Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Wednesday he plans to release a paper with service Secretary Heather Wilson in the next couple of weeks to set five priorities for the future: restoring readiness, cost-effective modernization, space innovation, airman and leadership training and ...
The Air Force’s new chief of staff,Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, on Monday warned that the service can’t count on significantend strength growth, and will have to make better use of the airmen it already has if it wants to win a wa...
The Air Force's fiscal year 2025 budget request that will be announced Monday will be "unsatisfying," Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said today, as the service looks to modernize for what it calls "great power competition" amid congressional calls for fiscal moderation. The Air Force's ...
Allvin, who was sworn into the job in November, has a difficult job ahead as he leads the service through rising threats around the world and an uncertain budgetary landscape at home. In his first year as chief, Allvin’s priorities are “really to follow through on the good ideas that ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown’s directive to airmen to “accelerate change or lose” is gaining momentum after a year in practice, but the work to revamp the service’s culture has only just begun. ...
When Goldfein became the Air Force’s chief of staff in 2016, he made connecting the joint force one of his major priorities. Since then, the service has canceled efforts to replace legacy aircraft that play a role in battlefield management, such as a recapitalization...
re making rapid advances across every technology and mission area in the Department, and in the process, we are changing a culture to propel innovation. This organization gets right after the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force’s top priority of accelerating change and the Secretary’s ...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein repeatedly spoke about seeing a potential light-attack aircraft program asa way to increase interoperabilitywith air forces that couldn’t afford an F-15 or F-16, but who would benefit from commonality with American-operated pla...
“It is time to follow through,” he said, echoing Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin’s push to continue modernizing the force. Allvin picked Flosi from a pool of command chief master sergeants who were judged on their breadth of experience, professional rec...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., is tackling a systemic problem the service has faced for years-creating a dialog with Capitol Hill to explain why it is necessary to retire older aircraft and use those dollars for new equipment. The latest example of this is a ...