Appearing with nuclear commanders from across the US military, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled an enterprise-wide action plan for investment, improvement, and reform to address systemic problems identified across the nation’s nuclear deterrent force. “Our nuclear enterprise is foundational to...
Going forward, a four-star general will lead Air Force Global Strike Command and a three-star general will oversee the Air Staff’s nuclear directorate under the changes to the Defense Department’s nuclear enterprise that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel detailed on Friday....
The Pentagon’s in-house cost and performance assessment shop will track progress on the reforms the Defense Department is instituting to the nuclear enterprise, said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Analysts in the Office of Cost Analysis and Program Evaluation will assess...
MSgt. Thomas Case, a Tactical Air Control Party airman with the 18th Air Support Operations Group at Pope Field, N.C., received a Silver Star for his heroic actions in Afghanistan in June 2009. Maj. Gen. Harry Polumbo, 9th Air Force...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced an ambitious effort to make targeted, long-term investments in cutting-edge technology so that the US military maintains its edge in the coming decades in the face of increasingly destabilizing threats and mounting fiscal pressures. The...
US and Japanese personnel are practicing simulated rescue operations together from Komatsu, AB, Japan, during Exercise Keen Sword, according to a release. The biennial field training? event is designed to improve their ability to protect Japan and respond to natural...
Ninety US service personnel returning from West Africa arrived at the Langley Transit Center at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., to begin a 21-day controlled monitoring period to make sure they don’t exhibit symptoms of having the Ebola virus before they return...
Los Angeles AFB, Calif., became the first Defense Department installation to host an all-electric-vehicle fleet with the rollout of 42 general-purpose, plug-in electric vehicles. Unveiled on Nov. 14, the electric and hybrid vehicles include sedans, trucks, and a 12-passenger van,...
The Coast Guard took delivery of the first of 14 former Air National Guard C-27J transports it is slated to receive. The airplane, which formerly served at the Mississippi ANG’s schoolhouse at Key Field in Meridian, was ferried on Nov....
An entry in the Nov. 14 Daily Report incorrectly identified Maj. Ray Vann’s title. He is the ICBM operations lead at Air Force Global Strike Command’s Applied Capabilities Office. The original entry has been corrected.
