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Around the Air Force Year in Review: Great Power Competition, Realignment for Readiness, and Housing Feedback System
January 3, 2025 — In this week’s look around the Air Force, we look back at three significant stories from 2024: SECAF highlights key accomplishments and emphasizes GPC, the Air Force realigns to maintain future competitiveness, and the Department of Defense launches a new online housing feedback system to improve quality of life... MORE

Around the Air Force: Air Task Force Combat Support Training, first Guardian launches into space, childcare pilot program
October 11, 2024 — In this week’s look around the Air Force, Air Task Forces prepare for Combat Support Training, the first U.S. Space Force Guardian launches into space on a NASA mission, and the Department of Defense creates a pilot program to cover certain childcare costs after a PCS... MORE

In this week’s look around the Air Force, Air Task Forces prepare for Combat Support Training, the first U.S. Space Force Guardian launches into space on a NASA mission, and the Department of Defense creates a pilot program to cover certain childcare costs after a PCS.

Around the Air Force: Defining Units of Action, SECDEF’s well-being initiatives, B-21 Raider update
October 4, 2024 — In this week’s look around the Air Force, the DAF further defines the evolution of wings into Units of Action, the SecDef's announces seven new well-being initiatives for military families, and an update on the Air Force’s newest bomber: the B-21 Raider... MORE

In this week’s look around the Air Force, the Department of the Air Force further defines the evolution of wings into Units of Action, the Secretary of Defense announces seven new well-being initiatives for military members and their families, and an update on the Air Force’s newest bomber: the B-21 Raider. (Hosted by Airman 1st Class Phil Edwards)

DAF provides B-21 Raider program updates
September 23, 2024 — The B-21 Raider will incrementally replace the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers to become the backbone of the Air Force’s flexible global strike capability... MORE

A B-21 Raider conducts flight testing, which includes ground testing, taxiing, and flying operations, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The B-21 will be the backbone of the service’s future bomber force, and will possess the range, access and payload to penetrate the most highly-contested threat environments and hold any target around the globe at risk. The bomber platform is being developed through the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, which utilizes streamlined methods to develop, produce and field critical combat capabilities. (Courtesy photo)

Brown’s tenure as CSAF leaves lasting imprint on the service, its evolution
September 29, 2023 — As Gen. CQ Brown Jr. closes out his three-year tenure as the Air Force’s highest-ranking officer and braces for a new, even more challenging assignment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... MORE

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. make remarks before presenting the Operation Homefront Military Child of the Year Award to Air Force recipient Louis Geer during a ceremony in Arlington, Va., April 13, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Eric Dietrich)

B-21 bomber to be unveiled Dec. 2
October 21, 2022 — The Air Force confirmed Oct. 20 it plans to reveal the B-21 Raider Dec. 2 during an unveiling ceremony hosted and sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Corporation at its production facilities in Palmdale, California... MORE

AF Secretary highlights space, modernization, alliances, people as pressing priorities
February 28, 2020 — Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett said Feb. 27 that successfully launching the Space Force while also modernizing the Air Force, strengthening ties with allies and partners and ensuring a culture of trust for Airmen and their families are the priorities that will drive the service into a successful future... MORE

Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett delivers remarks during the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 27, 2020. The three-day event is a professional development forum that offers the opportunity for Department of Defense personnel to participate in forums, speeches, seminars and workshops with defense industry professionals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wayne Clark)

Disbrow delivers State of the AF
March 3, 2017 — Acting Secretary of the Air Force Lisa S. Disbrow addressed current and future issues, and talked about some of the occasions the Air Force has to look forward to in 2017 during the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida, March 3. ... MORE

Acting Secretary of the Air Force Lisa S. Disbrow gives her "State of the Air Force" keynote at the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium March 3, 2017, in Orlando, Fla. She spoke about the need to invest in Airmen, technology, space and acquisition, and enlist the help of industry to reach this goal. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)