David Goldfein
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Just days before the expiration of the latest continuing resolution, Navy officials say the last several years of budgeting-by-CR have already wasted $4 billion.
December 05, 2017 -
The Air Force is still playing catch up in its pilot pipeline despite adding incentive benefits.
September 21, 2017 -
The Air Force chief of staff says he's giving local commanders more discretion on crew resting periods. The broader point, he says, is to give wings and squadrons authority to run their missions without interference from headquarters.
September 20, 2017 -
The Air Force is changing its military education for enlisted airmen to make classes more flexible about their lives.
July 25, 2017 -
The Navy announced its bonus reenlistment numbers for pilots in 2018. Meanwhile, Congress is trying to give more money to the Air Force to retain pilots.
July 10, 2017 -
The Navy has removed almost all of its departmentwide computer-based training requirements for both sailors and civilians, in favor of more local control by commands. The Air Force has cut its servicewide online training demands in half, with more reductions possibly on the way.
June 26, 2017 -
Heather Wilson, the newly-confirmed Secretary of the Air Force, wants to know whether her service’s acquisition professionals are actually using legislative provisions meant to help the Pentagon speed up and simplify the acquisition process
June 07, 2017 -
The Air Force is getting about 5,000 visitors a day on its site created to aggregate ideas on how to better squadrons.
May 22, 2017 -
The Air Force is asking airmen to log in online to comment, share and vote on ideas that will better its squadron units. The crowdsourcing initiative is part of a larger push started by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein to fundamentally change the service.
May 15, 2017 -
Media reports suggesting that the Air Force might require some pilots to stay in uniform beyond their agreed-to separation dates are not true, said the service's top officer.
April 13, 2017 -
The Air Force is meeting with airline companies May 18th, but the service isn't expecting to solve the pilot shortage quickly.
April 07, 2017 -
The Air Force alone is dealing with a shortage of more than 600 pilots. The service is having trouble competing with airlines that can pay pilots more.
March 27, 2017 -
The Air Force is lowering its maintainer shortage, but still lacks experienced workers.
February 02, 2017 -
The Air Force will hire more people to take care of its weapons systems if it can get Congress to pay for more airmen.
January 18, 2017 -
After cutting burdensome training and duties, the Air Force is creating a board to review more issues in the future.
December 19, 2016