Wilson for Vice Chief
Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson, deputy chief of US Strategic Command, is likely to be nominated to receive a fourth star and to take over as Air Force vice chief of staff from Gen. David Goldfein, who’s been nominated to be...
SASC Wants to Penalize DOD for Cost-Plus Contract
The Senate Armed Services Committee is attempting to discourage the use of cost-type contracts in its version of the Fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. A SASC aide—who likened the Pentagon’s use of cost-based contracts to a drug addiction—said Monday...
Don’t Forget the Allies
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the Fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act calls for a $1 billion fund to be used by allies to buy US-made precision guided missiles, a SASC aide said Monday. Precision guided munitions have...
Arming Libya
The US and more than two dozen other nations on Monday declared the possibility of arming the Libyan government to fight the growing threat of ISIS in the country. US Secretary of State John Kerry and about two dozen ministers...
China Says Report Damaged Trust
China has claimed that a report released Friday by the Pentagon “severely damaged mutual trust” between the US and China, Agence France-Presse reported. The Defense Department’s annual report to Congress on China noted that throughout 2015, China “continued to assert...
LRASM Presses On
Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control division has received a $321.8 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract from the Navy to complete design, software and test of the joint-service Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), a variant of the Air Force’s stealthy AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface...
Ramstein Airmen Train With Romanians
Airmen with the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein AB, Germany, are training with Romanian troops this month during an 11-day combined air exercise called Carpathian Summer 2016. The off-station training began May 9 at Otopeni AB, Romania, according to an...
Urgent Care Without a Referral
Tricare Prime beneficiaries will soon be able to make limited visits to urgent care facilities without a referral. The Defense Department will launch the Urgent Care Pilot Program on May 23, which will allow Tricare Prime beneficiaries—including Active Duty service...
Lockheed Delivers Another MC-130J
Air Force Special Operations Command this month received its newest MC-130J Commando II aircraft, part of an ongoing multi-billion dollar contract to deliver 78 total C-130J variants. An Air Force crew on May 12 ferried the new Commando II from...