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With Congress considering another continuing resolution to cover the rest of fiscal 2025, the Space Force’s No. 2 officer asked lawmakers to give the service “flexibility” to deal with budget uncertainty.

The Air Force would suffer the loss of billions of dollars of buying power under a yearlong Continuing Resolution, only somewhat mitigated by proposals that would allow it to pursue new starts, Lt. Gen. Adrian Spain, deputy chief of staff for operations, told the readiness subcommittee of the Senate Armed…

The U.S. military is sending approximately 40 Air Force intelligence analysts to beef up its surveillance of the southern border, U.S. Northern Command announced March 11. NORTHCOM has established the Joint Intelligence Task Force-Southern Border to oversee the joint service and interagency effort.

Leaders in charge of Space Force components under combatant commands said their organizations are too small to engage with other services in their theaters like they need to do.

Retired Col. Richard Anderson, a former missileer with 30 years of service, has been nominated for the position of assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs.

Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations for the U.S. Space Force, delivered the opening keynote of the 2025 AFA Warfare Symposium. Emphasizing the need for the U.S. to maintain space superiority, Saltzman made the case that the Space Force needs to develop capabilities to control the domain. Watch…

After an 89-year hiatus, the Air Force brought back a historic air race meant to prepare F-22 pilots and ground crews for future conflict while competing for bragging rights.

The Air Force's LC-130 Hercules touched down on freshwater ice for the first time in decades, signaling the service’s leap in flexibility for "defensive or offensive operations" in the Arctic. The New York Air National Guard landed the C-130 variant "Skibird" aircraft on frozen Parsons Lake in Inuvik, Canada on…

Gen. David W. Allvin, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, shared a revealing vision on the State of the Air Force at AFA’s Warfare Symposium March 3. In a forceful presentation, he made the case for why airpower is crucial to the Trump administration’s defense priorities, and why…