The Department of Defense should consider awarding both Boeing and Northrop Grumman contracts to build new tanker aircraft for the Air Force, former Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne told the Daily Report yesterday. Wynne said in an interview having each...

It's not yet a wholesale exodus, but another Air Force top civilian official has walked and, according to the Associated Press, has blamed recent leadership changes for his exit. William Anderson, the assistant secretary for installations, environment, and logistics and the service's point man on its push to embrace alternative fuels for aircraft, tendered his resignation to Acting Air Force Secretary Michael Donley with an effective date of Aug. 15, according to a July 28 announcement from the Air Force. Anderson has served in his current post since 2005. In the terse statement, Donley praised Anderson, saying he "is enormously talented, very experienced, and has superb strategic vision." Former Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said after leaving office that Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others in DOD felt the Air Force was expending too much effort on its initiative to run aircraft on synthetic fuel.

Air Combat Command boss Gen. John Corley has appointed Brig. Gen. Mark Barrett, commander of the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley AFB, Va., to head the accident investigation board looking into the fatal B-52 crash July 21 off the coast...

The Air Force’s tanker crews live by the mantra that a tanker “will always be there” when pilots of whatever military aircraft need them, says Capt. Brad Talley, a KC-135 co-pilot deployed to Southwest Asia with the 340th Expeditionary Air...

An investigation was ongoing into the shooting death Sunday night of Brig. Gen. Thomas Tinsley, the commander of the 3rd Wing at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, at his home on base, according to a July 28 Air Force release. An Associated...

The Airborne Laser team has installed the high-energy laser aboard the modified Boeing 747-400F and is in the process of testing it with its chemical fuel, according to a July 28 release from Boeing. Earlier this month, Air Force Lt....

The Texas Air and Army National Guard and Texas State Guard supplied about 800 people to work with local, state, and federal emergency responders during relief operations in South Texas after Hurricane Dolly ravaged the Rio Grande Valley July 23,...

Air Force and Army firefighters joined forces at Joint Base Balad in Iraq last week to battle a two-alarm fire that had engulfed six on-base structures. A dozen firefighters showed up within minutes of the first call, but they quickly...

The first commander in chief of US Space Command, retired Air Force Gen. Robert T. Herres, 75, died July 24 at his home in San Antonio after two-year fight against brain cancer, according to a July 26 Associated Press report...

The Oregonian has published an encomium to retired Air Force Gen. Tony McPeak, a former USAF Chief of Staff, who has opted—against what some would say is conventional wisdom for a military man—to support Barack Obama vice Vietnam War veteran...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaJuly 26, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 14 37 6,436 CAS/Armed Recon 44 54 98 18,938 Airlift 128 128 25,969 Air refueling 53 53 9,099 Total 316 60,442...