January 2010

A new aircraft program is drawing near, but pitfalls await.

The Air Force is struggling to prevent erosion of its global capabilities.

Airmen adapt to the McChrystal directive.

At Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, what workers see can be awfully grim.

The Air Force has abandoned big centerpiece programs and will go with modest enhancements.

Negative events have begun overtaking the once mighty and innovative US aerospace industry.

This secret 1960s study left its stamp on US nuclear forces for the next 40 years.

USAF reconsiders the mix of aircraft needed to provide CAS and armed overwatch in irregular conflicts.

World air forces are on pace to buy more than 3,000 fighters over the next decade.

F-35 saga rolls on; Chinese power rolls out; Combat air patrols roll up? ....

“The Secretary of the Air Force is hereby designated as the DOD executive agent for space and in that role shall … exercise DOD-wide responsibilities for planning and programming of space systems and acquisition.”—Department of Defense Directive 5101.2, June 3,...

Air Force Seeks Undersecretary The Senate in late December pondered the nomination of Erin C. Conaton to be undersecretary of the Air Force, a crucial service leadership position that had been vacant since August 2007. She had served as majority...

Leakers Beware “I have been appalled by the amount of leaking that has been going on in this process. … And frankly, if I found out with high confidence anybody who was leaking in the Department of Defense, who that...

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Gates and the B-2 “Hear, hear” for Robert Dudney’s editorial [“The Real B-2 Mistakes,” November 2009, p. 2] correcting Secretary Gates’ flawed logic on why each B-2 ended up costing $2 billion. The basic business principle Congress and some in...

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Veterans Day in Texas At the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, AFA was front and center during a Veterans Day ceremony that recognized World War II WASPs, Women Airforce Service Pilots. US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) asked AFA...