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With Space Futures Command on Pause, How Is USSF Working on New Partnerships?

Feb. 11, 2025

The Space Force may have stopped work on its Futures Command, but the service is still crafting future plans, to include a strategy for how it will work with international partners, a top official said.

Air Force Orders Halt to Some Work on Sentinel ICBM

Feb. 11, 2025

The Air Force is suspending work on a significant part of its new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, ordering a pause on construction of launch facilities being developed by Northrop Grumman.

‘New’ F-35 Assembled from Two Wrecked Jets Makes Its First Flight

Feb. 11, 2025

The Air Force pieced together two damaged F-35s into one stealth fighter, dubbed 'Franken-bird.' The jet took its initial flight and is set to be combat-ready by March.

Brig. Gen. L. Boyd Anderson, Former Vice Chairman of AFA, Dies at 89

Feb. 11, 2025

Retired Brig. Gen. Lawrence Boyd Anderson, who served as vice chairman of the board of the Air Force Association—now the Air & Space Forces Association—and the last chairman of the board of the Aerospace Education Foundation, died Feb. 6. He was 89.

New Report: Instructor, Student Pilot Both at Fault in $10 Million Helicopter Crash

Feb. 10, 2025

A helicopter instructor pilot failed to take sufficient corrective action in time to fix the mistakes of a student pilot taking off from a slope, resulting in a rollover that caused nearly $11 million in damages to a TH-1H chopper last spring.

Air Force Doesn’t Have Enough Desks for Everyone to Return to In-Person Work

Feb. 10, 2025

The Air Force will exempt some civilian employees and service members from the Feb. 7 return-to-office deadline due to a shortage of office space.

More Test T-7 Aircraft Could Help Air Force Make Up for Data It Can’t Use

Feb. 10, 2025

Hundreds of test flight hours Boeing flew in prototype T-7A trainer aircraft cannot be used to assess the system’s operational effectiveness or suitability because the design has changed so much, the Pentagon’s top test official said recently. Instead, the Air Force’s plans to buy extra T-7s for testing will allow…

Defense Secretary Orders Air Force to Pause All Reorg Planning

Feb. 10, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the Department of the Air Force to pause all planning related to its “Re-Optimization for Great Power Competition” effort—a move that leaves a sweeping plan to transform the Air Force and Space Force in limbo.

Missile Defense Agency Moves Out Quickly on ‘Iron Dome’

Feb. 7, 2025

The Missile Defense Agency is moving quickly to gather ideas for President Donald Trump’s proposed “Iron Dome for America” and hopes to make progress on some within the next two years.

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