Total aircraft inventory; aircraft inventory trends; ICBM and satellite inventory; andaircraft age.
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The Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2023 will be formally recognized at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference from Sept. 11-13 in National Harbor, Md. Air & Space Forces Magazine is highlighting one each weekday from now until the conference begins. Today, we ...
A non-exhaustive list of acronyms and abbreviations found in the 2023 Almanac.
Total aircraft inventory; aircraft inventory trends; ICBM and satellite inventory; and aircraft age.
Robins Air Force Base, Ga., kicked off a new era late last month when its first E-11A arrived. Though the E-11A has been in combat service since 2008, its arrival at Robins is a milestone in the base’s transition from the retiring E-8 JSTARS aircraft ...
The Biden administration is requesting $259.3 billion for the Department of the Air Force in its fiscal 2024 budget, an increase of more than $9 billion or about 4 percent over this year.
The Air Force deployed a brand new version of one of its prized communications aircraft to Saudi Arabia, the service said in a Jan. 2 news release. An E-11A equipped with a Battlefield Airborne Communication Node, or BACN, arrived at Prince Sultan Air Base in ...
The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to outfit two more E-11A Bombardier business jets with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) system. The service already operates three such aircraft, which are used to improve tactical communications for joint and coalition forces. The ...
The Air Force Association’s 2021 Air, Space & Cyber Conference; Kendall on China; Raymond on the Space Force; New B-52 Engines; and more ...
Total aircraft inventory; aircraft inventory trends; ICBM and satellite inventory; aircraft age; tail codes.
The Air Force recently awarded Bombardier a $465 million contract for up to six more E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node aircraft. The E-11A, a heavily modified Bombardier Global 6000 business jet, acts as a “Wi-Fi in the sky." It is used heavily in Afghanistan, connecting ...
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning ...
