Author: Brian Lee

This is the second time Andersen AFB welcomed the Lancers for a Bomber Task Force mission this year, demonstrating the bomber’s ability to rapidly deploy anywhere, anytime, and provide lethal precision global strike options for combatant commanders.

Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, U.S. Transportation Command commander, provided the keynote address Oct. 17 at the National Defense Transportation Association-Transcom fall meeting.

The Air Force confirmed Oct. 20 it plans to reveal the B-21 Raider Dec. 2 during an unveiling ceremony hosted and sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Corporation at its production facilities in Palmdale, California.

Two KC-135 Stratotankers simultaneously conducted 72-hour single-aircraft endurance missions, demonstrating multi-day tanker mission generation capabilities, Oct. 4-7. 

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation, or CRI, held an event Oct. 6 with the Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing for a ROAM Robotics team to demonstrate the latest Forge System, a pneumatically-powered exoskeleton that augments leg strength to reduce fatigue, increase endurance and offset weight.

Meeting the challenges of the 2022 National Defense Strategy requires a range of new and innovative approaches to training U.S. Air Force senior leaders. One such way is through the 705th Training Squadron’s restructuring of their training portfolio to include the Air Component Senior Leader Course. This new course is designed for O-6 level division chiefs and senior staff principals, taught at Hurlburt Field.  

Hot off the publication of its Digital Modernization Strategy, the Air Force Test Center kicked off three digital-engineering efforts to provide on-ramps for the Air Force’s evolving digital-engineering technology ecosystem.

The Senate easily confirmed Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman to be the U.S. Space Force’s next chief of space operations Sept. 29, positioning him to lead the nation’s newest military service at a crucial moment in its young and still evolving life.

The Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flew their last flight into Hurricane Ian Sept. 29th, their 14th mission into the storm in a week, collecting data to assist National Hurricane Center forecasters.

The future of the long-standing relationship between the U.S. Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force was further strengthened Sept. 14 in Washington, D.C. with the signing of a Joint Vision Statement by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., and Air Marshal Robert Chipman.