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US Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles may take over the signals-intelligence role currently being performed by the US Navy's EP-3 aircraft.

Results of a new study by the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency have revealed that U.S. Air Force (USAF) search and rescue should grow and not shrink as Defense Secretary, Robert Gates has suggested. The report is a big ray of hope for USAF personnel who constantly remain worried as to whether their missions will continue or be shut down.

Air Force statistics has revealed that US Air Force (USAF) air strikes in Afghanistan have decreased considerably following a new commander assuming position. The main aim in cutting down on air strikes was to reduce the increasing number of civilian casualties.

A joint Concept of Operations (CONOPS) is being drafted between the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) for medium-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This is putting to an end years of tension between the two.

The US senators from two states that produce C-17 cargo plans and jet engines have piloted an amendment through the Senate that permits the Air Force to buy 42 additional planes. The amendment, which just permits the Air Force to buy the extra C-17s, is attached to the Senate's $491 billion 2006 Defense Authorization Act.

Analysts say that the US Air Force is in the midst of one of its worst financial crisis due to a host of factors ranging from their equipments costs becoming costlier to a general slowdown in the world economy. The crisis could well prompt to lay-offs in the forces and top officials will soon have to chart out the right way to emerge out of this slump with their strength intact and while it is acknowledged that there are no instant solutions the changes must be started soon.

This article discusses the need of today's US forces to be lethal, survivable, and rapidly deployable.

The US Air Force is opposing the House of Representative's effort to reallocate control of the Airborne Laser (ABL) program to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO).

The Air Force seeks special approval and funding to accelerating a missile-warning satellite launch and purchase an additional Milstar 2 communications satellite. These additional expenses are due to the loss of two satellites at launch earlier in 1999.

The February 2010 airstrike that resulted in the death of 23 Afghan civilians has led the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to allow more imagery analysts to closely monitor battlefield radio communications. The USAF plans to achieve the compatibility between the Distributed Common Ground System sites.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) are busy trying to work out how the February cancellation of the Ares 1, could impact the costs of launching satellites. Early estimates reveal that the cost of cancellation of the Constellation program may result in a doubling of the price of rocket propulsion systems.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCom) have both finally settled on the kind of planned gunship that will look very much like AC-130 gunships that are in combat since the Vietnam War. The USAF from 2011 will begin procuring 16 new C-130Js that will later be turned over to a contractor for conversion into gunships fitted with sensors and ground attack weapons.

The U.S. military is looking to shape a joint concept of operations with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. Navy (USN) by ensuring more effective networking between the three. The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) can play a vital role as a catalyst in developing a new relationship between all the three armed forces.

The article discusses the Fighter Risk Reduction Program being developed at the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Research Lab for the F-16 flight control system to prevent F-16 crashes. Initial flight testing of the software has been successfully conducted and is expected to be installed in Block 40 and 50 F-16s starting from 2013.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems has been hired by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to study the possibility of integrating additional missile defense radars into its space surveillance network. The main aim is to get rid of the blind spots that the USAF network has in the southern hemisphere.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is helping and assisting the African pilots in different parts of Africa to get trained on how to pilot and conduct missions. The main aim is to train and prepare the African forces to respond to humanitarian disasters as well as peacekeeping missions.

Two of the main U.S. Air Force hubs at Kandahar and Bagram are being expanded by US forces to handle the increasing numbers of aircraft and personnel being deployed in operations in Afghanistan. The Air Force besides adding more buildings, is also replacing expeditionary structures with permanent ones.

U.S. Air Force engineers in Afghanistan, besides building bases for themselves are also building forward operating bases (FOBs) for the Army and Marines. Nearly 100 airmen are working on building more than 12 bases in the violent-ridden areas of Afghanistan.

The two U.S. bases, the Naval Pearl Harbor base and Hickam Air Force base are combining their services, offices and departments under one single hybrid entity - Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam by October 1, 2010. The Navy will be the lead agency in the merger and resources, property, personnel and authority will be transferred there.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) following the shutdown of the F-22 fighter program is now looking at a new fighter, a light attack/armed reconnaissance fighter for use in irregular warfare. The USAF is now looking for a new plane that will especially be useful for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The new U.S. Air Force (USAF) budget request, focusing on U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggestions, has focused on irregular warfare, The USAF is focusing on aircraft needed for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is laying more emphasis on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

The article discusses the benefits and advantages offered by the C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). Some of the exemplary features that the C-5M Super Galaxy offers include high acceleration, fuel savings and automatic engine controls besides others.

Col. Dusty Tyson, chief of the Air Force's space control division revealed that the U.S. Air Force is making attempts to predict space collisions through 'conjunction analysis' following the increasing incidence of satellite collisions in space. Collisions in space generate space debris that poses risks to other orbiting satellites.

The MC-12W reconnaissance aircraft, integrated into the U.S. Air Force fleet, is expected to be deployed in active service by the end of April 2009. The military version of the twin-propeller Beechcraft King Air-350 aircraft, the MC-12W will be used for reconnaissance and surveillance missions in Iraq and Afghanistan to support ground troops.

The focus of the second Pacific Vision (PV-2) operations undertaken by the U.S. Air Force and Navy that ended on October 31, 2008 is highlighted. The Pacific Vision is a new U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) that concentrates on war-gaming exercises which assess the strengths and weaknesses of the services.

The U.S. Air Force (UASF) has established itself as a force to be reckoned with in recent years offering different capabilities. The only way to tackle asymmetric warfare is a 21st century electronic combat capability with a consolidation of currently dispersed function.

Defense experts and analysts have warned and listed the potential threats that the U.S. military could face. Besides extremism, China and Russia also pose a threat to the U.S. of an asymmetric war following the recent attack on Georgia.

The U.S. Air Force tanker program seems all set for a further delay with Congress and various committees still undecided on funding the program. One reason for delay is also the strings being attached to granting the funding.

Congress has criticized the multimillion-dollar project of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) by questioning its supplemental funding. The project, which will build special capsules, will be helpful for senior officials when flying aboard transport planes.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is busy working on software that would autonomously follow ground movement or track vehicles to help get the maximum out of manned and unmanned spy aircraft. This is to help provide field commanders with greater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan.

In order to make training as real as possible to actual operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the Army are stepping up joint predeployment training. This move to get different perspectives from different groups of the armed forces is useful in improving capabilities.

The nearly $5.2 billion takeover agreement between the DRS management and Finmeccanica is being evaluated by the U.S. government. Italy's Finmeccanica will not suffer any protectionist U.S. fallout from the reopening of the U.S. Air Force tanker tender as the permission from the U.S. government to take over U.S. firm DRS Technologies is awaited.

The defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics (AT&L), John Young, created an office, the Space and Intelligence Capabilities office, to review significant defense space acquisition programs. Joshua Hartman will serve as primary adviser to Young in space and intelligence issues and lead the Space Overarching Integrated Product Team.

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is a multifunctional force with global reach capable of tackling any kind of threat in today's and future conditions. The USAF is preparing itself by upgrading and modernizing its resources to achieve operational optimization.