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11/07/2025

It was as Defense Secretary from 1989-1993 that Cheney left a lasting thumbprint on the U.S. Air Force.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/dick-cheney-legacy-air-force/

11/07/2025

Changes of command can be splashy affairs, livestreamed on social media with plenty of dignitaries in attendance. But in keeping with the Pentagon’s shutdown protocols, these recent changes went largely unpublicized outside of a few short press releases.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/three-air-force-majcoms-get-new-leaders/

11/07/2025

The Mitchell Institute report, written by Senior Resident Fellow for Space Studies Charles Galbreath, argues that crafting a strategy for dynamic space operations is key to the Space Force’s ability to move and operate freely in the domain and urges the service to act quickly to determine its next steps.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/new-report-space-force-decisive-steps-dynamic-operations/

11/07/2025

The commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe has long been one of the most prestigious and prominent jobs in the Air Force.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/new-3-star-usafe-nato-air-boss-takes-over-amid-russian-threats/

11/06/2025

The document, obtained by Air & Space Forces Magazine, links the Defense Department’s “unacceptably slow acquisition fielding timelines” to three primary causes:

✅ Lack of accountability and flexibility among acquisition leaders
✅ Misaligned performance incentives for industry
✅ Unwillingness to take advantage of commercial or private sector investment, which the memo argues is key to delivering systems quickly and at scale.

MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/draft-memo-first-look-pentagon-acquisition-reforms/

11/06/2025

Wolfe has been a trusted advisor to the new Chief, having served as his enlisted advisor during his last two command tours at Air Combat Command and Pacific Air Forces.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/new-cmsaf-david-wolfe/

11/06/2025

No date of the second aircraft’s first flight was released. The new information comes just a few days after Anduril Industries achieved the first flight of its CCA, the YFQ-44A.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/general-atomics-flies-second-cca-ground-attack-gambit/
General Atomics Anduril Industries

11/05/2025

The updated guidance reverses the relaxed mustache standards the Air Force approved in 2022. The new guidance also takes a slightly stricter stance on sideburns.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-sets-new-mustache-standard/

11/05/2025

The new Chief’s first missive is a single page, half as long as Allvin’s “Follow Through” message sent to the force when he took over, and a fraction of Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.’s “Accelerate Change or Lose” white paper.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/wilsbachs-1st-call-to-airmen-at-our-core-we-fly-and-fix-aircraft/

11/05/2025

Charts included in a new Air Force report show the service plans to carry 42 F-15C/Ds as part of its combat-coded total aircraft inventory through 2028, and the last 21 through 2030, at which point the original Eagle will be thoroughly retired.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/platinum-f-15c-d-eagles-homeland-defense/

11/05/2025

While industry waits for more details from the government, companies large and small aren’t waiting to invest their own funds to scale existing technology they think could serve Golden Dome and plan demonstrations meant to validate new capabilities.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/space-firms-golden-dome-requirements-dual-use-tech/

11/04/2025

Seasoned military spouses offering advice on social media sites stress that military families need to have three months of savings set aside and a stocked pantry since shutdowns are becoming more and more of a reality of military life.

Not every family can manage that, though.

MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/military-families-furloughed-spouses-shutdown/

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