2024 USAF & USSF Almanac: Awards and Decorations

How USAF and USSF’s Force Generation Models Overlap: ‘You Can’t Part Time Warfare’

March 6, 2025

How Airmen and Guardians prepare for and perform operations may be very different, but the Air Force and Space Force’s models for generating those forces aren’t all that dissimilar in their focus on readiness and teamwork, leaders said March 5 at the AFA Warfare Symposium.

CCA Logistics: How USAF and Industry Plan to Rise to the Challenge

March 5, 2025

This week’s revelation that the Air Force had designated its first uncrewed fighters set the stage for the makers of the two aircraft to talk about the logistics of deploying them to dispersed locations.

AMC Finishing Up Analysis for Next-Generation Tanker

March 5, 2025

Air Mobility Command is nearly done submitting its analysis of alternatives for the Next-Generation Air-Refueling System (NGAS), Gen. John D. Lamontagne said March 5 at the AFA Warfare Symposium.

Space Force to Stand Up Guardian Recruiting Squadron with Mandate for New Mindset

March 5, 2025

The Space Force is establishing its first Guardian recruiters as the service seeks to take greater ownership of its force from day one, with aim of setting up a full squadron of around 30 Guardian recruiters later this year.

WATCH: Examining the State of Air Force Readiness

March 5, 2025

Retired Air Force Col. John “JV” Venable, a former F-16 pilot and a senior fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, visited with Air & Space Forces Magazine at the AFA Warfare Symposium to talk about the state of readiness across the Air Force, from spare parts to flying…

How Flying Test Bed Work Has Helped B-21 Make Good Progress

March 5, 2025

The first B-21 bomber is making good progress through its flight testing campaign and has required minimal software tweaks, building on extensive shakeouts of its systems carried out on a flying test bed, the president of Northrop Grumman’s aeronautics division said at the AFA Warfare Symposium on March 5.

Air Superiority Is Still the Key to Winning. Achieving It Is Getting Harder

March 4, 2025

The air superiority mission is rapidly evolving, and to succeed at it the Air Force needs to focus not just on new technologies but training, new concepts, non-kinetic methods and munitions, senior Air Force officials said.

New Promotion System for Space Force Sergeants Coming This Year

March 4, 2025

The Space Force will start rolling out a new promotion system for Specialist-4s (E-4s) rising to Sergeant (E-5s) later this fiscal year, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force John F. Bentivegna said at the AFA Warfare Symposium.

B-52 Flies with Israeli Fighters over Mediterranean Sea

March 4, 2025

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber flew with the Israeli Air Force and Royal Air Force over the eastern Mediterranean Sea on March 4, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Air & Space Forces Magazine. The sortie marks the third Bomber Task Force mission to the Middle East in…

2024 USAF & USSF Almanac: Awards and Decorations

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