A year-long continuing resolution would cause a funding crisis similar to that caused by sequestration in 2013, and it would start in May, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. Stephen Wilson said Wednesday. Speaking at a McAleese/Credit Suisse conference...

It will take about eight years to “dig ourselves out” of the readiness hole the Air Force is in, vice chief of staff Gen. Stephen Wilson said Wednesday during a McAleese/Credit Suisse conference in Washington, D.C. In order to reach...

If the national leadership decides to modernize the US nuclear arsenal, “you can forget about readiness or modernization” of the conventional force, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday. Smith, speaking at a...

The Air Force is considering whether it will retire its F-15C fleet and replace it with F-16s with upgraded active electronically scanned array radars, service leaders told House legislators on Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Scott Rice, director of the Air National...

The Air Force is adding $100 million to its Penetrating Counter-Air or Next-Generation Air Dominance spending request for 2017, but the added funds don’t signal a change in the program, the service’s top uniformed acquisition official said Wednesday. Lt. Gen....

The US will set up “interim zones of stability” in the fight against ISIS, but allied nations must do more militarily and financially to combat the group, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday. Speaking at a meeting of the...

The “big data” revolution means that in the not-too-distant future, “every airman” will have a device like the Amazon Alexa or even an “R2-D2,” vice chief of staff Gen. Stephen Wilson predicted Wednesday. These devices will “sift through vast amounts...

The Pentagon’s supplemental request calls for a $1.8 billion increase in Air Force aircraft procurement, a step that could help move forward the deployment of new aircraft to the Air Force’s missile fields. During a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing...

The recent deployment of US forces inside Syria does not amount to an “invasion” and is legal under current authority, though a new authorization by Congress could go a long way to showing the public’s support to the anti-ISIS mission,...