Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein tells the Daily Report that the service is currently in discussions with Lockheed Martin on a potential new multiyear buy of C-130J transport aircraft and derivatives. In addition to procuring more combat-delivery Super Hercules airplanes,...

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said on Feb. 12 it is more likely that DOD would seek to replace any structurally unsound F-15 A-D models that never return to flight with F-35s rather than F-22s. “I do not believe the...

Gordon England, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official, said Feb. 12 that 2010 will be an important year for addressing the force structure needs that the Air Force says it has. “We will look at that more as we do the...

As we reported yesterday, the Air Force has now announced that it does not expect to name the permanent location of its new Cyber Command until “closer to the end of the year.” The decision was supposed to come this...

It took 55 years, but the Air Force has finally recognized retired Lt. Gen. Charles Cleveland as an ace for downing five MiG-15s during the Korean War. A phone call in January from the Air Force Board for Military Corrections...

After some schedule slips, Boeing announced yesterday that it has received FAA certification for Japan’s first KC-767 tanker. This, the company said, clears the way for the aircraft’s delivery to its Japanese customer in the next month or so—along with...

Air Forces Northern reports that it launched 150 fighter sorties, the bulk flown, as usual, by Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command aircraft, in the month of January. That brings the total number of fighter sorties flown since...

Airmen at Kadena AB, Japan prepared ahead of time the 225,000 pounds of food, medicine, and cold weather items transported by two C-17s, one from Alaska and one from Hawaii, to Shanghai last week. The Kadena employed a new Smart...

The Bush Administration has requested $93.7 billion in Fiscal 2009 for Veterans Affairs, bettering the 2008 spending level by $3.4 billion, according to a VA release. However, as Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, says the...

Feb. 12, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 24 10 34 1,082 CAS/Armed Recon 60 43 103 3,401 Airlift 127 127 4,966 Air refueling 37 37 1,602 Total 301 11,051 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...