Boeing and Northrop Grumman yesterday submitted the final proposals for their respective KC-767 and KC-30 tanker aircraft to the Air Force in the multi-billion-dollar KC-X tanker-recapitalization contest. “We believe the KC-767 Advanced Tanker will be evaluated as the most capable,...

Pratt & Whitney has announced that its fleet of F117 engines, the powerplants for C-17 airlifters used by the Air Force, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, and Royal Australian Air Force, has logged more than five million operational...

The 1st Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo. last week shut down operations of its legacy satellite control system called the Command and Control Segment. The end of the CCS on Dec. 28 came less than a week after...

Air Force scientists are investigating “bio-inspired munitions” that would resemble and behave like swarms of insects and birds with flapping wings and perhaps have the ability to sense wind direction and smell. Such weapons, reports Wired, would be “small, autonomous”...

Despite the extended stand-down of its key air defense fighter, the F-15 Eagle, Air Forces Northern conducted 150 fighter sorties over North America in December. Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command fighters flew the majority of sorties, and...

The Pentagon’s Inspector General wants the Air Force to improve its management and financial controls over supplemental funding provided by Congress for procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation activities for the Global War on Terror. The IG makes this...

URS Corp. will provide engineering and program management services to the Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence at Creech AFB, Nev. under a three-year contract announced Jan 2. Under the terms of the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity deal, the company’s...

The Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif., intends to award a sole-source contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company to support the operations and sustainment of the Global Positioning System Block IIR satellite fleet from January 2009...

The Air Force has selected four airmen to receive the 2007 Lance P. Sijan Air Force Leadership Award. They are: Lt. Col. Laura Soule, Lackland AFB, Tex.; Capt. Stewart Parker, Pope AFB, N.C.; MSgt. William Facio, Nellis AFB, Nev.; and TSgt. Joshua King, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

The final resting site of a memorial to the 40 US soldiers killed in June 1943 in a B-17C Flying Fortress crash in Bakers Creek, Australia, remains in limbo. The Washington Post reports that the Army recently rejected proposals to...

Jan. 1, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 21 8 29 CAS/Armed Recon 57 41 98 Airlift 140 140 Air refueling 45 45 Total 78 49 185 312 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...