Rescuers found the two pilots whose F-15s went missing over the Gulf of Mexico Feb. 20 around 2 p.m. CST, but one died at the hospital, according to an Air Force statement. Coast Guard crews found the pilots around 5...

The struggle to fund the Air Force of the future while maintaining a heavy combat tempo represents “an opportunity to redefine American air power,” Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley said at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando. Tight times...

Gen. Michael Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff, said Thursday that he has directed a number of bureaucratic and organizational changes to raise the profile of unmanned aerial vehicles within the service. First, Moseley said he instructed the USAF Weapons...

Lockheed Martin expects to complete the Avionics Modernization Program upgrades to the C-5B fleet around November and move directly into adding the same digital cockpits to the C-5A fleet, a senior company official said Thursday. At an anticipated rate of...

The E-8 Joint STARS fleet is one of the busiest platforms in Southwest Asia, having racked up more than 37,000 flight hours in combat so far. Northrop Grumman officials said Thursday in Orlando that the in-demand ground surveillance aircraft, based...

The Joint STARS program is adapting and learning from many of the technologies that were invested in the now-defunct E-10, according to Northrop Grumman ISR VP Dave Nagy. A key element from the E-10 is the large aperture radar that...

Raytheon has completed delivery of the 900 initial AIM-120C-7 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles that it will build for the Air Force and Navy, according to James Knox, Raytheon’s AMRAAM program manager. The C-7 variant has also just completed operational tests,...

Northrop Grumman is proceeding with plans to integrate the multi-platform radar technology insertion program (MP-RTIP) radar onto Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles that are destined for basing next decade at Grand Forks, AFB, N.D., a senior company official said yesterday....

If approved as submitted to the Congress earlier this month, the Air Force’s Fiscal 2009 budget plan would reflect growth in real terms of 4.6 percent over this fiscal year, Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein, tells the Daily Report. That...

Rep. Louise Slaughter and Sen. Hillary Clinton have received word that the Air Force plans to move 12 C-130H2 aircraft to Niagara Falls ARS, N.Y., by July, “two years ahead of schedule,” the New York Democrats state in a joint...

According to a command release, Air Force Special Operations Command is the Air Force lead for employment of small unmanned aerial vehicles. Special operators at Hurlburt Field, Fla., have been working with the 820th Security Forces Group at Moody AFB,...

President Bush has ended speculation about the development of bases for the new Africa Command, saying Tuesday during his swing through Africa that AFRICOM would plant no bases within Africa. During a press session in Ghana, Bush called the standup...

Boeing and Northrop Grumman continue unabated to vie to win the public relations campaign for their respective KC-767 Advanced Tanker and KC-30 Tanker aircraft as the Air Force nears the decision on which of them will be its next-generation KC-X...

The Air Force increased the amount of energy that it purchased late last year from environmentally friendly renewable sources, making it now the nation’s third largest consumer of them, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday in its quarterly list...

The Air Force has given Boeing a $49 million contract to aid Air Force Research Lab laser research and development efforts at Kirtland AFB, N.M., according to a company release. The work falls under AFRL’s Laser Application Support and In-house...

A team of civil engineers from several bases, deployed as the 1st Expeditionary RED HORSE, has been installing an emergency barrier arresting kit 12 series for the airfield at Bagram AB, Afghanistan. The BAK 12 will enable aircraft equipped with...

USAF officials at RAF Mildenhall, Britain, would like to use land acquired by the British Ministry of Defence last year to give Mildenhall aircraft a little more breathing room. Lt. Col. Tom Svoboda, commander of the 100th Civil Engineer Squadron...

The Air Force has put in play a new program to let airmen request an advance assignment or an in-place 24-month assignment deferment if they have served at least 300 consecutive days in a location authorized for hazardous duty pay....

Feb. 18, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 19 8 27 1,246 CAS/Armed Recon 40 42 82 3,804 Airlift 137 137 5,589 Air refueling 35 35 1,802 Total 281 12,441 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...