Asked if the Air Force could possibly “accelerate” its bombing campaign as part of the coalition arrayed against ISIS, Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said yes, but “only if it’s coordinated with the rest of the campaign,” meaning ground...
The Defense Department will undertake a nuclear posture review “this spring,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told reporters Tuesday. The review will not only consider the numbers and types of nuclear weapons—bombers and bombs, silo-based missiles and...
The commander of the international coalition fighting ISIS said Wednesday he expects the group’s main cities of Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, to be retaken within the next six months. US Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, during a tour of...
US and coalition aircraft have conducted dozens of airstrikes to support a Turkish military advance on ISIS, shortly after Turkey and Russia conducted joint operations in the same location. Coalition aircraft have conducted 35 strikes since Jan. 1, dropping 101...
Leonardo announced Wednesday that it will pursue the T-X contract on its own, just a few weeks after Raytheon and Leonardo disbanded their teaming arrangement to compete for the Air Force’s $13.6 billion T-X advanced trainer program. The Italian company...
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) sharply questioned the four vice chiefs of the military services over the wisdom of beginning another round of base realignment and closure in the midst of tight military budgets Wednesday. “In the first three years, every...
Senators on the Senate Armed Forces Readiness Subcommittee agreed that the Department of Defense is suffering a dangerous readiness shortfall because of a flawed federal budget process. “The budget process is broken,” Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) said at a Wednesday...
Reps. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) and Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) introduced a bill Tuesday that would give access to mental health screening for most military veterans. The bill is aimed, in part, at lowering the suicide rate among veterans, who commit suicide...
Former Air Force acquisition official Richard Lombardi did not willfully fail to report a conflict of interest involving his spouse’s Northrop Grumman retirement account and did not participate in any improper activities, the Defense Department Inspector General said in a...