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New Reports: Two Osprey Mishaps in One Week
The Air Force released accident investigation board reports into two CV-22 Osprey mishaps that took place in the span of five days last summer, both involving aircraft and crew from the 20th Special Operations Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M.
Daily Report: Recon Airmen Learn to Do C2 | VCSO on Threat from China, Russia | The Future of CCA Engines
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Daily Report: Clearing Up Boonie Hat Controversy | Space Force Enlisted PME | Air Base Defense
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Air Force Delivers Its First EA-37 Electronic Attack Aircraft to Home Base
The Air Force’s first mission-ready EA-37 Compass Call aircraft flew into Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., last week, the start of a major upgrade to the service’s electronic warfare fleet.
Daily Report: EW on Ukraine’s F-16s | Kadena Winds Down F-15C | Next Level of Space Domain Awareness
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Can the Pentagon Get to the ‘Next Level’ of Space Domain Awareness?
Retired Lt. Gen. John E. Shaw is often credited as the Pentagon's trailblazer in advocating for dynamic space operations. Now, he wants the military to get more dynamic in how it monitors and tracks objects and threats in orbit, as part of a broader shift ...
Allvin Takes Aim at New Area for Re-Optimization: Family Readiness
The Air Force’s sweeping effort to re-optimize for Great Power Competition needs to extend to families, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin wrote in a memo last week, urging Airmen, their loved ones, and community leaders to prepare for a potential conflict or contingency.
Air Force Opens the Door to Competition for New Ejection Seat
Editor’s Note: This story was updated Aug. 30 to include responses from Martin-Baker and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The Air Force has cracked the door open to a competition for its Next-Generation Ejection Seat, four years after...
Daily Report: US, S Korea to Fly 2,000 Sorties in 5 Days | Guard and Reserve Join AFJROTC | Allvin Touts ‘Built to Adapt’
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In a First, Air Guardsmen and Reservists Take on JROTC Instructor Duty
As schools come back into session for the fall, drilling Guardsmen and Reservists will take up Air Force JROTC instructor duty for the first time ever. The change required a change in law and more than a year of work to update Pentagon policies, but ...
REFORPAC: Allvin Details New Indo-Pacific Exercise Debuting in 2025
The Air Force will flood Airmen and aircraft into the Indo-Pacific next summer for a major exercise that will run for nearly two weeks and coincide with the multinational Talisman Sabre exercise, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said last week.
Daily Report: Allvin on Hurdles Facing ICC | Future of Space Force Recruiting | Advanced SATCOM Contract
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SDA Hands Out $424 Million for Advanced Comms Satellites
The Space Development Agency awarded contracts for the final 20 satellites in the second tranche of its proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation on Aug. 16, setting the stage for hundreds of satellites to launch in the next three years or so.
Space Force Relies on Airmen to Recruit, But Change Is Coming
The Space Force isn’t quite ready to take full responsibility for recruiting its own Guardians yet, but the service is preparing a detachment within the Air Force Recruiting Service to build a strategy for doing so, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force John F. ...
Daily Report: Reserve Wing Borrows New F-35s | New Boss at Space Forces Europe | Weather Ops
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