4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1610+ words) Over the past few months and peaking in August, crews with the 910th Airlift Wing out of Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, have been running nighttime, low-flying missions to kill a ubiquitous and deadly adversary that’s plagued Americans for centuries—mosquitoes....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (717+ words) The Air Force has issued a $100 million contract to combine its long-disjointed systems for managing aircrew readiness with software that is expected to reach initial operational capability next year, starting with the T-6A Texan II and the C-17 Globemaster III. The new software,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (554+ words) General Atomics Aeronautical Systems predicts the new drone it plans to pitch for the military’s massed modular aircraft program will exceed many of the military’s requirements for a successor to the MQ-9 Reaper. Wildfire, as General Atomics has dubbed it,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (541+ words) In the year since President Donald Trump announced U.S. Space Command would stand up its permanent headquarters in Huntsville—reversing a decision by former President Joe Biden to keep the command in Colorado—SPACECOM has made fast progress on its goal…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (740+ words) Shield AI, a specialist vying to provide the autonomy software for the Air Force’s autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft, has won government backing for its X-BAT drone—but not from USAF. Shield has not flown X-BAT yet; it unveiled the concept…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (659+ words) As Autonomous Drones Mature, Air Force Considers What Service With CCAs Will Look Like On the surface, the change of command ceremony that took place July 31 in a hangar at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., didn’t look that much different…...