May 3, 2016 Global Market Growing for Miniature Drones The combat performance of the U.S. military’s small unmanned aircraft systems during the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has inspired international market interest in the technologies, Lockheed officials said. There continues to be strong interest from militaries around the world in small, hand-launched, high-endurance UAS with electro-optical/infrared imaging technology, Jay McConville, Lockheed’s director of […]
May 3, 2016 Fewer Than 10 Drone Pilots to Receive $1,500 Monthly Bonus This Year Fewer than 10 U.S. Air Force drone pilots are slated to receive this year a new $1,500 bonus designed to address a personnel shortage in the highly stressed workforce, an official said. The low number confirms what operators of the MQ-1 Predator and other remotely piloted aircraft suspected about the increased financial incentive — that […]
May 3, 2016 Fewer Than 10 Drone Pilots to Receive $1,500 Monthly Bonus This Year This year, less than 10 Air Force drone pilots will get a new bonus designed to fix a troop shortage in the high-stress job. ,This year, less than 10 Air Force drone pilots will get a new bonus designed to fix a troop shortage in the high-stress job. The low number confirms what drone pilots suspected -- that it would only target a select number of experienced airmen.
May 3, 2016 Military Service Academies See Decline in Sexual Assaults Sexual assaults at the three military academies have declined but officials expressed growing concern over retaliation for reporting sexual misconduct.
May 3, 2016 Air Force Releases Colonel, Major Promotion Lists The Air Force has selected 456 lieutenant colonels for promotion to colonel, and 2,126 captains for promotion to major.
May 3, 2016 Pentagon point man for fixing nuclear missile troubles fact-checks Washington talk of progress The Pentagon's point man for fixing what ails the nation's nuclear forces came to this remote air base to get a feel for nuclear missile duty in an inhospitable climate.
May 3, 2016 US Deploys A-10s to Europe Amid Debate to Arm Ukraine The U.S. has deployed a dozen Cold War-era A-10 attack aircraft to Europe amid the escalating assault in the Ukraine.,The U.S. military has deployed a dozen Cold War-era A-10 attack aircraft to Europe amid the escalating assault from pro-Russian separatists in the Ukraine, an official said. The aircraft on Monday departed Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona for Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.
May 3, 2016 CNO: Next-Generation Navy Fighter Might Not Need Stealth The Chief of Naval Operations said the next-generation Navy fighter being developed to replace the F/A-18 may be less stealthy than expected, shedding a bit of new detail upon a topic not discussed much by Navy developers. “You know that stealth may be over-rated,” Greenert said during a speed at the Office of Naval Research […]
May 3, 2016 Next Defense Secretary Open to Keeping A-10 in Air Force Ashton Carter agreed to hear arguments from JTACS for keeping the A-10 despite renewed efforts by the Air Force to retire it.
May 3, 2016 Support growing in Congress for assisting Jordan in fight against Islamic State militants Supporting is building in Congress for increased U.S. military assistance to Jordan in the wake of the murder by immolation of a Jordanian air force pilot by his Islamic State militant captors.