President Obama says he has assured French President Nicholas Sarkozy that the Air Force’s KC-X tanker recapitalization effort will be a “free and fair” process. And the French head of state said he accepts those assurances. Speaking Tuesday during a...
The Defense Department is willing to extend the deadline for proposals for the KC-X tanker contest by 60 days from May 10 to July 9 if EADS provides formal notification of its intent to bid, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said...
The Pentagon’s willingness to grant a 60-day extension to the KC-X proposal deadline may not be enough for EADS to commit to bidding. “We have firmly indicated that a 90-day extension would be the minimum time necessary to prepare a...
Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Tuesday there is “no doubt in the [Defense] Department about the validity” of the combat search and rescue mission, and the Air Force is going to buy new rescue helicopters to recapitalize its...
Raytheon announced Wednesday that it has delivered “an operationally significant quantity” of miniature air launched decoys to the Air Force, meeting those deliveries on the timetable laid out in 2003 and enabling the service to meet its required assets available...
A revisit of awarding executive agency for remotely piloted aircraft to the Air Force or any other service is “not in the cards” Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Tuesday. Speaking during an Air Force Association-sponsored Air Force Breakfast...
The Air Force’s experimental TacSat-3 imagery satellite has been supporting US Southern Command’s humanitarian relief efforts in Chile and Haiti after powerful earthquakes struck both nations on separate occasions this year. The advanced responsive tactically effective military imaging spectrometer (ARTEMIS),...
US Strategic Command’s Global Thunder exercise last June was the most extensive nuclear command, control, and communications event of its kind in more than a decade, says Gen. Kevin Chilton, STRATCOM boss. “It demonstrated the full range of nuclear deterrence...
The failure of an Air Force Special Operations Command aircrew to refuel their DHC-8/Q200 transport when they had the chance during a mission from Nouakchott, Mauritania, to Bamako Mali, on Nov. 19, 2009, caused the aircraft to run out of...
The Energy Department will be conducting a study at six Air Mobility Command bases through the fall to determine whether renewable energy systems, including wind farms and solar panels, could be cost effective at these locations. General assessments will be...
Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, March 27, 2010 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 22 42 64 5,126 CAS/Armed Recon 12 71 83 7,764 Airlift 180 180 14,219 Air refueling 35 35 3,573 Rescue 29 29 638 Total...
