Merri M. Shaffer

Orlando, Fla. The Air Force is expected to reduce its end strength by up to 25,000 personnel by Fiscal 2019, but the plan is to take the “bulk of the cuts up front,” then normalize the force structure over the...

Orlando, Fla. The Air Force will more clearly define performance-assessment and promotion-recommendation processes in the upcoming changes to the enlisted performance review, said CMSAF James Cody here on Friday. Briefing reporters at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium, Cody said the two...

Orlando, Fla.—Changes to the enlisted performance review will also reflect an emphasis on feedback and relationships between supervisors and subordinates, said CMSAF James Cody. Speaking to reporters here at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium on Friday, Cody said the process is...

Orlando, Fla.—Changes to the enlisted performance review will also reflect an emphasis on feedback and relationships between supervisors and subordinates, said CMSAF James Cody. Speaking to reporters here at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium on Friday, Cody said the process is...

Orlando, Fla.—The Air Force will more clearly define performance-assessment and promotion-recommendation processes in the upcoming changes to the enlisted performance review, said CMSAF James Cody here on Friday. Briefing reporters at AFA’s Air Warfare Symposium, Cody said the two “are...

Orlando, Fla. The Air Force is expected to reduce its end strength by up to 25,000 personnel by Fiscal 2019, but the plan is to take the “bulk of the cuts up front,” then normalize the force structure over the...

Orlando, Fla.—An initiative at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., nicknamed “the Tunnel” is helping to improve airmen’s resiliency and their ability to make “a difference for each other” by sharing personal stories of challenge, said CMSAF James Cody on Thursday. The...

While the bipartisan agreement on the Fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill unveiled Monday by leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee addresses sexual assaults in the US military, it does not include any of the of highly publicized...

Senators have introduced a host of competing amendments to the Fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill aimed at curbing sexual assaults in the military. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and a bipartisan team of senators released a letter Nov. 19, signed by...

The National Guard’s first test unit has begun cyber training at the Professional Education Center at Little Rock AFB, Ark.,in an effort to “buy in” to the nation’s growing cyber mission, said National Guard Bureau Chief Army Gen. Frank Grass....

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced an amendment on Nov. 19 to the Fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill, now being debated on the Senate floor, restricting the Air Force’s ability to divest the A-10 fleet until...

Even though the Defense Department’s deadline for extending benefits to same-sex spouses of service members has passed, five states have yet to comply, National Guard Bureau Chief Army Gen. Frank Grass told reporters on Nov. 19. They include, Texas, Mississippi,...

The Air Force is poised for Tuesday’s launch of the Space Test Program Satellite-3 into orbit from Wallops Island, Va. A Minotaur I rocket will carry STPSat-3 aloft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, states a Nov. 13 release from Kirtland...

Pacific Air Forces has directed two teams to support humanitarian operations in the Philippines, following the destructive path of Typhoon Haiyan on the island nation. Maj. Jillian Torango, PACAF spokeswoman, told the Daily Report a four-member advance team from the...

Finding a surveillance consensus post-Edward Snowden will require looking at transparency, oversight, and overall scope of data collection, said Chan Park, general counsel for the Senate judiciary committee. Speaking on a panel at a Center for Strategic and International Studies...