Daily Report

March 4, 2015

DMSP’s Silent Spatter in Space

A military weather satellite cracked up Feb. 3 after the power system overheated causing it to spin out of control, Air Force Space Command officials told Air Force Magazine in a statement released March 3. The Joint Space Operations Center...

Carter, Dempsey Urge Sequester Repeal

Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey implored members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday to undo sequestration once and for all. Carter said he shared the President’s desire to...

Contingencies and the Strategy

Proposed Pentagon reforms on matters such as pay and benefits, equipment retirements, and other priorities are critical to sustaining the existing defense strategy, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. Oversea?s contingency operations...

USAF Budget Request Bolsters MILCON Funding

The Air Force’s Fiscal 2015 budget accepts risks in installation support, military construction, and facilities sustainment in order to “strike the delicate balance between a ready force for today with a modern force for tomorrow,” but the Fiscal 2016 budget...

Assuring Syria CSAR

US Central Command is considering putting more combat search and rescue assets into Turkey to reinforce the US’ ability to retrieve potential downed airmen from Iraq or Syria, CENTCOM boss Army Gen. Lloyd Austin testified on Tuesday. “I think we...

Missouri Air Guardsmen Deploy to Qatar

More than 100 members of the Missouri Air National Guard’s 139th Airlift Wing deployed to Al Udeid AB, Qatar, in late February. While deployed aircrews, maintenance, and support personnel from the 180th Airlift Squadron and the 139th Maintenance Group along...

Raising Pegasus Pens

Builders are busy erecting three large hangars to house maintenance work on the future KC-46A Pegasus fleet at McConnell AFB, Kan. Workers laid concrete and are planning to raise the steel structure of Hangar 1126—the first of the trio—this week,...

SIGAR Supplements January Report on Afghan Military

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko released a supplement Tuesday to his January quarterly report to Congress, criticizing the Defense Department for “inconsistent” reporting practices and lack of key figures. NATO’s Operation Resolute Support Commander, Army Gen....