Air Force Features

Sept. 1, 2023
Around the Air Force: Five ‘C's’ of Mission Command, Blended Wing Aircraft Prototype, $1.6 Billion for Dorms and CDC Improvements

In this week’s look around the Air Force, new doctrine is released on mission command, a blended wing aircraft is in development that could save money on fuel, and improvements are coming for dormitories and child development centers. (Hosted by Senior Airman Saomy Sabournin)
Aug. 16, 2023
DAF selects JetZero to develop blended wing body aircraft prototype

The Department of the Air Force selected JetZero for the next phase of a blended wing body prototype aircraft project Aug. 16.
Aug. 14, 2023
Minot AFB develop prototype gloves for extreme cold temperatures

Minot AFB's innovation cell, Atomic Spark, delivered an innovative solution that will be beneficial to Airmen during extreme cold weather.
Sept. 22, 2022
Air Force announces hypersonic missile contract award

The Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile is an air-launched, scramjet-powered hypersonic weapon designed to hold high-value targets at risk in contested environments from standoff distances.
March 3, 2021
B-21 Prototype Environmental Protection Shelters construction, test underway

Air Force Global Strike Command and the B-21 Program Office are testing various prototype shelters to identify the most effective and affordable designs that could be used across all three B-21 Main Operating Bases, the depot, and even at forward operating locations.
April 23, 2020
AFLCMC-led team delivers isolation container prototype for testing

Rapidly developed in response to the United States Transportation Command's Joint Urgent Operational Need, the Negatively Pressurized Conex, or NPC, is designed to fit inside of a C-17 Globemaster III, and enable the safe transport of as many as 28 patients both ambulatory and litter, and teams of
May 9, 2019
AERONet prototype could provide combat insight to allies

The Airborne Extensible Relay Over-Horizon Network, or AERONet, digitally links friendly forces, providing them with their own location, the location of other friendly forces and real-time enemy movement updates. It will be showcased to partner nations at the Bold Quest exercise in Finland this
Sept. 25, 2018
Transportation Management Office supports nuclear monitoring improvements

When members of the only Defense Department agency charged with monitoring nuclear treaties discovered shipped equipment was not being accurately accounted for at forward supply points, they took to the drawing board to devise a solution.

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