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  • Air Force releases new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile solicitation

    The U.S. Air Force released today a request for proposals for its Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, or GBSD, intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system program. Up to two contract awards are expected in 4th quarter fiscal year 2017.GBSD is the follow-on to the aging LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM. 

  • Keeping Team Minot mobile

    Airmen from the 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron repair and maintain various types of vehicles at the Defender Dome at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., July 28, 2016. Airmen from the 5th LRS vehicle maintenance flight work to ensure that Team Minot stays mobile. The 91st Security Support Squadron is

  • Hard work helps equipment laboratory improve processes

    Kirtland’s Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory, or PMEL, has made great strides over the past five years, going from a troubled lab to one that is seeing continued success.According to Bob Eslinger, Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment flight chief, the Air Force was considering

  • A 360° Global Air Power Series Trailer

    Barksdale's Global Power Museum is going 360°! Here is a teaser of what's to come, see and learn all about the history around you! VR users, click the cardboard option for virtual reality mode. (For full 360° effect view on a mobile devices or up-to-date web browsers)

  • Teamwork helps save, relocate bees

    Earlier this month, Malmstrom Air Force Base encountered a wildlife phenomenon, and through perseverance and understanding, handled what could have been a sticky situation in the most natural way possible.Airmen utilized quick thinking and humane treatment to save the lives of approximately 25,000

  • AFGSC Striker Speaking Series talks deterrence

    ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. – Ellsworth hosted the first event in the Striker Speaking Series July 21, 2016, a traveling symposium headed by Maj. Gen. Michael Fortney, the vice commander of Air Force Global Strike Command.Fortney, joined by three deterrence and geopolitical experts, led a panel

  • Prime BEEF a recipe for success

    ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. – The Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force challenge kicked off at Ellsworth AFB July 22 with more than 130 participants.Prime BEEF teams consist of 28th Civil Engineer Squadron personnel who are organized, equipped and trained to respond within hours to worldwide

  • National security requires modernized nuclear deterrence

    The Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for strategic deterrence and nuclear integration stressed the importance of nuclear deterrence and the need for nuclear modernization July 21 at an Air Force Association breakfast at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.