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Rachel Cohen was managing editor for Inside the Air Force until January 2019. She previously covered the public health insurance marketplaces for Inside Health Policy and primary, secondary and higher education at the Frederick News-Post in Frederick County, Maryland. She graduated from American University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in international studies and journalism.
The Joint Staff has wrapped up a Functional Capabilities Board review of an electromagnetic battle management initial capabilities document to be approved by the Joint Capabilities Board early next year, military officials recently told Inside the Air Force.
The Air National Guard's full-time force falls a couple hundred pilots short of where it needs to be, but the Guard is in a unique position to help grow the service's pilot pipeline, according to the head of the National Guard Bureau.
Air Force Global Strike Command will host a "concept and challenges" workshop next month to explore near-term improvements to nuclear command, control and communications.
The Air Force is delaying its engineering and manufacturing development contract award for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization program from March to August 2018 as companies work through evaluation notices, two industry sources told Inside Defense Friday.
A B-2 bomber successfully flight tested Military-Code GPS using a Raytheon-built receiver for the first time during a series of four tests in June and July, Raytheon said this week.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told lawmakers this week the GPS III Follow-On program is an example of how the Defense Department is giving the services more leeway to manage their own acquisitions.
The Defense Department announced this week it has added $46 million to a $13.1 million undefinitized contract awarded to Boeing in June for the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System's digital avionics overhaul, and the previous contract's details are now final.
Some must-reads from this week's Inside the Air Force.
The Air Force recently notified lawmakers it is moving nearly $20 million in fiscal year 2017 procurement funding to modify 14 MQ-9 Block 5 aircraft as a new-start program.
The E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System program office and Boeing are still working through myriad technical problems discovered in the fleet's Block 40/45 overhaul, though more than 12 aircraft have already been upgraded, according to the colonel who oversees the fleet at Tinker Air Force Base, OK.
Air Force leaders will review the service's programs, budgets and manpower to find ways to get the best bang for their buck in the fiscal year 2020 program objective memorandum and future years defense plan, the service said this week.
Raytheon will add its GBU-49 Enhanced Paveway II to the F-35A under a Nov. 22 contract worth nearly $60 million, according to an Air Force spokesman.
The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center on Nov. 21 published a sole-source contract notice for the first production lots of the B61-12 weapon, expecting to buy two lots between fiscal years 2019 to 2022.
The head of the Air Force's 2017 Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team studying multidomain command and control wants to stand up a full-time MDC2 task force with a dedicated acquisition team to implement the effort's campaign plan, according to slides obtained by Inside the Air Force.
The Air Force's new chief data officer is developing a three-year strategy for how the service can more effectively manage, use and govern its data, while studying potential improvements in five specific areas.
Some must-reads from this week's issue of Inside the Air Force.
The Deployable Radar Approach Control system entered developmental test in October as program officials prepare to stretch its production over seven years starting in 2019.
Boeing's initial blueprint for a new intercontinental ballistic missile recently passed muster with the Air Force during a key review, clearing the defense contractor to proceed with initial systems development as part of an $18 billion project to develop two competing designs as part of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.
Tyndall Air Force Base, FL, is next in line to receive a wing of 24 MQ-9 Reaper aircraft, the Air Force announced Tuesday night.
Raytheon is protesting the Air Force's decision to exclude aircraft with the company's "Archimedes" wide-area surveillance radar from the range of bids the service will consider for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization program, a company spokesman confirmed Tuesday.