Just one year ago, Collaborative Combat Aircraft took center stage as then-Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin designated the two competing jets prototypes as the first unmanned fighters in Air Force history: General Atomics’ YFQ-42A and Anduril Industries’ YFQ-44A. Twelve months later, it’s the autonomy software that’s flying those aircraft garnering the attention. Autonomy software, more than hardware, may prove the most valuable and enduring element of the CCA ...
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As the Space Force spends more time thinking about what it will need to look like in 2040, some of the service's generals say they can lay the groundwork for Guardians launching and operating in orbit while still meeting the demand for space superiority now.
The Air Force will promote 11.07 percent of eligible master sergeants to senior master sergeant this year, a decline from last cycle that snaps a four-year streak of increases. Out of a pool of 13,315 eligible individuals, 1,474 new E-8s were selected.
The Air Force has released updated scoring charts for its new physical fitness test to mark the March 1 start of its three-month diagnostic test period. Airmen will begin taking the new test for the record on July 1.
Winners of the Space Force’s fourth annual, service-wide Polaris Awards had the chance to discuss the actions that led to their awards from the main stage here at AFA’s Warfare Symposium on Feb. 24, in a panel discussion moderated by Chief Master Sergeant of the ...
Retired Air Force officer and former pilot Maj. Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. was arrested Feb. 25 in Jeffersonville, Ind., charged in a federal complaint for “providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization.”
Against a backdrop of a video replay of the U.S. men's hockey team’s stunning overtime victory to win the gold medal at the Olympics, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force David R. Wolfe presented his leadership ideals at AFA's 2026 Warfare Symposium on Feb. ...
The Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard are working to equalize their members' status and benefits with those of Active-Duty members when both serve in the same missions.
The Air Force has restructured its tech schools to ensure new service members don’t forget that they are Airmen first despite their specialty—the primary lesson of the service’s recent transformation of basic military training.
