introduced bipartisan legislation on Wednesday to provide 2,500 additional visas for the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program. The program allows Afghan interpreters who supported the US mission in Afghanistan to apply for visas to live in the US....

President Trump on Thursday nominated a new number two for the Pentagon, along with multiple Pentagon senior officials and the department’s head of program evaluation. Patrick M. Shanahan, Boeing’s senior vice president of supply chain and operations, is nominated to...