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Wilsbach formally installed as 24th Air Force Chief of Staff
November 19, 2025 — Gen. Ken Wilsbach was formally installed as the Department of the Air Force's highest ranking military leader Nov. 18...

Air Force Chief of Staff announces retirement
August 19, 2025 — The 23rd U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin announced plans to retire effective on or about Nov. 1, 2025...

Around the Air Force: Funding the force, optimizing capabilities, defending the homeland
July 3, 2025 — In this week’s look Around the Air Force, Department of the Air Force leaders testify before a Senate defense subcommittee on the 2026 fiscal year budget, prioritizing defending the homeland and bolstering defenses in the Indo-Pacific region. ...

Around the Air Force: More Air Force, Space Force priorities, flexible spending accounts
March 14, 2025 — In this week’s look Around the Air Force, Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David Allvin describes his strategy for defending the homeland and meeting the nation’s security priorities, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman outlines the USSF’s path to ensure space superiority, and enrollment opens for a new Health Care FSA benefit...

Air Force provides airlift support for NORTHCOM border mission
January 31, 2025 — This effort aims to enhance security and logistical capabilities as border enforcement agencies manage evolving challenges to protect the sovereignty of the United States...

Department of the Air Force bids farewell to SECAF 26
January 17, 2025 — Frank Kendall departed the Pentagon for the last time as the 26th secretary of the Air Force...

Around the Air Force: Letter to Airmen, INDOPACOM Trip, and Enlisted Development and Education
November 1, 2024 — In this week’s look around the Air Force, Air Force Chief of provides updates in his latest letter to Airmen, the CSAF and CMSAF visit Indo-Pacific allies and leaders, and the DAF introduces a new enlisted development and education policy...

Allvin lauds Airmen for embracing, pushing forward efforts to reoptimize the force
September 17, 2024 — Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin provided his keynote address at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept. 16...

Air Force activates provisional Integrated Capabilities Command
September 16, 2024 — In provisional status, the Integrated Capabilities Command (Provisional) will immediately begin leading Air Force modernization prioritization efforts across several key investment areas, while continuing to develop the framework for the permanent ICC...

Allvin: ‘One Air Force’ needed to address today’s evolving security landscape
August 19, 2024 — During a speaking engagement, CSAF emphasized the Air Force must continue evolving into a highly integrated and lethal “one Air Force” if it is to successfully compete, deter, and win in today’s strategic environment...

Allvin calls for ‘Collective Agility’ in response to evolving strategic environment
July 18, 2024 — U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin emphasized the importance of “Collective Agility” during a keynote address on the air and space defense industry at the Global Air and Space Chiefs’ Conference in London on July 18...

Allvin adds details, articulates his ‘nonstop’ commitment to ‘reoptimize’
June 18, 2024 — Speaking first at an Air & Space Warfighters in Action session, the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff said the Air Force has made real and tangible progress instituting elements of a broad strategy to evolve how the Air Force develops people, generates readiness, projects power, and develops integrated capabilities...

Kendall, Allvin, Saltzman urge modernization while warning Senate of delayed budgets
April 10, 2024 — Kendall, Allvin and Saltzman’s official purpose during the hearing was to explain the department’s $217.5 billion budget request for the 2025 fiscal year which begins Oct. 1...

Flosi takes his place as the 20th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
March 11, 2024 — Chief Master Sgt. David A. Flosi was formally installed on March 8 as the 20th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force...

Around the Air Force: Airmen and Guardians in the fight, cyber and IT warrant officers
February 23, 2024 — This week's look Around the Air Force highlights the Department's senior enlisted advisors plans to empower and equip Airmen and Guardians to prepare for Great Power Competition, and the Air Force reintroducing the rank of warrant officer for information technology and cyber career fields...

DAF leaders lock arms, present plan to reoptimize Air Force, Space Force
February 13, 2024 — DAF leaders outlined 24 specific decisions during a panel discussion at the AFA Warfare Symposium. The decisions will position the services to better confront China and maintain the hard-won superiority in air and space...

Chief Master Sgt. David A. Flosi named 20th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
December 11, 2023 — Chief Master Sgt. David A. Flosi was selected to be the 20th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force...

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...

Around the Air Force: CSAF Nomination, Wedgetail Agreement, Leadership Titles Change
August 4, 2023 — In this week’s look around the Air Force, VCSAF Gen. David Allvin is nominated to be the 23rd CSAF, three country’s Air Forces agree to develop the Wedgetail early warning and control aircraft, and Air Force vice commanders become deputy commanders. ...

Gen. David W. Allvin nominated to be next Air Force Chief of Staff
July 27, 2023 — Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin, a command pilot with joint planning and strategy expertise, has been nominated as the Air Force’s 23rd Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III announced July 26...