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Air Force

Air Force Needs To Think About More Resilient Space Architectures, Fanning Says

Friday, November 15th, 2013

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The Air Force needs to think of ways that don’t necessarily involve offensive capability to protect its space assets as space becomes increasingly congested, the service’s top civilian said yesterday. “We have to think about how we protect what we have up there, which doesn’t have to mean some offensive capability,” Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning said yesterday at the Defense One summit in Washington. “It just means an architecture that is harder for an adversary to take out…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]