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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.
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.
Winslow Wheeler is the director at the Straus Military Reform Project for the Center for Defense Information.
Federal Times reports The scrap metal has been saved up for more than 15 years at Thule Air Base, Greenland.
Boeing has received a $12 billion dollar contract to keep the Defense Department\'s C-17 Globemaster transport planes flying
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The goal is to transition the airspace back to Iraqi control before the last plane carrying Americans takes off.
The Air Force says it is nearly ready to turn air traffic control in Iraq over to Iraqis as part of Operation New Dawn.
The Air Force is planning to make payments to civilian employees to encourage them to leave the federal payroll, in addition to offers of early retirement. The service is trying to get to the level of civilian employment authorized under DoD\'s civilian hiring freeze, which mandates the department maintain its non-uniformed workforce at fiscal 2010 levels.
The aircraft has been grounded since May because of reports of a bad oxygen system.
The service no can longer pump money into ambitions that don\'t offer any immediate prospect of payoff, especially if those projects don\'t promise to deliver something the Air Force truly needs, the service\'s top officer said Tuesday.
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said Monday there are certain capabilities the service must keep whole as it navigates the current budget situation. He did not offer clues as to what the service would be willing to give up.
Under the deal\'s terms, Lockheed will support the integration of software and components for the Air Force\'s combat support automated information systems.
Panetta says the attacks a decade ago have in some ways strengthened the United States at home and abroad.
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