Air Force
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Retired general spent 34 years in the Army. He will be in charge of a review to evaluate the changes made to the mortuary procedures.
November 23, 2011 -
Schriever Air Force Base spokeswoman Jennifer Thibault says the building was evacuated after the standoff began Monday. She says no shots were fired and no one was injured.
November 21, 2011 -
The hospital is a merger of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. The Army moved patients from the Washington facility to the Bethesda campus and a new hospital at Fort Belvoir in Northern Virginia.
November 11, 2011 -
For the first time in the memory of any currently-serving member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified at a single hearing Thursday. Their message: Don\'t add a seventh.
November 11, 2011 -
The new leader of the Air Force\'s major information technology acquisition command said the service still is operating in a mode that lets individual programs design and build their own IT infrastructure.
November 10, 2011 -
The Defense Department needs fast, reliable, resilient satellite networking capabilities across the globe. It\'s wrestling with how to provide those capabilities in the face of dropping budgets.
November 09, 2011 -
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said he will recommend to Congress that the chief of the National Guard bureau not become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He announced the decision ahead of expected Congressional testimony later this week so service members would hear it from him first, before hearing it on the news.
November 08, 2011 -
Air Force subtracts 9,000 managerial jobs, while adding 5,900 positions in areas it considers key to its mission.
November 03, 2011 -
More than 400 people must leave the Air Force by early 2012, as part of an initiative to trim the military branch\'s officer cadre. Air Force leaders are also targeting enlisted service members.
November 01, 2011 -
The Air Force, Navy and Lockheed Martin are pushing for training to begin on the new F-35 Joint Fight Strike Fighter, despite recommendations to postpone training by 10 months.
November 01, 2011 -
The companies must plead their case before the Air Force\'s debarring official. In the meantime, they cannot obtain new contracts or subcontracts.
October 31, 2011 -
The Air Force intends to migrate most of its localized and non-standardized IT networks into a single system known as AFNET by the end of next year. The migration should enable enterprise services across the Air Force, but who will host and operate those services over the long term remains undecided.
October 31, 2011 -
The Air Force wants to fulfill half of its U.S.-based jet fuel needs with alternative fuels by 2016 and expects to be ready for that target ahead of time. But, with the view that it is a consumer, not a producer of energy, the service says it doesn\'t intend to play a direct role in helping to develop biofuel technologies.
October 27, 2011 -
For a progress report on how the military is combating the cyber threat and a look at the near term future, officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force cyber commands joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris for a special Federal News Radio panel discussion.
October 26, 2011 -
Winslow Wheeler is the director at the Straus Military Reform Project for the Center for Defense Information.
October 20, 2011
