Burlington ANGS, Vt., and Hill AFB, Utah, will serve as the first operational homes for the Air Force’s combat-ready F-35 strike fighters, announced USAF officials Tuesday. The decision comes more than three years after the service first announced its preferred...
Christine Fox will assume her new role as acting deputy secretary of defense on Thursday—one day after Deputy Secretary Ash Carter officially steps down—making her the highest-ranking woman to ever serve in the Defense Department, according to a Dec. 3...
A new partnership between the Air Force Sustainment Center and General Atomics is expected to improve maintenance capabilities for remotely piloted aircraft, while bringing additional work to AFSC logistics centers in Georgia, Oklahoma, and Utah. The new agreement, signed Nov....
Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath, England, tangled with allied aircraft in the Israeli Air Force’s first-ever Blue Flag air-combat exercise at Uvda Air Base in the Negev Desert late last month. It was the largest multinational aerial warfare exercise hosted...
Aircrew aboard a C-17 simulator successfully “refueled” for the first time from a KC-135 simulator, which was crewed several states away thanks to experimental software developed by Northrop Grumman, the company announced Dec. 2. “This feat affirms that we can...
Construction on a new 224,000-square foot addition to the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, is expected to begin in the spring of 2014, announced officials Dec. 2. The US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District,...
A team of airmen from the 374th Airlift Wing at Yokota AB, Japan, demonstrated airdrop methods and capabilities to members of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force during a recent exchange of knowledge. Specifically, the airmen shared low-cost, low-altitude methods, which...
The Civil Air Patrol has released an online familiarization course for Air Force personnel and CAP members intended to inform participants about CAP’s capabilities as a non-combatant, all-volunteer “force multiplier,” according to a CAP release. “During my 23-year Air Force...
