After multiple holds and months of delay, the Senate confirmed Deborah Lee James early Friday to be the 23rd Secretary of the Air Force. She is the second woman to hold the position. The 79-6 vote, which came nearly two...
The two-year budget compromise approved by the House of Representatives last week is an encouraging development, the service’s top leaders told reporters at the Pentagon on Dec. 13. But even if the deal is unchanged by the Senate, which is...
Red Flag, the Air Force’s top air combat exercise, is back on the books for 2014 after sequestration forced officials to cancel such exercises at Nellis AFB, Nev., and Eielson AFB, Alaska, earlier this year. “That cannot continue,” Air Force...
Fort Worth, Tex. Lockheed Martin celebrated the completion of the 100th F-35 strike fighter during a Dec. 13 ceremony at its Fort Worth, Tex., facility. The aircraft, the first training-coded F-35A, will be delivered to the Air Force in the...
Despite a push from industry to keep the T-X program alive, Air Education and Training Command boss Gen. Robin Rand said there is no funding for a new trainer in Fiscal 2014 or Fiscal 2015. Rand told the Daily Report...
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said the committee would review a proposed cut to military pensions after the holiday following backlash from numerous veterans organizations, reported Stars and Stripes. The one percent cut in annual cost-of-living increases...
The 502nd Air Base Wing, which includes some 8,000 people at JBSA-Lackland, JBSA-Randolph, and JBSA-Ft. Sam Houston, all in Texas, recently reorganized to serve the entire complex more effectively. “It is so important that we fine tune our structure and...
The National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, added the oldest CV-22 Osprey to its collection last week. The tiltrotor, serial No. 99-0021, was originally built as a Navy preproduction aircraft, but the Air Force modified...
Air Force Space Command officials announced the makeover of the current space badge, now renamed the space operations badge. “In order to clarify space mission roles and responsibilities, I am restricting wear of the space operations badge to primarily space...
