The Pentagon is considering deploying additional forces to the Middle East—a move it considers a “prudent” step to deter Iranian aggression. The deployment would be part of a dynamic response to ongoing threats in the region, the Defense Department's head of policy told lawmakers on ...
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Cutting needed capabilities to pay for modernizing the force is a management tactic that has failed every time the Air Force has tried it, according to a new paper from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Authors Mark Gunzinger and Carl Rehberg said the Air ...
Daily Report: Read the day's top news on the US Air Force, airpower, and national security issues.
Daily Report: Read the day's top news on the US Air Force, airpower, and national security issues.
Kevin Williams, the Air Force’s director of studies, analyses, and assessments, died on Nov. 29 following an illness. Williams retired from the Air Force in 2005 after 25 years in uniform, but he immediately came back as a civilian, serving in a variety of SES ...
The Air Force’s Space Fence finished its initial operational test and evaluation phase in November, kicking off a trial period to see if the system works well enough to accept it for regular operations. Space Fence’s first increment is neither in space nor a physical ...
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F-22 development; Global Lightning project; USAF’s spending aims; and more ...
Few issues over the past 80 years have led to more discord between the Army and the Air Force.
Four years into development, the Air Force is starting to reveal more about the B-21 bomber.