HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah
In an Air Force that often laments the only constant is change, unprecedented encouragement from senior leaders to innovate is dissolving this phrase s negative connotation and driving Airmen at all levels to enact positive change within their organizations.
Innovators from across the Minuteman III enterprise have embraced Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.’s strategic imperative to “accelerate change or lose,” adopting a rapid, collaborative approach to implementing innovation.
The Innovation Team aspires to serve as a model for system program offices and warfighter partnerships across the Air Force. In March, the team launched a joint Airmen Powered by Innovation (API) campaign to solicit innovative ideas from weapon system operators, maintainers and defenders, to name a few. The campaign is open to submissions from DoD employees and contractors through Dec. 31, 2021.
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah
In an Air Force that often laments the only constant is change, unprecedented encouragement from senior leaders to innovate is dissolving this phrase s negative connotation and driving Airmen at all levels to enact positive change within their organizations.
Innovators from across the Minuteman III enterprise have embraced Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.’s strategic imperative to “accelerate change or lose,” adopting a rapid, collaborative approach to implementing innovation.
The Innovation Team aspires to serve as a model for system program offices and warfighter partnerships across the Air Force. In March, the team launched a joint Airmen Powered by Innovation (API) campaign to solicit innovative ideas from weapon system operators, maintainers and defenders, to name a few. The campaign is open to submissions from DoD employees and contractors through Dec. 31, 2021.
Russian Su-27 fighter scrambled to intercept US strategic bomber over Baltic Sea
According to the press service, Russian radars detected an air target approaching the national sovereign airspace
MOSCOW, May 19. /TASS/. A Russian Su-27 fighter jet has shadowed a B-52N strategic bomber of the US Air Force over the Baltic Sea, preventing its unauthorized incursion into Russia’s airspace, the Western Military District’s press service told reporters on Wednesday.
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According to the press service, Russian radars detected an air target approaching the national sovereign airspace. A Su-27 fighter jet of the Baltic Fleet’s air defense units on duty was scrambled to identify the air target and to intercept it in order to prevent the violation of the state border of the Russian Federation. The pilot of the Russian fighter jet identified the air target as a B-52N strategic bomber of the US Air Force’s Air Force Global Strike Command and shadowed it over the Baltic Sea, the
USAF airman creates new mat to reduce foreign object debris 18 May 2021 (Last Updated May 18th, 2021 16:25)
A US Air Force airman has developed a smart maintenance floor mat to reduce foreign object debris.
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509th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Airman Paul Olexa pitches an idea called the Mag Rug during a Spark Tank competition at Whiteman AFB in 2020. Credit: USAF / Staff Sgt Dylan Nuckolls.
US Air Force’s (USAF) 509th Bomb Wing Innovation Office assistant 1st class airman Paul Olexa has created a new floor mat designed to reduce foreign object debris (FOD).
FOD threatens aircraft safety and costs the aviation industry an estimated $4bn in repairs each year.
The debate on the ICBM fleet just got a whole lot easier By: Patty-Jane Geller 8 hours ago
Senior Airman Ryan Page inspects the front of a booster in preparation for a missile roll transfer on April 20, 2021 at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. Missile handlers follow a step-by-step checklist to ensure the Minuteman III ICBM is able to roll between two vehicles for routine maintenance before it returns to the field. (Airman Elijah Van Zandt/U.S. Air Force) The debate over whether to stick with the half-century-old Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile or replace it with the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program just got a whole lot easier. On May 12, Gen. Timothy Ray, commander of U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command, confirmed that extending the Minuteman III through 2075 would actually cost $38 billion more than developing the GBSD.