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Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii is trialing novel energy technology to provide electrical power and hydrogen fuel in the kind of isolated and austere outposts the Air Force will need in the Pacific theater for its new Agile Combat Employment way of warfare. 

B-1Bs from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, flew over South Korea with U.S. and Korean fighters on April 15, adding to the already robust USAF bomber presence in the Indo-Pacific. 

As the Space Force looks to expand its ability to track objects in orbit, a series of ground-based radars coming in the next few years could help fill gaps in coverage. 

F-35s passed targeting information to ground artillery in a demonstration of a new open-systems communications gateway, during the recent Ramstein Flag 2025 exercise, Lockheed Martin said. It’s the first time the secure system has been demonstrated outside the U.S.

 The Air Force’s top enlisted member told lawmakers last week that the service must demolish hundreds of unneeded buildings, a move that would pay a “10-to-1 return on investment,” particularly for improving quality of life for service members, rather than spending money on their upkeep.

The Air Force and Navy’s logistics capabilities—including airlift and aerial tanking—are insufficient for the needs of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, its commander told lawmakers last week, and the requirement needs to be addressed by more than just commercial stopgaps. He also endorsed the idea of small, uncrewed sustainment craft, as they…

Derek M. Tournear, the director of the trailblazing Space Development Agency who was put on administrative leave in January amid an investigation into a disputed contract, will return to his duties April 17, the Department of the Air Force announced. 

After months of debate and sometimes public tension, the Space Force and Intelligence Community are making progress on establishing ways to work together, officials said this week—to the point where one predicted there will soon be “a sharing of data like we've never seen before.” 

The commander of the U.S. military base in Greenland has been fired after sending an email to base personnel distancing herself from Vice President J.D. Vance’s comments about the Danish territory that President Donald Trump wants to annex.