Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Tuesday that its Mission Technologies division in Fairborn, Ohio, was awarded a $209 million contract to support the development and sustainment of Air Force fighter and bomber weapons systems and subsystems.

Since the end of July, airmen and guardian trainees have been carrying inert M4 rifles — marked with distinctive red flash suppressors — as part of their daily regimen, a practice that stopped in 2012.

A lightning strike last week at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo knocked out power to the base commissary, causing the overnight loss of at least $50,000 in perishable food items.

Mountain adventure enthusiast Nicolaus Marshall is on the mend and already envisioning his next climb, after the quick wits of an employee at Ramstein Air Base who helped him out of an Alps-sized scare.

Kids can view deployment with confusion and fear. Operation K.U.D.O.S. at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Friday was meant to clear away that fear while having some fun.

Olympians Red Gerard and Hailey Langland joined Paralympic champion and Navy SEAL veteran Dan Cnossen for a USO-organized visit to military installations in remote Alaska.

An airman was discovered dead at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea on Monday, less than two weeks after the death of a fellow service member assigned to the same unit.

Col. Mark Kimball, the commander of an operations group at Ellsworth Air Force Base, was fired after an investigation found multiple crew failures led to a supersonic bomber’s crash landing in January.

Air Force officials say they’re investigating how a fire started in part of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) campus last month on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Several U.S. personnel were injured Monday in a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq, a defense official said. This incident comes after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday ordered additional warships and a fighter squadron to the Middle East to bolster defenses in the region.

A U.S. Navy helicopter made a precautionary landing in a field near the Japanese capital over the weekend, according to American and Japanese officials.

The recent ban prohibiting Colorado Springs uniformed military members from going to The Citadel mall was changed Wednesday to allow visits related to education or religion.

Pitch Black, a biennial exercise that began July 12 and ends Friday, brought 140 aircraft and 4,400 personnel from 21 nations to the Northern Territory and neighboring Queensland.

The Air Force has identified the airman who died July 14 when a car crashed into a roadside garage near Misawa Air Base, Japan.

The 459th Airlift Squadron and the 374th Medical Group at Yokota Air Base used a UH-1 Iroquois, or Huey, to fly a critically ill patient from Yokota to Yokosuka Naval Base in record time for emergency care.

The Air Force is reorganizing to fight a new kind of war and that was apparent as the Life Cycle Industry Days annual convention uniting the defense industry and those charged with keeping the Air Force flying launched in Dayton on Monday.

The top Air Force general in the Pacific evoked a threat posed by China, Russia and North Korea after inspecting air base improvements Tuesday in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Airman Kye Vang, 23, of the 8th Security Forces Squadron at Kunsan Air Base, was discovered on the installation Friday, the wing announced Sunday.

The Pentagon’s inability to share more details openly with Congress and the public about its progress with hypersonic weapons development could be contributing to increased costs and troubles managing risks, according to a recent federal watchdog report.