Air Force officials at Maxwell AFB, Ala., are merging the two existing developmental education venues for lieutenants and captains into a single in-residence program for company grade officers that will debut in early 2012. Under the new program, Air University...
Members of Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, last week celebrated the wing’s transition to the C-17 transport during a ceremony. The base, which previously operated C-5As, is the latest Reserve unit to make the...
USAF’s Aeronautical Systems Center formally broached the topic of upgrading legacy F-16s with new active electronically scanned array radars, issuing a request for information. This preliminary solicitation is the first step toward replacing current APG-68 fire control radars on between...
The 4th Security Forces Squadron at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., is hosting a 2,181-mile ruck march from San Antonio to New York City to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The march begins Tuesday in...
The Air Force’s only forensic toxicology drug testing laboratory recently opened its doors at Lackland AFB, Tex., a part of Joint Base San Antonio. The new Headquarters Air Force Drug Testing Laboratory, a 22,000-square-foot building, is one of just six...
Air Mobility Command officials at Scott AFB, Ill., recently conducted the first KC-135 egress exercise to determine whether the Air Force can increase the amount of space-available passengers whom the tanker can accommodate. The Illinois Air National Guard’s 126th Air...
Air Force Research Lab scientists working at Little Rock AFB, Ark., are testing the potential of heat and humidity to destroy simulated biological agents contaminating an airframe. Using a decommissioned C-130 that is holding a harmless insecticide simulating a biological...
Residents near the memorial site of a B-52 bomber that crashed on Elephant Mountain in Greenville, Maine, on Jan. 24, 1963, are banding together with local members of the Air National Guard and Civil Air Patrol to improve the site....
The Israeli air force undertook evaluations of the MV-22 Osprey on a 10-day visit to MCAS New River, N.C. While there is no “procurement process on the table” as yet, the IAF is “looking at the aircraft, trying to understand...
