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Feb 4, 2011

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Feb 3, 2011

- Colorado Lawmakers Attempt To Restrict Airspace For Proposed AFSOC Low-Altitude Tactical Navigation Area For Environmental Reasons source: upi.com

- Airbus Raising Rate Of Production Of A330 Aircraft To Meet Demand, Analyst Says Perception And Economics Enhance Company’s Bid To Build Air Force KC-X source: al.com

- 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB Receives Third of Five New C-17s, Delivery Brings Number To 60 C-17s In Wing source: postandcourier.com

- Boeing & EADS (Airbus) Bid Revisions Due By 8AM Feb 11 AT WPAFB source: govexec.com

- SAIC To Support Network Operations For Air Force With Contract Up To $460 Million, Under Larger NETCENTS-2 Contract source: executivebiz.com

- Board of Visitors To Meet At Air Force Academy This Weekend To Review Academics, Morale, Discipline, Among Other Things source: csbj.com

- Air Force To Launch Another Boeing X-37B Orbital  Test Vehicle For Secret Mission, Previous Flight Was 7 months Long source: space.com

Feb 2, 2011

- Separating From Active Duty? AF Reserves Wants You To Consider Opportunities They Can Offer source: af.mil

- U. S. Veterans Say Hmong General Vang Pao Is Hero - Credited For Saving American Lives During Vietnam War - Deserves To Be Buried At Arlington National Cemetery source: sacbee.com

- Air Force Medical Service Joins Social Media Craze source: af.mil

- "Resetting The Force For The Future" Is Theme For 27th Annual Air Warfare Symposium In Orlando - SecAF, CMSAF, Command Leaders To Attend source: prnewswire.com

- Boeing Rolls Out 1,000th 767, Thinks It Will Sell Many More 767s & 787s Even If It Doesn't Win Air Force KC-X Contract source: bizjournals.com

Feb 1, 2011

- On Wrong Track? Cost Cuts Adding Doubts About Future of American Power Versus China's Military Growth source: reuters.com

- McGuire AFB Airman On Way To Work Dies In Crash On Ice-slickened Road source: trentonian.com

- Boeing To Present Their Multi-Billion Dollar Bid To Air Force On February 11 For 179 "KC-X" Tankers source: kwch.com

- Investigation Of Polish Air Force One Crash Killing Polish President & Wife - 148 Pages Of Investigative Comments Left Out, New Investigation To Be Launched source: huffingtonpost.com

- Biometric Fingerprint Scanning Coming To A Base Gate Near You, Robbins AFB One Of First source: 13wmaz.com

- Brazil Looks To Russia Or More Likely U. S. (Boeing) For Future Of Its Air Force source: heritage.org

- Retired AFSOC Comm Director Col Faughn Joins "Telos", Leading Provider Of Advanced Technology Solutions To Federal Government source: businesswire.com

- “You Are Torturing Me” AF Captain Cried Out As Local Police Allegedly Beat, Threatened & Tased Him - Awarded $125,000 By County That's "Not Admitting Any Wrong Doing" source: daytondailynews.com

- Likely That U.S. Air Force "Will Have To Stay In Iraq For Several Years At Least" - Iraq To Get 18 F-16s & Advanced Weapons At Cost Of $4.5 Billion source: upi.com

- $10 Million 36,000 Square Foot Headquarters Building Being Built At Moody AFB source: walb.com

- Costs Rise $450 Million For Air Force To Launch ULA's Delta 4 And Atlas 5 Expendable Rockets source: examiner.com

- Air Force Aims To Retain Pilots & CSOs, Offers Up To $125,000 Bonus To Stay Past 10 Years source: airforcetimes.com

- Lockheed, Boeing, MiG, Dassault, Saab & EADS To Showcase Jets At Air Show In Bid For $11 Billion India Air Force Fighter Aircraft Deal source: en.rian.ru

- AF Lt Col (DR.) Beutler - Rest Ice Compression & Elevation (RICE) Not Enough For Ankle And Heel Pain source: airforcetimes.com

- "Pizzas 4 Patriots" Started By Retired Master Sergeant To Send 7,000 Chicago Style Pizzas To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea and The Philippines For Super Bowl source: bnd.com

- RFID AeroTag To Store Maintenance History On Aircraft Parts source: marketwire.com

- Despite Proposed Budget Cuts, Alabama Senator Shelby Says Maxwell-Gunter Shouldn't Fear Closure Or Realignment source: montgomeryadvertiser.com

- Bought Second-hand From U. S. For $282 Million, Canada Looks To Re-Sell Five CH-147D Chinooks source: ctv.ca

- Etegent Technologies Ltd Awarded Air Force Phase I SBIR Grant, To Track Objects Across Multiple Environments With Wide Area Persistent Sensors source: marketwire.com

- $1.8 Million Spent On 51,000 Cubic Yards Of Sand To Restore Patrick AFB Base Beaches source: floridatoday.com

Jan 31, 2011

- Chief Now 'Airman Basic' Gurney Sentenced To 20 Months Confinement, Reduction To Rank Of E-1, Dishonorable Discharge For 15 Violations Of The UCMJ source: af.mil

- The Need For Speed? China Rushes To Use 'Top Gun' Clips As Footage For Chinese Air Force Training Mission source: wsj.com

- Topic: Egypt - Secretary of State Clinton's Interview With Bob Schieffer Moments After Egyptian Air Force Flies Warplanes Over Crowd source: state.gov

- More Political Contoversy For KC-X Program - Pending Rulings By WTO Could Prove Troublesome source: forbes.com

- WTO: Government Subsidies To Boeing Were Illegal? source: bizjournals.com

- 2 Commands Pushing For NCOs, (Ultimately All Airmen) To Earn CCAF Degrees - Next: Entire AF? source: airforcetimes.com

- Wednesday's NORAD Air Defense Exercise Over Cowboys Stadium Is Practice For Super Bowl source: dallasnews.com

- Air Force Offers Scholarship Program Students Pursuing Careers In Allied Health Professions source: dailyutahchronicle.com

- Water Contaminated - 'Not Safe To Drink' At Arnold Air Force Base source: wsmv.com

- $13.7 Million Contract Modification Awarded To 'Integral Systems' By AF For EPOCH Integrated Product Suite (IPS) To Consolidate Satellite Ground Systems source: globenewswire.com

- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)? One Big Virtual System By Northrop Grumman To Integrate Air & Space Systems source: zdnet.com

- Five Academy Instructors & Advocacy Group File Lawsuit Against Air Force Academy General For Scheduling "Lord's Army" Speaker At National Prayer Luncheon source: airforcetimes

- Reenactment Of Pearl Harbor Attack Scheduled At Charleston AFB Air Show In April source: postandcourier.com

- Six Air Force Generals To Receive New Assignments source: airforcetimes.com

- Turkish Air Force Celebrates 100 Year Anniversary - Wants To Be World's Leading "Air & Space Power" source: hurriyetdailynews.com

- Gates: Honor Has Been Restored To Global Strike Command's Nuclear Mission By Retiring Strategic Command General source: globalsecuritynewswire.org

- Davis-Monthan AFB Search & Rescue Reservist Unit Responds To Pima County Sheriff Helicopter Crash source: kgun9.com

- $14.8 Million 46,500 Square-foot Jacksonville-Little Rock AFB University Center Opens To Public & Airman source: todaysthv.com

- New C-130 Reserve Unit Being Created At Little Rock AFB source: dvidshub.net

- Boeing & iRobot Corp Delivered First 30 (Of Indefinite Quantity) Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGV) To U. S. Air Force For Use By Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Units source: shephard.co.uk

- Indian Air Force To Have Mach 3 Supersonic BrahMos Cruise Missile By 2012, Nine Times More Destructive Than Other Cruise Missiles Of Its Class In The World source: thehindu.com

Jan 30, 2011

- Former Olympian, Air Force POW Louis Zamperini, 93, 'Astonishing' Life Featured By Book 'Unbroken' source: ottawacitizen.com

- Uncertain Amounts Of Unexploded Ordinances Being Found On Cape From WWII Training source: capecodonline.com

- Denver School Of Theology Instructing Pastoral And Spiritual Care Masters Program To Air Force Chaplains, Help To Deal With Spiritual Impacts Of War source: usatoday.com

- Development Of The F-35 Progress Extremely Slow source: pnj.com

- Selfridge Air National Guard Base To Find Use For Old Colonial Style Base Homes source: freep.com

- Former Airman Sentenced To Five Years Probation, Community Service For Fraudulent 'Do-it-yourself' (DITY) Move source: juneauempire.com

- Writer's Reasoning On Why ROTC Would Not Be Welcome On His Campus source: browndailyherald.com

- MacDill AFB Army Colonel's Wife Kills Teenage Kids Because They 'Talked Back And Were Mouthy' source: sify.com

- Retired Airman's Story On Train 'Hobby' Turned Into Worldwide Business source: appeal-democrat.com

- Former Airman, Dr. Jim Hamilton Still Helping People At 82, Keeps Prices Low - "I didn't get into medicine to get rich. I just wanted to make a living and help others" source: star-telegram.com

- Growing Phenomenon Of Californians Relocating To Oklahoma - Plus 550 Long Beach Boeing Employees  To Move To Tinker AFB Area source: newsok.com

- Historic Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame Plaques In Duluth Airport To Be Digitally Replaced source: duluthnewstribune.com

- Retired Army Gen. Tony Tata To Become Superintendent Of Wake County, NC Public Schools source: charlotteobserver.com

- Retired Air Force Col. Jim Beard Speaks Out Against Virginia Toll Road That Would Run Through His Property source: fredericksburg.com

- South Korea Seeking New Stealth Fighter Fleet, Sooner Rather Than Later source: english.yonhapnews.co.kr

- Humanity: Treating All People With Respect, Not Because They Won A Medal Or Are Deemed Important source: citizen-times.com

- News Website Bashes Taiwan Air Drill And Ability Of Taiwan To Defend Themselves source: chinapost.com.tw

- Stance Debated: New El Mirage City Council To Pledge Support for Luke Air Force Base, F-35s source: azcentral.com

Jan 29, 2011

- Largest U. S. Military Library At Fairchild AFB To Become Even Larger, Price: $13.4 Million source: maxwellgunterdispatch.com

- Chief Master Sergeant William C. Gurney Convicted For Mistreating Airmen (Pursuing Sexual Relationships) source: daytondailynews.com

- Top Enlisted Man Faces Up to 16 1/2 Years In Jail source: startribune.com

- Chief Master Sgt. William Gurney's Sentencing Not Yet Disclosed source: wfmj.com

- Convicted Chief Was 'Articulate Superman', Sent Racy Messages And Photos To Lower-ranking Females source: wfmj.com

- DBKB Technologies And Raytheon Among Recently Awarded Small Contracts By Air Force In Maryland source: gazette.net

- Former Astronaut USSTRATCOM General Kevin Chilton Retires After 34 Years, Will Spend Time Being Dad, Husband source: ketv.com

- Fraudclosure: Former Air Force Lawyer Retired Col. John S. Odom, Jr. Supporting Soldier Whose Home Taken By Banks While In Iraq source: malaysiasun.com

- Air Force 'Space Fence' To Track Objects Orbiting In Space Using S-Band Radar, $214 Million To Raytheon and Lockheed Martin For Design source: oneindia.in

- Russia Closely Watching Air Force 'X-37B' 'Spy' Spacecraft, Worked On Similar Design source: themoscowtimes.com

- Recent Test Flight of China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Raises Big Questions, Fears source: atimes.com

- Netherlands Air Force Receives First Of Six CH-47F Chinooks From Boeing source: flightglobal.com

- EADS North America Gives Statement To Senate Armed Services Committee On KC-X Data Disclosure source: defpro.com

- New Details Emerge Thursday On Air Force Info Mix-up Of $35 Billion KC-X Bid Contest source: heraldnet.com

- Air Force Slammed By Senate Armed Services Committee, 'Highly Classified' KC-X Information Wasn't Accessed, Neither Company Has Filed Protest source: stripes.com

- Despite 'Saga Of Mismanagement' KC-X Decision Still To Be Made In Feb or March source: theolympian.com

- KC-X Bidding War Is '3rd Try' To Replace Aging KC-135 Tankers, Disc Swap Makes Decision More Difficult source: heraldnet.com

- KC-X: 'It’s only the federal government that would take 10 years to do a contract. … It just makes no sense to me.' - Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown source: thenewstribune.com

- Writer States Corporate Lobbyists Are Rolling Back Hard Fought Protective Regulations Whilst Military Personnel Fight In Middle East Thinking Country Is Being Kept Free source: heraldnet.com

- Air Force Academy, Space Command To Host/Judge At 5th Annual National Security Innovation Competition (NSIC) source: pr.com

- 'My Personal Language Tutor' (MyPLT) Awarded Contract, Will Teach Multiple Languages To Air Force Personnel source: prlog.org

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