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GAO: DOD Needs to Track Data to Improve F-35 Logistics

March 16, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen
The F-35’s troubled Autonomic Logistics Information System has somewhat improved over the past five years, but still causes significant challenges for the Joint Strike Fighter enterprise every day, according to a new Government Accountability Office report published March 16. The F-35 program office hopes that ...

Dyess or Ellsworth to Get First B-21s

March 6, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
Either Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, or Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., will be the first base to host the B-21 Raider bomber. The service announced the start of environmental impact analyses in both locations to see which will be first to operate the Raider. ...

Goldfein Defends USAF Decision to Retire Legacy Aircraft

March 4, 2020 | By Amy Hudson
Air Force leaders are urging members of Congress to sit down with them in a classified setting so they can better understand the service’s thinking behind its fiscal 2021 budget request, which once again attempts to retire a host of legacy platforms to free up ...

USAF Still 2,100 Pilots Short of Goal

March 3, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen and Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
The Air Force needs 2,100 more pilots to reach its goal of 21,000 aviators, indicating that efforts to stem the pilot shortage have not yet been successful. “Increasing production of new aviators remains the most significant lever we have to arrest aircrew shortages,” service officials ...

Goldfein: USAF Won’t Use KC-46 Unless It Has To

March 3, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen
Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told Senate legislators March 3 the service will not use the new KC-46 tanker unless absolutely necessary to fight a powerful adversary. The wide-ranging Senate Armed Services Committee hearing—the first of multiple chances the Air Force has this week ...