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Private Tankers Could Help USAF Keep Up With Demand

March 26, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
Air Mobility Command is pursuing a contract for privately operated tankers to meet the unrelenting need for booms in the air as the service proposes cutting 29 KC-135s and KC-10s. The command is wrapping up a feasibility study on the plan this month with the ...

USAF Issues Seed Money for Four Light-Attack Aircraft

March 17, 2020 | By Rachel S. Cohen
The Air Force is moving ahead with contracts for both finalists involved in its exploration of light-attack aircraft, issuing awards to both Textron’s AT-6 and Sierra Nevada Corp.’s A-29 over the past few weeks. Formal funding is the latest step in the Air Force’s light-attack ...

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 ...