Just when we thought the news couldn’t get much worse on the theft of VA data, Secretary James Nicholson now says that he was wrong about the theft encompassing up to 50,000 military members as well as 26.5 million veterans....

The Air Force says its needs to divest itself of an unspecified number of additional officers this year, as part of its Force Shaping Phase II initiative. This endeavor is not part of the impending reduction of 40,000 slots over...

Pentagon acquisition guru Kenneth Krieg has told Congress that DOD must continue the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle program despite the fact it has exceeded its cost by more than 25 percent, reports Reuters news service. Krieg must officially declare...

The Air Force has given missileers at one of its ICBM alert facilities the ability to link to the outside world for mundane work not just their primary mission. The airmen in underground launch control center Juliet-01, part of the...

Some Arizonians are mighty unhappy with Republican Sen. John McCain, who they believe dropped the ball when it comes to support for a land swap deal around Luke AFB, Ariz., according to The Arizona Republic. The Arizona governor’s Military Facilities...

James Jeffrey, a career foreign service officer who is now the senior adviser to the Secretary of State on Iraq matters, told defense reporters in Washington Tuesday that State is tracking violence in Iraq in a new manner—distinguishing between “effective”...

Senior State Department official, James Jeffrey, told defense reporters Tuesday that the US is “concerned whenever a foreign leader criticizes our forces,” as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has done over the alleged killing of civilians by Marines in...

The new C-17 aircrews operating out of Hickam AFB, Hawaii, used the request for assistance in moving Australian defense forces as an opportunity to help an ally and get some additional C-17 training. (And, the Aussies picked up pointers, too.)...

According to Reuters news service, the Pentagon plans to cancel a planned Boeing-built sensor for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System in a restructuring effort to save the greatly over-budget program. The GAO told lawmakers last week in a...

The Joint Guam Military Master Plan outlining some $15 billion in infrastructure improvements for the next 15 years is being “fine-tuned” for delivery to US Pacific Command in July, was the word Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace got when he...

Anthony Cordesman says he can only give the Pentagon a grade of “F” for its most recent quarterly report on the situation in Iraq. The veteran defense analyst of the Center for Strategic and International Studies decries the report as...

Air Force Space Command now has the Air Force’s only Major Command Communications Coordination Center—a single center coordinating all the command’s network operations and systems. The Air Force has directed each major command to consolidate its network operations, and the...

Indian Air Force to Red Flag?: Defense officials in the US and India continue to pursue joint ventures, and one new one might be the participation by the Indian Air Force in USAF’s premier Red Flag exercise. The Chairman of...

Pursuing Agent Orange: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Pacific region tour included a stopover in Vietnam, where among other topics, he talked about the possibility of sharing data compiled by the US military about the health effects of Agent Orange. This...

Katrina Changes AETC Privatization Plans: The impact of Hurricane Katrina has led Air Education and Training Command officials to extend the family housing privatization timeline as they look for ways to offset a nearly 20 percent rise in regional construction...

June 5, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 12 5 17 CAS/Armed Recon 37 20 57 Airlift 160 160 Air refueling 37 37 Total 49 25 197 271 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance