The Air Force’s plan to retire most of its E-8C JSTARS fleet has gotten a boost from a congressional panel. The House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee unveiled its markup of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. A provision included in the ...
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The seven subpanels of the House Armed Services Committee are set to begin marking up their respective portions of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act in the next few days, and one is considering letting the Air Force make cuts to its tanker and C-130 ...
The Government Accountability Office identified “significant shortfalls” in the transparency and credibility of the Air Force process that led to the selection of Redstone Arsenal, Ala., as the preferred location for the headquarters of U.S. Space Command in 2020, but it did not identify any ...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said lower-cost unmanned platforms are key to closing any capability gaps created by reducing the fleet in the near-term while the service invests in capabilities that will enable it to compete with peer adversary China in the long-term. "By having ...
In a Memorial Day address at Arlington Cemetery, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III drew parallels from veterans fallen from America’s longest war to Ukrainian soldiers fighting against Russia to preserve democracy today as Ukraine’s request for multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) remains unheeded. “In ...
In the final few hours before the Senate adjourned for its Memorial Day recess on May 26, lawmakers approved a raft of some 3,400 pending military nominations, including a number of high-profile Air Force and Space Force generals to assignments that will significantly reshape some ...
Over the past several years, the Pentagon has dedicated nearly $30 billion in funding to the European Deterrence Initiative, helping to bolster the U.S. military’s posture and flexibility in the region to respond to Russian aggression. In that time, the initiative has become “absolutely vital” ...
As the Air Force presses forward with its concept of agile combat employment, relying on small teams of multi-capable Airmen to operate in austere locations and move quickly, the service’s surgeon general is considering ways the Air Force’s medical personnel can also become “increasingly modular, ...
If Congress doesn’t act to establish a Space National Guard soon, leaders in Air National Guard units with space missions will need to start having some difficult conversations with their Airmen. That’s the warning from multiple commanders during a virtual event hosted by the National ...