The first two of four B-1B Lancer bombers and some 200 support personnel from the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron of Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, had arrived at RAF Fairford, England, as of Oct. 6 to begin a series of U.S. European Command and U.S. ...
National Security
As time runs out for Congress to act and avoid an unprecedented debt default, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III is joining the chorus of voices trying to pressure the legislature into action. In a statement released Oct. 6, Austin warned that if the U.S. ...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Oct. 4 and said the following day that after two decades in Afghanistan, NATO will redirect its resources to defense of its 30 member countries. That will ...
The Air Force is bringing a new dedicated broadband communications system for first responders to its bases and installations, making it easier for police, firefighters, and paramedics to talk to each other as well as to Air Force security and operations personnel. AT&T will install ...
American deterrence efforts came one step closer to a critical new level when the Air Force proved a stealth fighter is capable of delivering a tactical nuclear weapon inside hostile territory, Air Combat Command confirmed Oct. 4. The F-35A is the first fifth-generation fighter to ...
Congress passed a continuing resolution Sept. 30 to keep the Pentagon and the rest of the government funded through Dec. 3, avoiding a shutdown with just hours to spare. The stopgap measure, approved 65-35 in the Senate and 254-175 in the House, means the Defense ...
North Korea tested a missile it called the Hwasong-8 “strategic weapon” Sept. 28, suggesting later that it was a hypersonic missile—but the Pentagon said it’s unclear exactly what Pyongyang flew and that it doesn’t change U.S. military posture in the Western Pacific. Gen. Glen D. ...
The Pentagon is seeking industry comments about defense supply chain vulnerabilities in the areas of “select” kinetic weapons, power storage, microelectronics, and castings and forgings. The Biden administration wants the information to develop policies that can head off single-point failures in defense supply. Biden directed ...
Russia’s grey zone tactics and China’s rapid growth require a holistic deterrence response and less bureaucracy, Vice Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Gen. John E. Hyten and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Tod D. Wolters warned at the Air Force Association's conference ...