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Lawmaker: Air Force wasted $500 million on weather satellite
A top U.S. lawmaker slammed the Air Force’s handling of its weather satellite program Thursday, saying it would have been easier for the government to simply set the money on fire.
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Air Force says drone crash in Iraq was an accident
An MQ-1 Predator drone crashed Thursday in Iraq but was destroyed and is not in militant hands, the Air Force said in a news release Friday.
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USAF accidents spiked in 2015
According to a news release from the service, there were 19 Class A accidents in fiscal 2015, compared with seven in 2014. But on-duty fatalities decreased, dropping from 11 in 2014 to 10 in 2015.
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Air Force to trim civilian workforce in 2016
“In a continuing effort to meet Defense Department funding targets and rebalance the civilian workforce, some Air Force installations will implement civilian reduction in force authorities effective through April 4,” a Pentagon statement said.
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A-10 flights are fond memory for retiring Air National Guard director
Lt. Gen. Stanley Clarke retired Dec. 18 as the director of Air National Guard, saying the Air Force has given him “too many blessings to count.”
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Need to know, 2016: Air Force Space Command on the final frontier
Space may be the final frontier and it’s starting to get awfully crowded.
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Need to know, 2016: Bolstering Air Force’s cyber realm
2015 saw the government’s Office of Personnel Management get hacked — with fingers pointing at the Chinese — and the personal information of potentially millions of federal workers get stolen.
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Declassified: Report says Pentagon totally unprepared — for Y2K
Like most everyone else, Pentagon officials were nervous about how its computers would make the transition from 1999 to 2000.
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Two Guardsmen killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing to be named honorary OSI agents
The two New York Air National Guardsmen who died Dec. 21 in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan have been named honorary special agents for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the agency announced Monday.
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Need to know, 2016: More changes for RPA community
For the first time since World War II, the Air Force is set to get enlisted pilots.
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Lawmaker: Air Force wasted $500 million on weather satellite
A top U.S. lawmaker slammed the Air Force’s handling of its weather satellite program Thursday, saying it would have been easier for the government to simply set the money on fire.
-
Air Force says drone crash in Iraq was an accident
An MQ-1 Predator drone crashed Thursday in Iraq but was destroyed and is not in militant hands, the Air Force said in a news release Friday.
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USAF accidents spiked in 2015
According to a news release from the service, there were 19 Class A accidents in fiscal 2015, compared with seven in 2014. But on-duty fatalities decreased, dropping from 11 in 2014 to 10 in 2015.
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Air Force to trim civilian workforce in 2016
“In a continuing effort to meet Defense Department funding targets and rebalance the civilian workforce, some Air Force installations will implement civilian reduction in force authorities effective through April 4,” a Pentagon statement said.
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A-10 flights are fond memory for retiring Air National Guard director
Lt. Gen. Stanley Clarke retired Dec. 18 as the director of Air National Guard, saying the Air Force has given him “too many blessings to count.”
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Need to know, 2016: Air Force Space Command on the final frontier
Space may be the final frontier and it’s starting to get awfully crowded.
-
Need to know, 2016: Bolstering Air Force’s cyber realm
2015 saw the government’s Office of Personnel Management get hacked — with fingers pointing at the Chinese — and the personal information of potentially millions of federal workers get stolen.
-
Declassified: Report says Pentagon totally unprepared — for Y2K
Like most everyone else, Pentagon officials were nervous about how its computers would make the transition from 1999 to 2000.
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Two Guardsmen killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing to be named honorary OSI agents
The two New York Air National Guardsmen who died Dec. 21 in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan have been named honorary special agents for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the agency announced Monday.
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Need to know, 2016: More changes for RPA community
For the first time since World War II, the Air Force is set to get enlisted pilots.
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Lawmaker: Air Force wasted $500 million on weather satellite
A top U.S. lawmaker slammed the Air Force’s handling of its weather satellite program Thursday, saying it would have been easier for the government to simply set the money on fire.
-
Air Force says drone crash in Iraq was an accident
An MQ-1 Predator drone crashed Thursday in Iraq but was destroyed and is not in militant hands, the Air Force said in a news release Friday.
-
USAF accidents spiked in 2015
According to a news release from the service, there were 19 Class A accidents in fiscal 2015, compared with seven in 2014. But on-duty fatalities decreased, dropping from 11 in 2014 to 10 in 2015.
-
Air Force to trim civilian workforce in 2016
“In a continuing effort to meet Defense Department funding targets and rebalance the civilian workforce, some Air Force installations will implement civilian reduction in force authorities effective through April 4,” a Pentagon statement said.
-
A-10 flights are fond memory for retiring Air National Guard director
Lt. Gen. Stanley Clarke retired Dec. 18 as the director of Air National Guard, saying the Air Force has given him “too many blessings to count.”
-
Need to know, 2016: Air Force Space Command on the final frontier
Space may be the final frontier and it’s starting to get awfully crowded.
-
Need to know, 2016: Bolstering Air Force’s cyber realm
2015 saw the government’s Office of Personnel Management get hacked — with fingers pointing at the Chinese — and the personal information of potentially millions of federal workers get stolen.
-
Declassified: Report says Pentagon totally unprepared — for Y2K
Like most everyone else, Pentagon officials were nervous about how its computers would make the transition from 1999 to 2000.
-
Two Guardsmen killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing to be named honorary OSI agents
The two New York Air National Guardsmen who died Dec. 21 in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan have been named honorary special agents for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the agency announced Monday.
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Need to know, 2016: More changes for RPA community
For the first time since World War II, the Air Force is set to get enlisted pilots.













