The Pentagon confirmed today that an improvised explosive device killed MSgt. Brad A. Clemmons, 37, of Chillicothe, Ohio, on Aug. 21 when the vehicle in which Clemmons was riding struck the IED. Clemmons, who was an explosive ordnance disposal craftsman...
The Air Force has delayed the launch of the first of Boeing’s new Global Positioning Satellite, the GPS IIF, and is taking a hard look at the company’s award fees, reports Reuters news service. USAF told Reuters that an independent...
A purported plan by the Navy and Marine Corps to delay acquisition of their versions of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as a means to free money in the 2008 budget for other needs sounds like business as usual...
This week’s tour of Malmstrom AFB, Mont., by DOD officials has produced no definitive answer as to whether the base will pick up a new mission being sought by Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.). The Great Falls Tribune reports that seven...
The Air Force has decided to shift responsibility for the Air and Space Expeditionary Force Center from Air Combat Command to the Air Force Personnel Center. The paper change—no movement from Langley AFB, Va., to Randolph AFB, Tex., indicated at...
The fielding of the Small Diameter Bomb was no mean feat, requiring the constant coordination of military members and civilians at seven locations working on four separate capabilities—the SDB itself, an advanced display core processor, a joint mission planning system,...
It’s fairly rare to see nose art on USAF aircraft today and rarer still when it appears on an aerial refueling aircraft, but Air Force Reserve Command’s 507th Air Refueling Wing at Tinker AFB, Okla., got Darby Perrin, a well-known...
US Joint Forces Command has just concluded the first phase of Urban Resolve 2015—a three-phase experiment designed to simulate an urban battlespace in the year 2015. Air Force Col. Terry Kono with JFCOM says that the two-week first phase provided...
Senior intelligence officials unveiled new measures to fix the nation’s encumbered intelligence system during a recent conference in Denver. The 16-agency Intelligence Community is “awash in data” but unable to use it efficiently, primarily because there’s access confusion, said Deputy...
An Air Force F-16 flying over Eglin AFB, Fla., demonstrated the ability to use the Lynx Synthetic Aperture Radar, developed by Sandia Lab initially for unmanned aerial vehicles built by General Atomics, culminating a two-year research effort that has coupled...
Airmen with Air Force Reserve Command’s 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, S.C., created a miniature C-17 that can be transported around the country in a special trailer to aid recruiting—and just show off the airlifter to the public. Recently,...
The National Museum of the US Air Force has put the C-141 known as the “Hanoi Taxi” on public display in the museum’s outdoor airpark. The Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing, the last to fly the famed aircraft,...
In two recent polls, Americans place the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism in the top two spots—just reverse the order. In a CBS News poll taken Aug. 11-13, the war in Iraq tops the list of the...
Aug. 22, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 13 10 23 CAS/Armed Recon 46 29 75 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 37 37 Total 59 39 187 285 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance