The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is looking for vendors to help it modernize and operate its network infrastructure across the service, including at Guard and Reserve bases, according to a request for proposal (RFP) from the branch’s Enterprise IT and Cyber Infrastructure Division. […]...
and launch operations at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla., and Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., will be realigned under the SSC. The inaugural commander of the United Kingdom’s new Space Command has been announced as Air Commodore Paul Godfrey OBE who will be promoted to the rank ...
c.1920: Abandoned and taken over by the Dept of Agriculture, also used as temporary storage depot for WW1 surplus; a few Army bombers from other bases used the runway occasionally for practice landings. 1942: Reactivated for flight training, but again found little use as being too small. ...
Maj. Daniel Prudhomme, the director of Orange Flag at Edwards Air Force Base in California, said it was the first time the test flag enterprise had tried to connect more than two geographically-separated areas with low-latency data link networks. The Air Force previously linked ...
Autonomy Prime invited Air Force leaders to McClellan Airfield to watch Xwing demonstrate how autonomous aviation can contribute to the Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept, which is to disperse aircraft and equipment between major hub bases and smaller airfields to improve resilience and survivabilit...
In this thesis the primary inefficiencies of the Military Construction Program (MCP), as commonly perceived by the Air Force Region Civil Engineer (AFRCE), the Major Command (MAJCOM), and the bases are identified. These three management levels are the primary managers of the MCP program. The...
In Vietnam it had the call sign SCATBACK, moving between bases in Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand carrying photos from RF-101 and RF-4C missions to Saigon; hauling (small) high priority spare parts, keeping aircraft operational while awaiting parts from PACAF and CONUS; and moving gener...
Participated in the intensive campaign against the German Air Force and aircraft industry during Big Week, 20-25 Feb 1944. Received a DUC for aggressiveness in seeking out and destroying enemy aircraft and in attacking enemy air bases, 5 Mar-24 Apr 1944. Flew interdictory and counter-air ...
it. I replied, “Yes there is a parachute for each of the crewmembers, and those parachutes are different from yours. The Air Force knows that we have enough sense to pull our own D-rings and we don’t have to hook up static lines.” They were quiet as we continued to the cockpit...
The 19th Air Force grounded its T-6 fleet Feb. 1 after13 pilots at three basesexperienced “unexplained physiological events” during the last week of January. AETC said that the incidents were different from “classic hypoxia” ― a condition that occurs when someone has too little oxy...