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John Vandiver Stars and Stripes The failure to control F-35 aircraft cost overruns should force the Pentagon to scale back its fleet of advanced warplanes unless it can find new savings, a government watchdog agency report said. The development of the advanced F-35 fighter, the most costly weapon system in Defense Department history, has faced steadily rising […]

A federal judge on Tuesday has ruled that the failure of the US Air Force to log the criminal history into a database is the primary factor for the 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez for the Western District of Texas determined that the USAF’s failure to enter the gunman’s […]

Karsten Haake, Lendlease project director for the Campbell Crossing community, gives Brenda Lee McCullough, director, U.S. Army Installation Management Command Directorate-Readiness, a tour of the New Hammond Heights community May 5. Photo by Maria McClure Wyatt Olson Stars and Stripes One of the major companies participating in the Defense Department’s beleaguered privatized military housing program announced Tuesday […]

Lee Roop al.com Two retired generals, including one with Alabama ties, have spoken out against the Air Force plan to make Redstone Arsenal the permanent home of the U.S. Space Command by arguing that it would cost billions and take years of risk to make the move to Huntsville. The generals’ assessment apparently favors Colorado in that state’s ongoing attempt to overturn an Air Force site selection process […]

Afghans who maintain the country’s military aircraft have been learning to fix damaged aircraft over the past two months via videoconferences with U.S.-funded contractors just a few rooms away.

Dave Ress Daily Press The Air Force is going ahead with a proposal to permanently move its F-22 fighter jet training operation from Florida to Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced Friday. The Air Force’s F-22 Formal Training Unit has been operating out of Eglin Air Force Base since a hurricane in 2018 damaged its longstanding home at Tyndall Air Force Base. […]

An Air Force staff sergeant was sentenced to 30 years in prison for crimes including sexually abusing a child, wrongfully photographing the child, and viewing and possessing child pornography.

Despite cries from Colorado, acting Secretary of the Air Force John Roth told Congress again Wednesday he knows of no political influence behind the decision to move Space Command headquarters to Alabama.

Jun. 17—The Air Force has authorized airmen across the service to wear tactical operational camouflage pattern caps, which have the appearance of military-grade baseball caps.

As the US Air Force’s promise to buy 1,783 F-35A Lightning IIs goes from “guaranteed” to “maybe,” the folks at Lockheed-Martin aren’t terribly worried.