Greg Hadley

Starting June 1, enlisted Airmen will be able to swap assignments—with restrictions. The Air Force announced its new enlisted assignment swap program May 25, eight months after Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass first delighted the crowd at AFA’s Air, Space & ...

After a change of plans, the F-35 is headed to the Pacific Northwest. Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore., will be home to the Air Force’s third formal training unit for the F-35A, the service announced May 25. In 2020, the Air Force announced plans to establish ...

An Airman died May 24 while deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve the Pentagon announced May 25. Maj. Stephen Khou, 36, died in a non-combat related incident, the Department of Defense said in a statement. The incident is under investigation. 

As the Space Force closes in on standards for its ground-breaking health and physical fitness program, USSF announced plans May 24 for an expansive study of thousands of volunteer Guardians to share data from wearable fitness trackers. Now through June 30, Guardians will be offered a wearable ...

Promotions for new master sergeants remained under 20 percent for the third year in a row, as retention held strong and increases in end strength leveled off, the Air Force announced May 25 before the finalized list is released May 31. Some 4,998 technical sergeants ...

President Joe Biden will announce he is nominating Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on May 25, a senior administration official confirmed to Air & Space Forces Magazine. Biden will make ...

As Air Force officials look to space to fill future gaps in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, the Space Force itself is still working on how it will fulfill that mission—and what capabilities it will need to have for itself, the head of Space Operations Command ...

The Pentagon lacks oversight of potentially millions of spare parts for the F-35, a new Government Accountability Office report states—meaning the F-35 Joint Program Office has not been able to review losses worth tens of millions of dollars in recent years. 

Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, has been tapped to gain a fourth star and move into the top job at CYBERCOM and the National Security Agency. If his nomination is approved by the Senate, Haugh would become the first Airman to ...

The B-2 is back in the air. Air Force Global Strike Command shared a video of the B-2 Spirit taking off and landing from Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., on May 22—the stealth bomber’s first flight in months after a safety pause. 

A new bill introduced in Congress by a retired Air Force general aims to bolster the Air National Guard’s fighter fleet—but a top service official told Air & Space Forces Magazine the legislation as it stands would create issues for the Air Force and face significant ...

Sky Warden, the modified crop-duster U.S. Special Operations Command picked as the winner of its Armed Overwatch competition, has entered low-rate initial production, and the first aircraft is scheduled to be delivered in October, a SOCOM spokesman told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The combatant command ...

An experimental directed energy weapon developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory successfully disabled a swarm of drones last month—its first test on such a scale. The Tactical High-power Operational Responder, or THOR, has been in development for years now, generating high levels of interest within the ...

As the Air Force looks to close a projected shortfall in recruiting, the service is offering new incentives for Airmen of all stripes to do some recruiting of their own. Under the Airman and Guardian Referral Program, unveiled May 18, members of the Air Force and ...

Eagle-eyed World War II buffs at the Wings over Wayne airshow in North Carolina this weekend will have their hands full trying to catch all the historical references packed on to the F-15E flagship of the 4th Fighter Wing. From the nose to the tail, the ...