The Air Force and Navy are proceeding with a long-term strategy dubbed “three plus two” to streamline the care and sustainment of the nation’s nuclear warhead stockpile, Billy Mullins, associate director of strategic deterrence and nuclear integration on the Air...
The Defense Department is delaying personnel reductions at Lajes Field, Azores, by several months to October 2014 to allow for analysis of the economic impact on the local community, reported Stars and Stripes. “We will do everything we can to...
Boeing’s redesigned Massive Ordnance Penetrator is ready for “successful prosecution,” according to the most recent annual report to Congress from Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s top tester. The 30,000-pound bunker-busting bomb underwent two sled tests at Holloman AFB, N.M., last summer...
Marine Gen. John Kelly, US Southern Command boss, this week visited Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., for the first time since taking command in November, according to a base release. The Arizona installation is home to 12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern),...
Lockheed Martin received clearance from the Air Force to begin full-rate production of an upgraded version of the Sniper targeting pod, announced the company on Wednesday. Developed as a quick-reaction capability under the Air Force’s Advanced Targeting Pod-Sensor Enhancement program,...
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center is asking industry for ideas on future concepts for the ground-based leg of the nation’s nuclear triad. Center officials requested white papers by the end of February that describe a Ground Based Strategic Deterrent...
Air Force Space Command finished a new communications satellite control center at Schriever AFB, Colo., according to a base release. Dubbed the Integrated Operations Environment, the center enables face-to-face cooperation between the 3rd Space Operations Squadron and its sister 4th...
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is slated to open an exhibit in March chronicling how timekeeping has evolved over three centuries and how it influences navigation. “Time and Navigation: The untold story of getting from...
