Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a retired Air Force brigadier general and ISR pilot, has raised concerns about the service’s budget and the rate at which it is retiring aircraft in the past. Now, he’s hoping a new force design study he pushed for will articulate the ...
Before the Space Force was founded in December 2019, the Air Force was the service responsible for most military missions in space. Dating back decades, tens of thousands of Airmen were involved in space operations—Air Force Space Command at one point claimed more than 26,000 ...
Members of the House Armed Services Committee are concerned about missile warning and defense—from the homeland to Europe and the Indo-Pacific and extending into space. Lawmakers on the panel agreed to a half dozen or so amendments pressing the Pentagon for more information and analysis on ...
House lawmakers approved three amendments aimed at curtailing Air Force plans to retire aging fighter jets as both the Senate and House began marking up their respective drafts of the 2024 defense authorization bill.
Two Air Force veterans from opposite sides of the political aisle will chair a new House Armed Services Committee panel on quality of life issues affecting military families and service members. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a retired USAF brigadier general and RC-135 pilot, chairs the panel, ...
After back-to-back years of significant spending increases for defense, Congressional hawks may face stiffer opposition in the year ahead, with pushback from members of both major political parties.
For years now, Air Force officials, members of Congress, and defense analysts have raised concerns over so-called “pass-through” funding—billions of dollars that are officially included in the department’s top line but are never actually controlled by the Air Force, instead going to classified or undisclosed ...
The Air Force Academy has separated 22 students and put 210 on probation as a result of the widespread cheating scandal in the spring of 2020, the Academy’s superintendent told its Board of Visitors on April 13. All told, almost every disciplinary case from the ...
President Joe Biden’s administration and the Defense Department are looking at the possibility of splitting up control of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, reviving a long-running debate over how the two organizations are led. Since the stand-up of CYBERCOM in 2009, its ...
Inflation, imperfect early estimates, and rising construction costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to significantly raise the expected cost of rebuilding Offutt Air Force Base from the devastating floods of 2019, Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon said in an interview. The new estimate is ...
The Pentagon needs an overseer at the highest level for the joint electromagnetic warfare fight to coordinate responses to China and Russia, experts said at a Hudson Institute webinar. The services' fragmented approach can be overcome by the enterprise approach taken by U.S. adversaries, they ...
House Armed Services Committee members are launching a task force to dig into defense supply chain issues, the panel said March 4. Reps. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) will co-chair the group as it looks at threats to and vulnerabilities in the defense ...