The White House has nominated Radha Iyengar Plumb—currently deputy defense secretary Kathleen Hicks' chief of staff—to be the deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment. Plumb previously worked at Google and Facebook, and has previous government work at the departments of Defense, Energy and ...
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Atop a ridge 1,500 feet above the waters of Yokohama Bay on Oahu island are six giant white globes concealing antennas for the collection of space data. The intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data collected from satellites as they orbit over the Pacific is vital to ...
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam—Amid 4,400 acres of jungle terrain on the northern plateau of Guam, new construction is underway to add storage for standoff munitions and to better prepare the Air Force to meet the rising threat posed by China. The new standoff weapons ...
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii—Some Airmen consider the Marine Corps' landing strip on the southeast side of Oahu island in Hawaii to be the most difficult to land on in the world. Surrounded on both sides by water and protected by a mountain range, the ...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. made a trip across the northern border, meeting Royal Canadian Air Force officials in Ottawa to discuss some of the key issues between the two services. Brown met with his RCAF counterpart, Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger, ...
The recent barrage of ballistic missile tests by North Korea elicited a strong “trilateral” response from the United States and Pacific allies Japan and South Korea, Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach told Air Force Magazine. The show of force was necessary to ...
America’s Pacific allies Japan and Australia want deeper cooperation with the U.S. in areas such as long-range weapons and military space activities with the goal of deterring a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan and to prepare in the event of one. "We need more conversation ...
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s fourth visit to the Indo-Pacific region comes at a critical time for Pacific Air Forces as the major command seeks to maintain and deepen partnerships and China competes to win basing access that could undermine U.S. security. Austin departed ...
A Taiwanese F-16 crash landed at Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport on June 6 on its way back after conducting training at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., according to local reports. The fighter jet reportedly made a hard landing at 2:45 p.m. local time ...