Autumn A. Arnett

Lockheed Martin recently unveiled its new Legion Pod—a multi-function sensor system designed to be highly collaborative across platforms. The pod is available to support the F-15C’s infrared search and track capabilities, but also was built to be highly adaptable to...

It’s easy to get lost in talk of technology and weapons systems and even budgets and sequestration, but CMSAF James Cody reminded the crowd at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 12 that airmen are still the biggest...

The Air Force is the smallest it’s been since its inception in 1947, said Secretary Deborah Lee James at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., last week. During Desert Storm/Desert Shield in 1990, the Air Force had 188 fighter...

The Air Force is working to “reset” its thinking in three areas of space operations, said Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh during his address at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., last week. The first is the discussion...

Though the Air Force has continually reinforced its commitment to eliminating its reliance on the Russian-made RD-180 engine for space launches, Air Force Space Command boss Gen. John Hyten said he is not confident the process towards finding a replacement...

The Air Force is going to conduct a review of its process to certify new space launch vehicle providers to carry military and intelligence community satellites into orbit, announced Secretary Deborah Lee James in her State of the Air Force...

Reservists will play a key part in the Air Force’s commitment to ramping up its cyber and ISR operations in Fiscal 2015 and beyond, Air Force Reserve chief Lt. Gen. JJ Jackson told an audience at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium...

The Air Force is shifting its thinking about space as a warfighting domain. Air Force Space Command boss Gen. John Hyten said during AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando last week, that while the barriers to access in space help...

CMSAF James Cody said he worries about the cost airmen are paying to achieve the mission set before them. “What I worry about every night is that email that is going to come in at 1:00 in the morning, that...

The Air Force is in the process of standing up a new Profession of Arms Center of Excellence at Air Education and Training Command, said Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando on Thursday....

US military involvement in Operation United Assistance—the international Ebola relief effort—is coming to an end. More than four months since the beginning of continuous airlift support to Liberia and Senegal, airmen—along with other US service members—are returning home. “No military...

The Air Force has requested $380.1 million in its Fiscal 2016 budget for the Global Positioning System III program, including $199.2 million for procurement and $180.9 million for continued research, development, testing, and evaluation. That does not, however, include funding...

The Air Force is eying Fiscal 2020 for the launch of the follow-on satellite that would replace the Space Based Space Surveillance Block 10 spacecraft operating? on orbit today, said Maj. Gen. Martin Whelan, the Air Staff’s space operations chief....

The Air Force is committed to eliminating its reliance on the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine, said Maj. Gen. Martin Whelan, director of space operations on the Air Staff. “We will fully embrace the need to develop a domestic alternative rocket...

The Air Force will open three national security space launches to competition in Fiscal 2016 and three in Fiscal 2017. By Fiscal 2018 all 18 planned national security space launches will be open to competition, Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, director...