JULY 16, 2024 - The Air Force Materiel Command held its annual Agile Patriot conference July 9-11, at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, preparing junior uniformed and civilian Airmen to meet today’s challenges. The event focused on reoptimization for Great Power Competition and the importance of care of mission, self and others. Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, AFMC … [Read more...]

JULY 15, 2024 - Exercise Pitch Black 2024, the largest iteration of the Royal Australian Air Force's premiere biennial flying exercise, officially opened on July 12 in Darwin, Australia during a ceremony held at the Darwin Convention Center attended by service members from multiple countries. RAAF and Australian leaders provided remarks regarding the growth of the exercise … [Read more...]

JULY 12, 2024 — Air University and Auburn University’s Warrior Research Center are partnering together on a Comprehensive Airman Fitness initiative called BOLT , a term derived from the lightning bolts on the Air University shield, which is set to begin a beta testing phase during academic year 2025, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. “BOLT is a new holistic approach to … [Read more...]

JULY 11, 2024 - The Defense Department has announced its decision to continue to modernize the land-based leg of the nuclear triad with a program called Sentinel. That decision comes after the Air Force notified Congress in January that the program had exceeded its baseline cost and triggered what is known as a Nunn-McCurdy breach. The Nunn-McCurdy Amendment was enacted in … [Read more...]

From left to right, a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and F-16 Fighting Falcon, French Air and Space Force Dassault Rafale and Airbus A400M Atlas, a German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon, a U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet, a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II, and a German Air Force PA-200 Tornado, fly in formation during Arctic Defender 24 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, … [Read more...]