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11/28/2025

The service declined to identify which companies won initial contracts due to “enhanced security measures.”
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-first-contracts-golden-dome-space-based-interceptors/

11/26/2025

In recent years, wargames have started to migrate to the digital realm, coinciding with a push to increase and improve wargaming that started in 2015 under then-deputy secretary of defense Robert Work.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-wants-to-transform-its-wargames-with-ai/

11/26/2025

The B-52s with the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron flew with NATO allies over Europe—a regular feature of Bomber Task Forces—but also spent time flying over southwest Asia and northwest Africa.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-b-52-bombers-spain-middle-east-africa/

11/26/2025

Fighters of the 388th Fighter Wing based out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah, “paved the way” for the flight of seven B-2s that dropped 14 GBU-57 bunker busters that penetrated the hardened, deeply buried targets in Iran.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-sead-role-f-35s-midnight-hammer/

11/26/2025

“These rapid advances in space pose an escalating threat to U.S. national security, intensify U.S.-China strategic competition for international partnerships, and undermine the ability of U.S. commercial firms to compete internationally,” the report states.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/report-space-force-funding-training-counter-china/

11/26/2025

As the Deputy Director of the NRO and Commander of the Space Force Element to the NRO, Maj Gen Christopher Povak serves two vital roles in securing access to vital space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data. Join the Mitchell Institute’s discussion with Gen Povak for an informative look at dramatic transformation occurring within the NRO.
MORE: https://www.mitchellaerospacepower.org/events/maj-gen-chris-povak/

11/25/2025

The Yonhap news agency and Chosun Daily newspaper reported that the MQ-9 crashed into the waters of the Yellow Sea. In a statement, the wing said the drone “was involved in an incident while performing a routine mission.”
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/mq-9-goes-down-off-the-coast-of-south-korea/

11/25/2025

A spokesperson for U.S. Southern Command declined to comment on operational matters. But officials have confirmed similar previous flights, and the aircraft flew with its transponder on just off the Venezuelan coast.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/b-52-returns-to-caribbean-second-mission-four-days/

11/25/2025

The Space Force has seen an outsized impact from the Trump administration’s push to reduce the size of the federal workforce through mandatory civilian reductions and deferred resignation and retirement programs that incentivized early separation.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/purdy-space-force-needs-more-acquisition-experts-to-implement-reforms/

11/25/2025

President Donald Trump’s decision in September to move SPACECOM’s headquarters to Huntsville, Ala., follows years of back-and-forth over where to permanently locate the combatant command’s central hub, which is charged with operating the Defense Department’s space capabilities.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/space-command-creates-task-force-voyager-coordinate-hq-move/

11/24/2025

“Current recapitalization projections require” that the C-5 and C-17 be kept viable for the C-5M “until 2045 and C-17A viability through 2075." —Brig. Gen. David A. Fazenbaker, AMC director of strategy, plans, requirements and programs.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/next-gen-usaf-airlifter-2038-c-17-fly-50-years/

11/24/2025

The Air Force Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems branch is now looking for defense firms that can produce ground-based systems for using APKWS rockets against small Group 1 drones up to larger Group 3 systems.
MORE: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-guided-rockets-system-ground-based-counter-drone-ops/
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