It's official: President Joe Biden has picked an Airman to be his top military adviser. At 1:52 pm on May 25, Biden walked out of the West Wing and into the Rose Garden alongside Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. to formally announce he is nominating ...
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President Joe Biden will announce he is nominating Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on May 25, a senior administration official confirmed to Air & Space Forces Magazine. Biden will make ...
Within a brand-new, gleaming-white facility called the “high bay” at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, a battered and rusty-looking fuselage and left wing of a B-52H has become a laboratory for the government-industry team that will revamp the aged Stratofortress fleet for the next ...
While an effective tool, digital engineering won't deliver massive savings of time and money in new programs, yielding probably 20 percent improvement in those areas, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said.
Rolls-Royce is in the last few months of testing its F130-200 engines before a critical design review of the powerplants, which will equip the re-engined and upgraded B-52J, a company official said. “We’re about one-third through” engine runs with F130-200 Nos. 1 and 2, F130 ...
Air Force F-22 Raptors flew to Estonia earlier this month to demonstrate NATO’s integrated air defenses along the alliance’s eastern flank with Russia.
As President Joe Biden and Republicans in Congress negotiate just weeks before the U.S. is set to hit its debt ceiling, Pentagon and Air Force leaders offered stark warnings that America defaulting on its debt would “embolden” China, potentially devastate the Defense Department’s budget, and ...
The Air Force—along with the entire Pentagon—must make all the links of its “kill chain” more robust and resilient. But it all hinges on producing modern air platforms and weapons—specifically, fifth- and sixth-generation fighters and bombers—in sufficient numbers, experts from the Mitchell Institute argue.
The head of NORAD, Gen. Glen VanHerck told lawmakers that over-the-horizon radars will help his troops detect threats from farther away, but they need to be able to communicate quickly in order to neutralize those threats.