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The Air Force chief scientist’s office will release “Cyber Vision 2025” later this month, said Mark Maybury, chief scientist, on July 17. The roughly 80-page document—a follow-on to the recently released Energy Horizons vision paper—details the way ahead for cyberspace...

Gen. Mark Welsh on July 19 will get his day before the Senate Armed Services Committee to discuss his nomination to be the Air Force’s next Chief of Staff. President Obama in May tapped Welsh, US Air Forces in Europe’s...

Maj. Philip Bryant and Maj. Joshua Hallada, two HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopter pilots, received Silver Star medals for their heroic actions in Afghanistan last year. Air Education and Training Command boss Gen. Edward Rice presented the medals on July...

Air Force Space Command on July 16 issued its list of space and cyberspace priorities. The command's 15 prioritized space capabilities are: nuclear, survivable communications; launch detection/missile tracking; position, navigation, and timing; space situational awareness and battlespace awareness; defensive space control; assured space access/spacelift; space command and control; satellite operations; protected, tactical communications; offensive space control; unprotected communications; space-to-surface intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; terrestrial environmental monitoring; nuclear detonation detection; and responsive spacelift. The command's nine prioritized cyberspace capabilities are: proactive defense; defensive counter-cyberspace (recon/counter-recon); cyberspace ISR and situational awareness; persistent network operations; data confidentiality and integrity systems; cyberspace operations center; offensive counter-cyberspace for global reach and access; net extension and resiliency; and influence operations. The AFSPC commander is the Air Force's core function lead integrator for space and cyberspace superiority core functions. In this role, he is responsible for defining service-wide investments supporting these functions.

The general court martial for SSgt. Luis Walker, a basic military training instructor facing multiple counts of sexual misconduct, began on July 16. Walker, who is assigned to the 737th Training Group at JBSA-Lackland, Tex., faces a total of 28...

Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter begins a 10-day trip through the Asia-Pacific region on July 17, his first official visit there as the Pentagon’s No. 2 top civilian official. He is scheduled to meet with US Pacific Command leadership in...

Adm. Samuel Locklear, head of US Pacific Command, reaffirmed the United States’ long-standing commitment to the Philippines in meetings with Philippine President Benigno Aquino and other top Filipino government officials on July 16, reported The Philippine Star. Locklear arrived in...

Tactical air control party members from the New York Air National Guard’s 274th Air Support Operations Squadron in Syracuse, operating from the deck of a Coast Guard vessel, recently directed an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft on maritime sorties during...

Air Education and Training Command officials earlier this month merged the training squadrons at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., for missileers and ICBM maintainers. Under the merger, AETC rolled the 392nd Training Squadron, which trained all ICBM missileers, into the 532nd TRS...

The seven partner nations sponsoring the development of Airbus Military’s A400M airlifter officially christened the aircraft the “Atlas,” announced the company. “Atlas is going to be a major capability for defense, and the Royal Air Force is looking forward to...