The Space Foundation plans to conduct two special events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the United States’ Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) – one in Colorado Springs, which is the headquarters city of both Space Command and the Space Foundation, and one in Washington, D.C. The first commemorative event will take place on Friday, [...] [...]
Colorado Springs will have a net gain of 80 Air Force Reserve jobs as the military restructures amid a slowdown in defense spending. Schriever Air Force Base will get most of the additional Colorado jobs announced Tuesday, with 24 full-time positions and 56 part-time. Peterson Air Force Base will gain one full-time position and one [...] [...]
Commercial rocket companies will be able to compete for future launch services for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force has published a guide that will assist commercial companies in competing for the contracts. The document lays out the approach the Air Force will use to certify commercial launch companies for the Department of Defense [...] [...]
Buckley Air Force Base has opened new quarters for a fighter squadron that’s part of the homeland defense system established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The $4 million structure is for the F-16 pilots and crews of the Colorado Air National Guard’s 120th Fighter Squadron. The squadron is one of 18 air sovereignty [...] [...]
The top commander at Buckley Air Force Base says the facility contributed $1.7 billion to the local economy in the last federal fiscal year. Col. Clinton Crosier released the number in a speech to the Aurora Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce last week. Crosier says the total includes $26 million in construction, $16 [...] [...]
Members of three Air Force Reserve units that fly C-130 cargo planes on special missions are gathering this week for a conference at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. Units represented will be the 302nd Airlift Wing from Peterson, the 403rd Wing from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., and the 910th Airlift Wing from Youngstown Air [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 15,2010
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An Air Force colonel stationed at Buckley Air Force Base has been nominated for promotion to general. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Stephen T. Denker has been nominated for brigadier general. Denker is commander of the Space Operations Wing, Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado, National Reconnaissance Office. Buckley is in the Denver suburb of Aurora. [...]
The U.S. Air Force Academy will break ground Monday on a 6-megawatt solar installation. The switch to solar is expected to save the Academy $500,000 a year in electricity costs. The $18.3 million project was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and is another step in the Air Force NetZero initiative to generate all electricity needs [...] [...]
A new Air Force manual for cyberwarfare describes a shadowy, fast-changing world where anonymous enemies can carry out devastating attacks in seconds and where conventional ideas about time and space don’t apply. Much of the manual is a collection of definitions, acronyms and explanations of who reports to whom. But it occasionally veers into scenarios [...] [...]
The Air Force says its cyberwarfare unit is now fully operational. Gen. C. Robert Kehler, head of the Air Force Space Command, made the announcement Friday. The cyberwarfare unit is known as the 24th Air Force and is based at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. It is part of the Air Force Space Command, based [...] [...]
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