Another Data Breach?:

Personal information on some 867,000 individuals in 580,000 service member households may have been compromised by SAIC personnel working in Shalimar, Fla., on a Tricare contract. The McLean, Va.-based SAIC works under contract to provide scientific, engineering, and technical services...

Again Robbing Peter:

The Pentagon rightly has decided it needs to advance the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle program to push 3,500 MRAP vehicles into Iraq by the end of the year. To do that, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked Congress to...

Hap’s Uniform Back in Vogue:

Airmen asked for a little bit of service history in the Air Force’s latest uniform, and the leadership has responded with a rendition of the uniform worn by the man recognized as the father of the Air Force—Gen. H.H. “Hap”...

Pitching the New Warhead—Softly:

Speaking with defense reporters in Washington Thursday morning, Thomas P. D’Agostino—the National Nuclear Security Administration’s deputy administrator for defense programs—made the case for the Administration’s Reliable Replacement Warhead program. RRW would produce the first new nuclear weapons in the US...

How to Test a (New) Nuclear Bomb:

Skeptics from DOD to the scientific community have been asking the same question: How do you create new nuclear weapons that will work if you can’t blow them up? During a Thursday breakfast with defense reporters, Thomas P. D’Agostino, deputy...

CSAR Task Force Training Goes National:

The Air Force’s first dedicated combat search and rescue exercise providing realistic task force training concludes today at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. Exercise Angel Thunder was first held in 2006, but only as a base level exercise at Davis-Monthan. Air Force...

Now that’s a Weapon:

Northrop Grumman has begun figuring out how to integrate the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000-pound class weapon, on the B-2 bomber, under a $2.5 million contract a company release says Northrop received June 1 from Aeronautical Systems Center at...

Integration Center Key to Integral Fire:

The Global Cyberspace Integration Center at Langley AFB, Va., will link simulations at Langley and 14 other US sites participating in testing when exercise Integral Fire begins on Monday. The GCIC coordinates actions, providing an operationally realistic background for the...

California Wants Cyber, Too:

Officials and residents around Beale AFB, Calif., believe that the base would be a good site for the Air Force’s new Cyber Command, reports the Appeal Democrat. They are late to join the race, since Louisiana and Nebraska elected officials...

In With the New, in a Hurry:

Norway just spent $516 million on four new C-130J Hercules aircraft to replace their 1969-vintage C-130H models. Two will arrive next year, one is slated to come in 2009, and the fourth is due in 2010. Air Force Materiel Command...

A Flight Nurse First:

Maj. Carolyn “C.J.” Newhouse, deputy chief nurse of Air Force Reserve Command’s 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at McChord AFB, Wash., is the first Air Force Reservist to be chosen as a Flight Nurse consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General....

On Some Levels, China Shares:

Six medical officials from the People’s Liberation Army of China recently visited Hickam AFB, Hawaii, to discuss their infection disease surveillance capabilities with Pacific Air Forces medical personnel. PACAF got an in depth explanation about how the PLA approaches crisis...

Air Sorties in the Global War on Terrorism

July 17, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 17 12 29 CAS/Armed Recon 43 38 81 Airlift 123 123 Air refueling 52 52 Total 60 50 175 285 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...