The Air Force earlier this week revised its mission statement, adding one key word but otherwise trimming the verbiage. The new statement reads: “The mission of the United States Air Force is to fly, fight, and win … in air,...

Members of the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in Southwest Asia have reduced by half the time required to swap an engine on E-3 AWACS surveillance aircraft. While it normally takes about 18 hours to remove and replace an E-3...

Northrop Grumman has completed acoustic testing of the two space tracking and surveillance system demonstration satellites that it is building for the Missile Defense Agency, the company announced yesterday. The testing, which took place at the company’s acoustic test facility...

Air Force Research Lab scientists and engineers at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, have resolved a technical issue with nozzles for the third stage of the Minuteman III ICBM, thereby sparing the service a costly redesign. Working with officials from industry and...

Zephyr, a solar-powered high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle developed to date under British Ministry of Defence sponsorship, flew for almost three-and-a-half days at the end of July over the Arizona desert, setting an unofficial new endurance mark for unmanned flight....

The Air Force officially opened the new Dakota Air Traffic Control Facility Aug. 20 on the grounds of Ellsworth AFB, S.D. after two years of planning and nearly $10 million in investment. The facility is the service’s first non-contiguous, co-located...

Airmen at Eielson AFB, Alaska, gathered on Aug. 21 to dedicate a building to the memory of MSgt. Brad A. Clemmons, an explosive ordnance disposal specialist who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq exactly two years ago...

The US Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field, Fla., has been granted candidacy status with the Community College of the Air Force, meaning that enlisted students attending the former will automatically receive credits towards their CCAF degree for...

Officials at Keesler AFB, Ms., yesterday received the first of more than 700 certified environmentally friendly homes that will be built on the base. The Air Force said in a release the two-unit home, which is built to leadership in...

The Air Force on Aug. 25 inducted the first manned aircraft ever to fly using pulsed-detonation propulsion into the National Museum of the United States Air Force on the grounds of Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Along with it, the hearing-protection technology...