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The Air Force is reportedly considering using a Depression-era law to speed the procurement of the replacement helicopters for its Vietnam War-era UH-1 Hueys. The New York Times reports that USAF officials are exploring using the Economy Act of 1932...

The Air Force leadership has named Kevin Geiss the service’s new deputy assistant secretary of energy. This is a new position meant to reinforce USAF’s commitment to energy efficiency. In his new role, Geiss will oversee the Air Force’s Energy...

Inspection and verification of nuclear delivery platforms, particularly strategic bombers, would be “more intrusive in some ways than START,” under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, said Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state for arms control, Monday. “The...

The United States and Australia on Monday agreed to deepen cooperation in monitoring space by signing a space situational awareness partnership statement of principles during their bilateral ministerial meeting in Melbourne, Australia. “Australia and the United States shared a deep...

Gen. Raymond Johns, Air Mobility Command boss, last week flew the first production C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter from Stewart Air National Guard Base in upstate New York to its new home at Dover AFB, Del. At Stewart, members of the...

The Missile Defense Agency announced Monday that it is transferring operational control of a small experimental satellite known as STSS ATRR to Air Force Space Command. The latter will utilize the satellite for space surveillance, according to MDA’s release. MDA...

Airmen with the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein AB, Germany, participated in a one-day NATO training exercise in the Baltic region. C-130Js from the unit conducted a tactical off-load at Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania, according to a Ramstein release....

Lockheed Martin announced Monday that it has provided the bus real time simulator for the Global Positioning System Block III satellite program. This is the first contract deliverable for GPS III, stated the company’s release. Lockheed, which leads the industry...

Version 2.0, the newest iteration of the Distributed Common Ground System Integration Backbone, or DIB, facilitates better information sharing across the military services and intelligence community. “With this version of the DIB, the DCGS programs of record can query each...

Afghan airmen have received training for the first time on how they would use signaling equipment to alert help if their aircraft go down. This is part of the broader survival skills that NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan advisors are teaching...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Nov. 2, 2010 Sortie Type OND OEF OND/OEF Total YTD ISR 22 79 101 23,245 CAS/Armed Recon 12 97 109 29,927 Airlift 183 183 53,199 Air refueling 46 46 14,847 Rescue 28 28 6,885 Total...