Flight testing of top-priority programs is ramping back up this week at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and other locations around the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command chief Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr. said. New procedures are balancing urgent operational needs with the safety of ...
Air Combat Command is shifting from a "fighter roadmap" to a "capabilities" roadmap that will capture many of the things fighters do today, but likely with new types of unmanned systems and "attritable" aircraft, Gen. Mike Holmes told reporters Feb. 27. The idea of a ...
Air Force Research Laboratory Commander Maj. Gen. William Cooley was fired from his post Jan. 15 as USAF investigators look into allegations of misconduct. Air Force Materiel Command boss Gen. Arnold Bunch removed Cooley from his job “due to a loss of confidence in his ...
The Air Force plans to implement diagnostic fitness testing across the force as early as February, while Air Force Materiel Command will roll out a beta version of the no-fail trial tests on Jan. 20. Currently, airmen are tested once or twice a year, depending ...
Air Force officials have settled on the three programs they want to adopt as the service’s first “vanguards”: the Skyborg wingman drone, a weapon swarming project, and an experimental satellite effort, Air Force Materiel Command boss Gen. Arnold Bunch said Nov. 21. “We believe they’re ...
A coming $30 billion shift in the Air Force budget from legacy programs to those that better align with the National Defense Strategy won’t drive a reorganization of Air Force Materiel Command, but its leader, Gen. Arnold Bunch, said he wants the flexibility to reassign ...
The B-21 bomber contract doesn’t need to be renegotiated if the Air Force opts to speed up the production rate or increase the number built, Air Force Materiel Command chief Gen. Arnold Bunch told defense reporters in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21. Bunch acknowledged that ...