Elon Musk-led SpaceX is formally challenging the U.S. Air Force’s decision last year to award a round of rocket development contracts to competitors, arguing that the Hawthorne firm’s entire proposal was incorrectly deemed the one with “highest risk.”

The U.S. military has finally completed runway work at a new air base in Agadez, Niger, but Air Force officials said Wednesday it will still be several months before flight operations can begin at what is anticipated to be a major intelligence gathering hub in western Africa.

The arrest was related to an incident in which lasers were pointed at two C-130J Super Hercules planes in February, according to officials.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he would nominate Barbara Barrett, a former ambassador to Finland and astronaut, to be the next secretary of the Air Force, replacing Heather Wilson who is slated to leave that post at the end of this month.

U.S. military officials say four Russian bombers and two fighter jets were intercepted off Alaska’s western coast Monday by U.S. aircraft but had not entered U.S. or Canadian airspace.

The jump was part of an event sponsored by the nearby town of Avranches, which was liberated by U.S. forces in 1944.

The University of Florida has partnered with the United States Air Force to create a center to better fortify autonomous vehicles against cyber attacks.

The Standard-Examiner reports a Vietnam era C-130 cargo plane has been converted into a classroom for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math students and attached to a museum at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden. Ogden is about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City.

Each year, every Aerial Port Squadron across the Air Force conducts a run to memorialize all transportation airmen, officers, and civilians lost over the past year.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is suing the federal government again. But this time, it wants its protest of a government contract to stay under seal, meaning its allegations would not become public.

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Debbie Naguy, Product Support Engineering Division chief at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, said the big question Air Force and university researchers want to answer to how to keep old planes flying. UD's River campus – relatively private and secure – is a good place to do that.

Maj. Travis J. Burns is accused of rape, rape of a child and three counts of sexual abuse of a child, the Air Force Academy said. He will appear in military court Monday for an Article 32 hearing.

A B-52H bomber built in the early 1960s and put into retirement in an U.S. Air Force "boneyard" in the Arizona desert over 10 years ago is returning to service.

NATO jets were scrambled twice in two days to intercept Russian aircraft flying along the Baltic coastline toward Moscow’s military hub in Kaliningrad, the British Defense Ministry said Thursday.

In true Florida fashion, another gator crawled its way into a surprising spot. This time, onto the flight line at MacDill Air Force Base.

Matthew P. Donovan, the under secretary of the Air Force, will become acting secretary of the service on June 1, after Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson resigns her position, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.

The Air Force confirmed it was sticking to a previously released shortlist of six bases, which outlines the locations that are still in the running to become the headquarters for U.S. Space Command.

The west side of Yokota Air Base was locked down for about an hour on Tuesday morning after reports of shots fired.

Nearly 75 years ago, 160,000 Allied troops helped bend the arc of history by landing in Normandy, the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany. Today, new technology at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is giving visitors an idea of what D-Day was like.

The mission was the first for the unit since it was deployed to the Persian Gulf last week, in response to what U.S. officials have described as indications of Iranian threats against U.S. forces in Iraq, Syria and at sea.

It’s not often highlighted in blockbuster movies or best-selling books but if it weren’t for the Army Air Force’s role, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France might not be the success it’s touted as 75 years later.

The Air Force plans to transfer a unit that evaluates bombs and other weapons to Hill Air Force Base in Utah from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

About 160 military police (MPs) and civilian federal officers — jointly called security forces — have jurisdiction not just over airmen, but all of the approximately 7,500 people who live and work at Ellsworth and any visitors.

Eglin Air Force Base is the Air Force's preferred alternative for an additional F-35A training squadron, a move that could bring as many as 500 new airmen to the installation.

High concentrations of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, were found during two underground-water surveys in June and July, according to an assessment released April 26 by the Okinawa Prefectural Enterprise Bureau.

A short U.S. Air Force deployment to Romania is doubling the number of F-16 fighter jets in the country, ahead of Romanian plans to purchase more of the U.S.-made aircraft.

The Air Force in March announced that the Hampton installation was its preferred location of the F-22 Formal Training Unit that had been based at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, pending an environmental impact study.

Wendi Mae Davidson pleaded no contest in October 2006 to charges that she poisoned her husband of four months on Jan. 15, 2005, with drugs used to euthanize animals, weighed his body down with car parts and cinder blocks, and dumped it in a Texas pond

A former Air Force officer’s online conversations about sexually abusing young children were not constitutionally protected, the military’s highest court has ruled, as it affirmed his conviction for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

A Minutemen 3 missile roared out of a silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:40 a.m. Thursday, carrying a test reentry vehicle.

Ignacio Tepetate Perez, who is stationed at Robins Air Force Base, has been charged with vehicular homicide in the March 2019 death of an elderly motorist.

Emergency procedures were initiated at about 5 p.m. after someone at the Yokota Air Base post office observed suspicious markings on a package, causing the immediate area to be cordoned off for several hours.

Vandenberg just announced it will conduct another Minuteman III intercontinental missile test this week on Thursday, between 12:39 a.m. and 6:39 a.m.

Ahead of his planned campaign stop on Wednesday, President Trump will arrive at Tyndall Air Force Base, where Air Force One will land, a White House official confirmed. Trump will receive an update on ongoing recovery efforts at the base.

During the tests at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., the laser system engaged and shot down multiple air-launched missiles in flight.

His service as an ace for the Flying Tigers in Burma and China buried by time, his Missoula ties long forgotten, Percy Bartelt received his due last weekend in North Dakota.

Former Air Force Lt. Col. Willie Newson is accused of trying to meet a 14-year-old on a dating app, but the teen was actually an undercover officer for the FBI's Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force.

Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian learned a lesson he thinks will serve him well as the new commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa: Taking the time to get to know his coalition counterparts makes a huge difference.

The 8th Fighter Wing commander suspended all military and commercial flights at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, for a full day starting 9 a.m. Wednesday until the base civil engineer squadron could repair a sinkhole in the runway.

Those deployed to Bagram Air Field and Al Udeid Air Base had been resigned to not seeing the megahit until returning to America, as previous announcements stated there were no plans to screen “Avengers: Endgame” downrange.

Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters assumed command Thursday of U.S. troops in Europe, where the military has expanded its mission in recent years to counter a more aggressive Russia.

The Officer Training School-Accelerated Commissioning Program, a beta test at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., will begin in August, compressing the normal 40-day course to two weeks.

This month’s launch is part of the Air Force’s Rapid Agile Launch Initiative to procure small, commercial launch vehicles. The service is interested in commercial launch services because they’re cheaper and more convenient than traditional launches

The Resilient Typhoon exercise included drills on the islands of Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Marianas — two areas devastated by a super typhoon last fall.

Initial indications show the pilot and co-pilot safely ejected before the T-6 Texan II plane from Sheppard Air Force Base went down near Lake Waurika just across the state line in Oklahoma.

Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian assumed command of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa from Gen. Tod D. Wolters at a ceremony presided over by some of the military’s top commanders, including Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein.

The “Buzzards” six-month deployment was in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and NATO’s Resolute Support mission.

The service's first combat use of the F-35A Lightning II was an airstrike conducted deep in Iraq’s Hamrin Mountains, according to U.S. Air Forces Central Command.

Lawmakers returned to Congress this week to face the Marine Corps, which needs additional funding immediately, and the Air Force, which declared no new construction projects at Tyndall Air Force Base will happen without supplemental funding.

Brig. Gen. Kristin Goodwin's firing comes just weeks before she was slated to leave her position in a regular rotation of leadership. She was expected to transfer to the Pentagon and serve as the director of current operations for the Air Force deputy chief of staff.

The illegal move eventually ended up with Capt. John S. Lappo being accused of violating Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice at general court-martial.

As it conducts this week’s drills, the Ohio base will try to avoid the chaos that ensued last August when a couple of training exercises went awry.

Innovative small businesses are finding it easier to get past the fence surrounding Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, say those charged with connecting the Air Force to those businesses.

The lawsuit claims that the project would "authorize thousands of annual overflights of F-15 military jets, coupled with on-the-ground troop activity within the cities, occurring day and night for up to 160 days per year."

President Donald Trump will speak at an Air Force Academy commencement May 30, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Thursday.

After months of site preparation, Balfour Beatty Communities LLC, the civilian landlord for Tyndall housing, is preparing a reconstruction program to rebuild more than 350 other storm-damaged housing units between now and 2022-23.

Kathleen Sanchez is worried about PFAS in the drinking water at her home across Van Etten Lake from the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, which is bleeding the toxic fluorochemicals into the groundwater.

Showing solidarity with college students worldwide on a day meant to raise awareness of sexual assault, 4,000 Air Force Academy cadets wore jeans Wednesday, an unprecedented sight on a military campus.

Capt. Paul Sikkema described his genitals, expressed his desire to perform sexual acts with an undercover officer and attempted to persuade the officer who he believed to be a 14-year-old girl to meet him, according to arrest documents.

The incident, which occurred at 6:17 a.m. local time June 11 approximately 70 miles south of Kadena Air Base during a simulated dogfight, left an Air Force pilot in serious condition and led to a temporary pause in training.

Originally constructed by the U.S. Air Force as Larson Air Force Base in the late 1940s, the air base in Moses Lake, Wash., became a Strategic Air Command base in 1960, hosting long-range B-52s and KC-135 tankers until its closure in 1966.

While Kentucky Air National Guard Capt. Nathan Tingle typically spends a week in October rucking from Louisville to Morehead in memory of a friend killed in Afghanistan in 2010, this year he will swim in Cave Run Lake, also raising money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.

When wearing the Operational Camouflage Pattern combat uniforms, which the service adopted in October, airmen are now to place their squadrons’ patches on the right sleeve along with the U.S. flag and their higher headquarters patches on the left sleeve.

Airmen should soon have fewer unnecessary boxes to check and conflicting rules to mull over as the Air Force nears completion of an effort to streamline instructions across the service.

Rescue workers freed a 17-month-old American boy after he became stuck in a deep shaft for three hours in a village near Ramstein Air Base.

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With a crew of eight working on a Super Hercules — which is more than 112 feet long and 38 feet tall with a 132-foot wingspan — wetting, soaping, scrubbing and rinsing takes about eight hours.

The United States and South Korea have launched joint air force drills, officials said Tuesday, as the allies maintain efforts to keep military exercises low-key amid nuclear talks with the North.

Even though a budget containing a fresh order of F-15s tricked out with modern defense, radar and operating systems has yet to make it through Congress, Boeing is readying itself and a production line that employs some 1,100 people.

Federal, state and local leaders brought improvements that included a new wastewater treatment plant, a financial services center, a drone unit, an expanded training airspace and safer accident potential zones to make Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., as closure-proof as possible.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Mark Correll told Albuquerque water officials that the Air Force remained committed “to make sure no one in this city or on Kirtland Air Force Base will drink water that is EDB (ethylene dibromide) contaminated.”

At 6:07 p.m. Saturday, NORAD directed an F-16 and a helicopter to investigate when a private, single-engine aircraft entered airspace that is restricted when President Donald Trump visits Palm Beach.

Ex-airmen from Barksdale Air Force Base create fix-it-yourself garage for motorcycle enthusiasts.

The mortuary at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, tucked away on a side street near the base bakery, is a way station for servicemembers who sacrificed their lives for their country in Asia.

The Japanese government has suggested that allowing civilian planes to land at Yokota, home of U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force, could help increase the number of flights arriving during the games.

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This gray-and white cat was recruited for her hunting skills and quickly made her mark on an Honor Guard unit.

Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, said the new Air Force “Science and Technology Strategy” has the capacity to create powerful new technologies for the service.

About 600 soldiers and airmen live and labor on the relatively remote installation that offers few of the amenities servicemembers are used to — but to those stationed at Soto Cano, the base offers a deployment unlike any other.

Senior Airman Zachary Lamont Ransom was taken into custody at about 4:45 a.m. Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving after his vehicle rear-ended a motorcycle.

The Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists group first identified Master Sgt. Cory Reeves as a member of the Colorado branch of Identity Evropa earlier this month. Cheri Dragos-Pritchard, a base spokeswoman, confirmed officials there knew of the allegations and are investigating Reeves's ties.

The unnamed airman departed Okinawa on April 8 and has not yet returned to Japan. He is considered neither armed nor dangerous.

Jeans, long forbidden for cadets on duty, will be allowed by Lt. Gen Jay Silveria, who wants cadets to consider the toll of sexual attacks after a Pentagon report in January found that more women at the school faced unwanted sexual contact but fewer were reporting it.

James Elsner, who recently turned 100, flew a Curtis P-40 Warhawk while defending Attu after it was reclaimed from Japanese forces in 1943.

Col. Jay Johnson, vice commander of the 71st Flying Training Wing, said Special Olympics is an invaluable opportunity to grow Team Vance’s bonds with the community and to teach selfless service to young airmen.

“D-Day: Freedom From Above” will premiere May 13 at the museum in Dayton, Ohio. The exhibit will focus on Sainte-Mere-Eglise, the first French town to be liberated, and the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division, which fought there.

Ryan Watson who has served as an acquisitions officer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will give his hometown Atlanta Falcons the first crack at his services. If the defensive end/outside linebacker doesn't sign he will then go to Detroit on Wednesday for a workout with the Lions

Boeing faces a well-known crisis with the 737 MAX, but a second challenge is also confronting the company: its new tanker for the U.S. Air Force.

Col. Victor Sikora was relieved from his position at the 144th Fighter Wing after engaging in “conduct unbecoming of an officer” by addressing a gathering of Guard members in a manner some found intimidating and humiliating.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force on Friday identified the pilot missing since his stealth fighter plunged Tuesday into the Pacific Ocean as Maj. Akinori Hosomi.

U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets from Carrier Air Wing 5 will perform an air demonstration at the 43rd annual Friendship Day on May 5, a first since the wing re-located here last year.

The damaged runway was just one of many repairs underway as the southeastern Nebraska base is still assessing damage caused by flooding that began March 15 when snowmelt overwhelmed the banks of the Missouri River.

The two-year project by Korean contractors will bring the main access control point, constructed over three decades ago, up to standards for anti-terrorism force protection implemented after 9/11.

The Air Force wants some of its best officers to spend time recruiting or instructing future officers in ROTC and entrance training, and it is offering incentives designed to make such duties more attractive, service officials announced Thursday.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Edward Luckey, 88, of San Antonio, Texas, celebrated the 62nd anniversary of his landing in a wheat field with family and friends and reflected on his 22-year career in the Air Force.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is introducing legislation with Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., that seeks to create a national database for servicemembers and veterans who have experienced health problems that possibly are connected to exposure to chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

The George and Barbara Bush Foundation has asked that an Air Force One plane set for retirement in 2025 be permanently exhibited at the late president’s museum at Texas A&M University. If approved, the Boeing VC-25A would be on permanent loan from the U.S. Air Force.