The Air Force released the names and work locations of seven main industrial partners of Northrop Grumman on the new B-21 bomber Monday. Pratt & Whitney, in East Hartford, Conn., will serve as the principal subcontractor, confirming Air Force Magazine’s...
The B-2 bomber program was classified “too long” before Congress and the public were allowed to know about it, and when the information was revealed, “there was sticker shock” that undermined support for the project, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee...
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee chided Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James last week for pursuing a cost-plus contract for the new B-21 bomber instead of a fixed-price arrangement, but senior uniformed acquisition official Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch...
The Air Force will award the Silver Star posthumously to Capt. Matthew Roland, a special tactics officer who was killed in an Aug. 25, 2015, insider attack in Afghanistan. Roland, who was deployed from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at...
Less than a week after a heated exchange with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over the A-10 that had Air Force Chief Gen. Mark Welsh balling his fists in visible frustration, Welsh told reporters he believes the Air Force’s relationship with...
An airstrike from both manned and unmanned US aircraft on Saturday destroyed an al Shabaab training camp inside Somalia, reportedly killing 150 fighters. The airstrike targeted Raso Camp, an al Shabaab training facility about 120 miles north of Mogadishu. Pentagon...
The Department of Defense looked at its nuclear strategic portfolio and quickly realized that “unless the department was willing to divest the submarine leg of the triad—which we’re not—there’s no way to pay for [nuclear] modernization within the budget,” said...
The current priority on protecting readiness funding was prompted in part by sequestration, when the services had to shut down training and furlough civilian employees—forcing troops to skip critical exercises, Jamie Morin said Monday at a budget discussion hosted by...
The White House in the coming weeks will release the first in a set of annual reports on the number of people killed in US drone strikes, a move an Obama Administration official said is a step toward “greater transparency.”...
More than 100 wounded airmen recently competed in the Air Force Trials—an adaptive sports event—at Nellis AFB, Nev., for a chance to participate in the 2016 Wounded Warriors games. Athletes competed in seven events during the trials, which ran Feb....
