Congress green-lit a new Space Force in its joint fiscal 2020 defense policy bill, under a proposal that would elevate Air Force Space Command to become the Pentagon’s sixth military service under the Department of the Air Force.
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The Air Force will eliminate below-the-zone promotions in 2020 en route to introducing a new five-year window for promotions without up-or-out limitations beginning in 2021 or 2022.
Eglin AFB, Fla., will start receiving the MH-139, Air Force Global Strike Command’s new patrol helicopter, at its new test detachment at Duke Field in the coming weeks.
Almost 20 years after countries began enforcing the Open Skies Treaty, the idea of using satellites to replace the Air Force’s decades-old OC-135B surveillance airplanes is gaining new life in Washington. But is it feasible?
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman on Dec. 6 received contracts for work on an Air Force experiment to give military planes access to commercial wireless Internet in flight.
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The architects and initial leaders of the prospective Space Force need to ensure it is immediately ready to be an equal among established military branches, while the formation of the new service should be used as a way to shake up established acquisition processes, top ...
The 55th Security Forces Squadron at Offutt AFB, Neb., is taking up residence in a base dormitory as its new office until a more permanent facility is ready, following a historic flood earlier this year.
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An official representing Air Force landlord Balfour Beatty Communities told lawmakers Dec. 5 the company will refund performance bonuses if it finds its employees committed fraud.
The chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are still hashing out differences between their chambers’ versions of the fiscal 2020 defense policy bill, offering conflicting opinions on when that work may end as their days in session dwindle.