The changes principally affect how Enlisted Performance Reports (EPR) will be scored.
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.
After nearly 15 years in development and a $4 billion Air Force investment, two brand-new fighter engines are in test.
The Air Force has taken the first step toward a rapid acquisition of Boeing’s E-7A Wedgetail airborne warning and control aircraft to replace the aging E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, according to an Oct. 20 business opportunity announcement. The Wedgetail, which ...
The alarming speed of China’s military advance is fueling new urgency in the Air Force to accelerate modernization and deter Beijing from military aggression. American primacy is in jeopardy, service leaders warned at AFA’s 2021 Air, Space & Cyber Conference. China’s air force is at ...
The Air Force Force Generation model will completely overhaul the way the service trains, equips, and deploys its forces.
The Air Force’s top officer-and-spouse duo shared a personal reason they take family readiness to heart in a town hall talk on the final afternoon of AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and ...
Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. spoke at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept. 20, addressing a packed auditorium in National Harbor, Md. Here is a video of his remarks.
The range of current Air Force weapons compels pilots of stealth aircraft to get too close to their targets, risking that they’ll be seen and shot down, Air Combat Command boss Gen. Mark D. Kelly said Sep. 22. The service must have longer-range “fifth-generation weapons” ...
The Air Force’s pilot production numbers stayed relatively steady from fiscal 2019 to 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said, an encouraging sign that the service’s efforts to speed up that pipeline are working. That progress could be ...
The U.S. cannot wait for a crisis moment to address China's pacing threat.
Six of the the Department of the Air Force’s top leaders appeared together virtually Sept. 16, discussing the results of a recent racial and gender disparities survey released by the Air Force Inspector General. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall was joined in the town hall ...
The rapid pace of China's intercontinental ballistic missile construction program has been known to the U.S. for at least two years, but it's been a top secret, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John E. Hyten said Sep. 13. The revelation of ...