JULY 11, 2024 - Unprecedented changes to the global security environment are driving sweeping reforms to the way the U.S. Air Force will develop, deploy, and employ combat forces and capabilities to defend the United States, allies and partners nations around the world. Officials from Air Education and Training Command, which will be redesignated as Airman Development … [Read more...]

JULY 10, 2024 - Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst played a vital role in a historic first cargo flight as part of a demonstration of the ALIA CTOL battery-powered fixed-wing aircraft, July 9, 2024. The National Aerospace Research and Technology Park (NARTP) in Atlantic City tested the aircraft’s cargo usage by flying a lap pattern from Atlantic City, Dover AFB, and JB … [Read more...]

JULY 9, 2024 - On Jan. 18, 2024, the Air Force notified Congress that the Sentinel program exceeded its baseline cost projections, resulting in a critical breach under the Nunn-McCurdy statute. A critical Nunn-McCurdy breach occurs if the Program Acquisition Unit Cost or Average Unit Procurement Cost increases by 25% or more over the current Acquisition Program Baseline. By … [Read more...]

JULY 8, 2024 – Airmen from across the 374th Airlift Wing, 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing and Japan Air Self-Defense Force joined representatives from Shizuoka City in remembrance during the annual B-29 Superfortress memorial ceremony on Mt. Shizuhata, Japan, June 29. Since 1972, the victims of a B-29 aircraft collision during World War II have been honored with an annual … [Read more...]

Katija Frei, a Rhineland-Pfalz Polizei dog handler, guides police dog Ares, through an explosive material detection scenario during an international working dog training seminar at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, June 26, 2024. The 52nd Security Forces Squadron hosted the training for U.S., German and Luxembourg military units and law enforcement agencies. (U.S. Air Force photo … [Read more...]