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Coronavirus
The Air Force wants to hear from small businesses with big ideas to combat the spread of the new coronavirus. AFVentures, a new group started to improve outreach to small companies that do not traditionally work with the Pentagon, published a solicitation March 30 that ...
The Air Force and its major commands are “resetting”—deciding the mission-essential tasks it must accomplish, while finding way to pare down or completely stop other tasks as the coronavirus outbreak and its corresponding impact spreads. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein ordered all ...
Daily Report: Read the day's top news on the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and national security issues.
Air Guardsman Killed at Camp Taji; Space Force Legislation Delays; Pilot Training Next; and More
Putin’s Five New Nukes
An exclusive interview with the PACAF Commander days before his nomination to be the next Air Force Chief of Staff.
This is the era of great power competition, and the means of competition are growing increasingly clear and diverse.
A C-17 and Airmen from multiple bases flew a 41-hour, 6,866 mile emergency airlift mission across 12 time zones to bring one-month-old twins to the Washington area for emergency neonatal care. The long-distance aeromedical evacuation mission came on short notice, after the twins were born ...
As the new coronavirus spreads, USAF aircrews are practicing “isolation in motion” to stay healthy while flying important airlift missions. While they can’t practice social distancing in a cockpit, aircrews are isolated before missions, and they go straight from their aircraft to their billets once ...
Daily Report: Read the day's top news on the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and national security issues.
The Air Force will send 60 Basic Military Training recruits to Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., “no earlier than” April 7 to try and prove that locations other than Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, can also host BMT during contingencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
