MAY 16, 2024 - The Department of the Air Force identified six locations May 15, 2024, to host experimental Air Task Forces that will test new methods to generate more efficient, integrated deployable Units of Action. As part of a pilot program, the following installations are expected to receive an ATF command echelon this summer, pending the successful completion of the … [Read more...]
Air Force Announces Changes to Training Allowances for Airmen
MAY 16, 2024 - Beginning May 7, Airmen and Guardians with dependents executing a permanent change of station to a professional military education or training location are now authorized to collect per diem in the amount of the basic allowance for housing without-dependent rate. Airmen and Guardians may collect this per diem if they are at the training location for less than … [Read more...]
F-16 Viper Demonstration Team Releases New Paint Scheme
MAY 15, 2024 - The U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper Demonstration Team unveiled a 50th anniversary paint scheme honoring the original aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., May 15 2024. The red, white and blue paint scheme was the original livery worn by the YF-16 prototype first flown in 1974. The team worked alongside the 412th Test Wing to complete the paint scheme in … [Read more...]
Navy Advances Development of Joint Simulation Environment
MAY 15, 2024 - Engineers from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) successfully installed core software in the Air Force’s future Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) facility at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada bringing the service closer to operating its own next-generation training and test facility. Nellis is the Air Force’s premier training and test … [Read more...]
Air Force Acquisition Instructor Course Open for Nominations
MAY 15, 2024 - Nominations are open now through July 26, 2024, for Class 25A of the Department of the Air Force Acquisition Instructor Course. Class 25A will run Jan. 6, 2025, to June 13, 2025. AQIC is a five-and-one-half month course operating under a strategic partnership with the U.S. Air Force Weapons School to develop operationally informed acquisition professionals as … [Read more...]