Air Force Space Command has accepted GEO-2, the second Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous satellite, for operations, announced service space officials. GEO-2’s performance matches that of GEO-1, the first SBIRS satellite, and in some cases exceeds it, states the Space...
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Monday said goodbye to the Defense Department workforce during a ceremony at the Pentagon. His final working day is Wednesday, but the Dec. 2 ceremony was his official farewell. “It’s been the greatest privilege...
The Air Force is dropping numerous Air Force Specialty Codes from its list of selective reenlistment bonuses, effective Dec. 5, announced the Air Force Personnel Center. Among the 45 codes the service is eliminating are: air traffic control, aircraft structural...
The Air Force’s Active Duty component met its enlisted recruiting goal for the 14th straight year in Fiscal 2013, announced service recruiting officials. In all, it brought in 26,022 new enlistees and 253 prior-service members, according to a Nov. 26...
The Air Force Expeditionary Center at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., completed its final training course for military working dog teams before this instruction shifts to Fort Bliss, Tex., under the service’s broader consolidation of its stateside security forces training at Fort...
The Air Force’s Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education at Maxwell AFB, Ala., recently launched a website that’s designed to make it easier for airmen to access the service’s fundamental documents, its doctrine. The new website is...
Raytheon delivered the first order of control section modification units for the Air Force’s AGM-88M High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles, announced the company. This upgrade is known as HCSM. It adds Global Positioning System guidance and “improves inertial navigation system capability at...
Col. Paul Tibbets IV, grandson of the late retired Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets and Air Force Global Strike Command’s deputy director of operations, qualified to fly the B-52H, making him one of a select few pilots trained to fly all...
Officials at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, dedicated a Royal Australian Air Force F-111C into the museum’s collection. Among the dignitaries at the Nov. 23 ceremony were Air Force Acting Secretary Eric Fanning, Pacific Air Forces...
