Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held meetings with defense leaders from the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea during a trip to the Indo-Pacific this week.
The B-2 bomber fleet is now using an open mission systems architecture that will accelerate the speed with which it can be equipped with new weapons and cuts software update time from years to weeks.
A new Air Force scholarship called Aim High Flight Academy gives high school and college students 15 hours of flight training to give them a leg up if they pursue a career in aviation.
A pair of chief information officers for Pentagon organizations argued for a more practical approach to artificial intelligence focused on things like streamlining organizational tasks across the Defense Department.
Air Combat Command is considering a supplement to dress and appearance standards that would limit the use of cold weather clothes such as beanies and fleeces to only certain colors, places, and times of year for Airmen assigned to ACC.
The U.S. Air Force will be well represented at the world's biggest military airshow and one of its largest airshows of any kind, running back to back in the coming weeks.
U.S. Air Force F-16s deployed to Bulgaria and Poland this week, putting fighters in multiple locations in eastern Europe and in relatively close proximity to Ukraine.
Australia’s 'Pitch Black' air combat exercise kicked off this week with an array of fighters that marks its biggest iteration ever since starting in 1981. The U.S. Air Force sent six F-22 Raptors from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.
Pratt & Whitney and the F-35 Joint Program Office have completed the preliminary design review of the Engine Core Upgrade of the fighter’s F135 engine, the company said this week, adding that the ECU is “on schedule and exceeding expectations.” Pratt is a subsidiary of ...
As the Department of the Air Force and the broader Pentagon plan out billions of dollars in spending to upgrade and modernize nuclear command, control, and communications, there are natural opportunities to build on work already done for the sweeping joint all-domain command and control ...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin wants Airmen to study up on drone warfare in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, citing their “transformative impact” on modern warfare, as part of the latest installment of his Leadership Library.
The improvements delivered through an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) includes $406 million of guaranteed energy savings over the course of the 25-year contract—meaning it requires no upfront investment from Yokota Air Base or U.S. taxpayers.
The Air Force will take steps to ensure its Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles can keep operating while the new Sentinel ICBM is delayed—but the moves won’t constitute a service life extension program, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration Lt. Gen. ...
In an “unprecedented" move, the Space Force has welcomed its first foreign officer to join the service’s top staff. Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman appointed Air Marshal Paul Godfrey as Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships, a brand ...
An inexperienced pilot’s errors and general lack of knowledge, combined with an overbearing operations supervisor, were the key factors that led to a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 crashing into the sea somewhere in the Middle East last September, according to a new accident investigation board ...