Friday, December 6, 2024
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.
Air Force Air Combat Command's airborne networking industry day to be held Wednesday will explore ways to incorporate cloud-based airborne networking into future families of systems, as well as to drive current networking efforts that exist between services, to join initiatives already underway in other services and create new ones altogether.
U.S. Strategic Command chief Gen. John Hyten has rescinded a request for forces, more than a year after it was submitted to the Joint Staff, to add more security personnel at intercontinental ballistic missile sites while the Air Force replaces the UH-1N Huey.
Radar warning receiver technology that was questioned in a recent Government Accountability Office report is expected to be mature enough to integrate into Sikorsky's HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter in 2018, the Air Force said last week.
The Trump administration and the Air Force have finalized minimum requirements for the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program, green-lighting price negotiations with Boeing, service officials told Inside the Air Force this week.
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Air Force officials report they are ahead of schedule in working through the service's war-planning software's remaining problems, after issuing a critical change report and editing the program's schedule baselines last fall.
Boeing will provide the Air Force with 18 more QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Targets by April 2021 under a $24.7 million contract option the service activated last month, extending the existing contract to November 2020, a company spokesman wrote in an April 6 email.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Wednesday a continuing resolution that lasts until October would delay the service's $6.9 billion engineering and manufacturing development contract for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization, due in 2018, for at least five months.
A Lockheed Martin-built F-16C belonging to the D.C. Air National Guard crashed outside Joint Base Andrews, MD, during a routine training mission with other guard aircraft in the Washington area Wednesday morning, the Air National Guard stated in a release.
Gen. John Hyten, head of U.S. Strategic Command, said Tuesday he signed off on guidance last week to dictate how to engage with unmanned aerial vehicles spotted near weapons facilities in the United States.
U.S. Strategic Command chief Gen. John Hyten on Tuesday told the Senate Armed Services Committee that 100 new B-21 bombers would be enough to satisfy strategic requirements, after the Air Force surprised analysts by suggesting it may look to grow the program.
The Air Force is asking for $178.2 million in the fiscal year 2017 defense budget amendment to support research, development and procurement of systems to counter small unmanned aerial vehicles, as a U.S. Central Command official promotes a proactive approach.
The Air Force will negotiate a fiscal year 2017 sole-source contract with GoHypersonics to "investigate hypersonic vehicle concepts based on relevant [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] mission specifications, and then develop surrogate based models to use within quick-turn analysis methods to support conceptual design."
The Air Force is planning to offer airmen tiered bonuses based on length of service, the Air Force's personnel chief told the House Armed Services military personnel subcommittee this week.
The Air Force's Air Combat and Special Operations commands are seeking to determine how to balance their efforts to put a laser on both a fighter jet and a gunship in the 2020s, as ACC ponders how directed energy might play into its Penetrating Counterair concept in the next few years.
As Air Force secretary nominee Heather Wilson heads to her first confirmation hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday morning, analysts in Washington say her experience on Capitol Hill will likely prove useful as she navigates issues like the nuclear enterprise and the F-35A.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Jack Weinstein said this week Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has instructed the military to complete a nuclear posture review in six months -- a time line that could mean the process wraps up around the time the Air Force awards the next phase of nuclear missile modernization.
Air Force Global Strike Command will host its inaugural nuclear deterrence operations innovation summit this summer to find ways to advance the service's national leadership command capabilities and nuclear command, control and communications enterprise in 2035 and beyond, according to a Federal Business Opportunities notice posted last week.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will consider Heather Wilson, President Trump's pick for Air Force secretary, at a confirmation hearing Thursday morning, according to the committee's website.
Afghan troops received another four fixed-wing A-29 aircraft March 20, the Defense Department said this week, bringing their in-country Super Tucano fleet to 12 total.