Air Force Special Operations Command CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft have deployed from Hurlburt Field, Fla., on their first overseas stint, the Daily Report has confirmed. An undisclosed number of CV-22s and airmen are now outside of the US to participate...

The Air Force has awarded Boeing a $238 million contract for the system development and demonstration phase of the F-15E radar modernization program, the company announced yesterday. Under it, the Air Force intends to replace the APG-70 radars on all...

Lockheed Martin has won a $29 million contract from the Air Force to develop the capability for individual satellites to discern potential threats in their vicinity. The company announced Oct. 29 that it will mature these technologies during a two-year,...

The Pentagon said yesterday Stuttgart, Germany, will remain for now the headquarters location of US Africa Command, apparently squashing the hopes of communities on the US East Coast hoping to attract the mission. “We certainly looked at a number of alternatives,” said Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman in a meeting with reporters. He continued, “But, at the end of the day, it was determined that for now, and into the foreseeable future, the best location was for it to remain in its current headquarters.” AFRICOM, which became a unified command Oct. 1, has been using former facilities of US European Command at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart as its HQ. While the command intends to be heavily engaged with partner nations in capacity-building activities on the African continent, it does not intend to establish a large, permanent presence there. Whitman’s comment’s that there is no rush to vacate Kelley came as a Georgia Congressional delegation began lobbying Defense Secretary Robert Gates to consider bases in their state to host the new command. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R) and Rep. Tom Price (R), for example, sent Gates a letter Oct. 29, asking him to consider facilities in Marietta, including those at Dobbins Air Reserve Base. And, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported yesterday that Gingrey and Price had joined Gov. Sonny Perdue (R), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R), Sen. Johnny Isakson, and Rep, Jack Kingston in drafting another missive urging Gates to select Dobbins, Ft. McPheerson, or Ft. Gillem as the HQ. That letter was still collecting all of the signatures as of yesterday, according to Chambliss’ spokeswoman. Having a headquarters outside of a command’s area of operations is not unprecedented, as US Central Command and US Southern Command do in Tampa and Miami, respectively. (Includes AFPS report by John Kruzel)

That’s right. No service is better than the Air Force at taking care of members’ families, says Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Speaking to a gathering of students Oct. 28 at Air University on the...

Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, which became a hub of Western resolve against communism during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, closed yesterday, after 85 years of operations. The future of the site is uncertain, according to US and German press reports. Tempelhof,...

Veterans and active-duty members of the military not in uniform may now render the military-style hand salute during the playing of the national anthem based on a provision included in the Fiscal 2009 defense authorization act that became law earlier...

Oct. 28-29, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 52 30 82 11,038 CAS/Armed Recon 92 135 227 31,112 Airlift 283 283 39,292 Air refueling 103 103 15,323 Total 695 96,765 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...