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  • A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft, assigned to the 350th Expeditionary Aircraft Refueling Squadron, flies over Qatar, Feb. 13, 2021.

    The Air Force partners with Twelve, proves it’s possible to make jet fuel out of thin air

    Air Force Operational Energy endorsed the carbon transformation company Twelve to launch a pilot program to demonstrate that their proprietary technology could convert CO2 into operationally viable aviation fuel called E-Jet®.

  • Around the Air Force: C-130 Virtual Reality Maintenance, Microgrid Project and MilTax

    Today's look Around the Air Force features a look at Virtual Reality maintenance software for C-130s, a more resilient power grid technology and MilTax benefits for this tax season. (Hosted by Senior Airman Marqus Williams)
  • U.S. Army Maj. Nathan Gunter, left, and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Graham, both 497th Operations Support Squadron ground liaison officers, stand together for a photo May 13, 2019 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. In daily operations, U.S. Army ground liaison officers assist U.S. Air Force intelligence Airmen by translating Army operational and tactical terminology and graphics in operations orders to verbiage that Airmen can understand. Ultimately, the U.S. Army’s ground liaison mission creates a strategic enabler for senior leaders in multiple services. They serve as the air component’s touchpoint with the land component and help ensure a multi-domain perspective is applied when planning and executing air operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nick Wilson)

    Army GLOs enable joint combat power, battlefield safety

    The Department of Defense receives a significant amount of its intelligence from the Air Force distributed common ground system, which is an enterprise of globally networked analysts and cyber professionals linked together by a global communications architecture.
  • A four-switch panel called the airframe mounted accessory drive, or AMAD

    Stealth pilots, high school students create innovative part for $2.2 billion aircraft

    Across the Air Force, changes to equipment, policies and procedures have been made to save money, to save time and to save lives. From the highest levels, Airmen across the service are being encouraged to innovate. It’s this innovation that will deliver lethality to outpace adversaries, says Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein, and maintain the U.S. position as the world’s strongest, most powerful military.
  • Tech. Sgt. Nathan Michaud, 557th Expeditionary Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron, Engineering pavement and equipment operator, ties a chain to an excavator during construction of Air Field Damage repair equipment warehouse, Dec. 23, 2018 at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.

    REDHORSE and Prime BEEF building up ADAB

    The 1st Expeditionary Civil Engineer Group provides theater-wide engineering technical services, light and heavy troop labor construction and repairs within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in order to engineer combat power and establish and sustain combat platforms for USCENTCOM and other joint forces.
  • Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen W. Wilson deliversed remarks during an Air Force Association Breakfast in Arlington, Va., Nov. 14, 2018. In his remarks, Wilson highlighted the importance of taking a whole-of-nation approach to expanding the competitive space. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Rusty Frank)

    Air Force vice chief of staff: National security is a team sport

    Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen W. Wilson highlighted the importance of taking a whole-of-nation approach to expanding the national security competitive space during an Air Force Association Breakfast Seminar in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 14, 2018.

  • From the base to the fight, every Airman can protect the power

    October is Energy Action Month across the federal government, and for the Air Force, it represents an opportunity to remind Airmen of the role energy plays in fulfilling the Air Force’s mission.

  • Around the Air Force: Jan. 20

    On this look around the Air Force, Airmen lend a helping hand to support the inauguration and service members conduct subject matter expert exchanges at Clark AB, Philippines.
  • Steve Mellin, 6th Space Warning Squadron support officer, stands before two wind turbine power generators on Cape Cod Air Force Station, Mass., Sept. 11, 2014. The two wind turbines provide Cape Cod AFS with nearly 50 percent of their power needs and helps save the Air Force more than $600,000 annually. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Ardrey)

    AF wind turbine helps power missile warning radar

    A wind turbine at Cape Cod Air Force Station, part of Joint Base Cape Cod, Mass., is partially powering one of the largest ground-based missile warning radars in the United States.
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