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  • DAF Joint Statement on Afghanistan Airport attack

    On behalf of the entire Department of the Air Force, our heartfelt sympathies go to the loved ones of the brave American service members killed and wounded in today’s terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. Our hearts are heavy for their sacrifice as they endeavored to bring hope to thousands seeking a better life.
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    Grand Forks AFB to lead future ISR missions

    The Department of the Air Force announced today it will conduct infrastructure planning in 2022 for construction and renovation projects at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, projected to begin in 2023.
  • AFSAC FMS graphic by Jonathan Tharp

    Behind the scenes of foreign military sales: AFSAC helps international partners overcome airpower supply shortages

    Recently, AFSAC worked with a key international partner nation to clear more than a dozen Not Mission Capable Supply cases which inhibited the foreign partner’s aircraft from performing identified missions. When an NMCS code appears for a country’s weapon system, the weapon system is not capable of performing its assigned missions due to lack of critical parts.

  • Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Directorate celebrates 2-year anniversary

    The directorate is responsible for ensuring the Air Force is able to use the electromagnetic spectrum to secure friendly communications, command and control, friendly kill chains and deny the adversary from using the domain.
  • CSAF Visits Team Kirtland

    CSAF visits Kirtland AFB

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., along with his wife, Sharene, visited Kirtland Air Force Base, Aug. 12-13.

  • Women celebrate a rich history of resiliency

    For 100 years, women and their allies worked to obtain equal rights. They deployed radical campaigns, hunger strikes and picketing at the White House.
  • A U.S. Air Force Airman plays the ukulele for children from Afghanistan during Operation Allies Refuge at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Aug. 24, 2021. Ramstein AB is providing safe, temporary lodging for evacuees. Many service members are also volunteering to raise morale for evacuees as they await transportation to more permanent resettlement locations.

    Operation Allies Refuge: Ramstein AB transforms into major evac hub

    Following the rapid deterioration of security in Afghanistan, the first of many aircraft carrying U.S. citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and other vulnerable Afghans landed at the installation Aug. 20 as part of Operation Allies Refuge. Since then, Ramstein AB has received more than 11,000 evacuees as they await transportation to their final destination. More than 2,500 people have already departed Ramstein AB for the United States.

  • Mansfield-Lahm ANG Base named preferred location for Cyber Warfare Wing

    The Department of the Air Force announced today that it has identified Ohio’s Mansfield-Lahm Air National Guard Base as the preferred location for a new Cyber Warfare Wing mission. The transformation will support Air Combat Command’s future requirements and result in operational mission changes, including an increase of approximately 175 Airmen and associated infrastructure support.
  • Senior Master Sergeant Sgt. Stephanie Franco, production superintendent for the 338th Recruiting Squadron based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Master Sgt. Meagan Roberts from headquarters, Air Force Recruiting Service, Joint Base San Antonio, Randolph, Texas, monitors the “Celebrating Sisterhood Through Empowerment, Progress, and Change” Women’s Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 10, 2021. Franco and Roberts were on the team that organized the symposium which lasted through Aug. 12 and had more than 100 participants from throughout the U.S. representing the Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard.

    AFRS looks through diverse lens to support, retain leaders

    In the heart of a city known for its military culture, Air Force Recruiting Service is looking through a diverse lens to attract the best of America. More than 100 people throughout the U.S. assembled for the “Celebrating Sisterhood Through Empowerment, Progress, and Change” Women’s Symposium at a hotel in downtown San Antonio, Aug. 10-12. Dozens more tuned in virtually.
  • Master Sgt. Bartek Bachleda (right), 22nd Air Refueling Wing aircraft boom operator, from McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, briefs his idea to the Spark Tank panel during the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 22, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wayne A. Clark)

    Airman’s KC-135 solution scales from initial spark into action

    An empowered Airman’s innovation has made it past Initial Operational Capability and is en route to be fully scaled across the Air Force’s fleet of KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft.

  • AFRL’s Entrepreneur Opportunity Program turns people, ideas into new private sector businesses

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Entrepreneurial Opportunities Program is turning scientists and engineers into business owners to speed emerging technology to warfighters.
  • SECAF Space Symposium

    Kendall, Raymond stress importance of space and Space Force’s success in separate, high-profile speeches

    Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond highlight the importance of space during speeches at the 36th Space Symposium.

  • Air Force revises wing, vice and group command screening board process

    This year, the Air Force implemented a revised process for the 2022 wing, vice and group command screening boards to streamline notification, align more closely with joint partners and enhance senior leader talent management. Approximately 24% of all O-6 positions are command billets and half of the 780 command positions come vacant each year.

  • Air Force update for COVID-19

    Below are current coronavirus disease 2019 statistics for Department of Air Force personnel:
  • BRAC whole base transfer summary

    Air Force BRAC program nears transfer milestones

    Between now and the end of 2022, if all goes according to plan, the Air Force will transfer these parcels of land to local communities and close the chapter on the storied histories of Galena Forward Operating Location, Alaska, and Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois.

  • Department of the Air Force releases staff sergeant/21E5 promotion cycle statistics

    Department of the Air Force officials selected 15,660 Air Force senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant out of 44,663 eligible for a selection rate of 35.06% in the 21E5 promotion cycle, which includes supplemental promotion opportunities.
  • Airmen from the 436th Operational Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape flight sit in a 25-man survival raft near Coast Guard Station Indian River Inlet, Delaware, Aug. 4, 2021. Exercise Castaway is an interagency training exercise that brought Airmen from Dover AFB and two coast guard stations, Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Coast Guard Station Indian River Inlet, Delaware, together to train local search and rescue procedures. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Marco A. Gomez)

    Dover AFB leads joint, interagency survival training

    Members of the 436th Operational Support Squadron Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape flight partnered with the 3rd Airlift Squadron at Dover AFB, Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Coast Guard Station Indian River Inlet, Delaware, to train local search and rescue procedures during Exercise Castaway.
  • Image of a brain graphic with a logo.

    Air Force mental health leaders discuss future of field

    Mental health leaders across the Air Force met virtually for an annual conference, August 9-13, to discuss military mental health care, telehealth, the impact of COVID-19 and embedded mental health support.
  • Two KC-135 Stratotankers sit in front of a hangar during Utah Air National Guard’s bi-annual Wingman Day and 75th Anniversary event at the Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 7, 2021. During the event the Utah ANG, in collaboration with Collins Aerospace, successfully demonstrated advanced communication, mission computing and sensor technologies to support Joint All Domain Command and Control and Advanced Battle Management initiatives on a KC-135.

    Utah ANG demonstrates multi-domain battlespace connectivity on KC-135

    The presentation showed how integrated technologies and joint connectivity can provide warfighters with the actionable data and increased situational awareness they need to make informed, split-second decisions in evolving threat conditions against cyber-sophisticated adversaries.

  • AFIMSC expands eLearning platform to Total Force

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Directorate of Personnel team relaunched the RedVector eLearning platform recently, making it accessible to more Airmen and Guardians to provide broader support for job-mandated training requirements, professional credentialing and licensing.
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