• Joining the 1%: Honoring Military Service Commitment

    During the ceremony, the future Airmen, Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Guardsmen signed their ceremonial letters of commitment and took the Oath of Enlistment, formally committing to serve their country.

  • Senate confirms new deputy defense secretary

    Stephen A. Feinberg was sworn in as the Defense Department's 36th deputy defense secretary and will be responsible for DOD's day-to-day business, including executing the defense secretary's priorities and managing the department's budget.

  • Hill AFB begins large detonations at Utah Test and Training Range

    The Air Force will begin its season of large detonation operations this month at the Utah Test and Training Range. The detonations - those involving more than 10,000 pounds of net explosive weight -- are to destroy old or obsolete Navy and Air Force rocket motors.

  • C2ISR delivers decision advantage through data

    On the modern battlefield, decision advantage is the key to decisive victory or deterrence. For the Department of the Air Force, the ability to gain that edge can be summed up in one word – data.    Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Division’s senior materiel leader

  • BESPIN Hosts Ribbon Cutting for New Downtown Montgomery Space

    Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation (BESPIN) celebrated a significant milestone on Mar. 10, 2025, with a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new downtown Montgomery, Alabama office space. This event marked a new chapter in BESPIN’s mission to drive innovation in mobile software

  • SMAS Team Delivers Major System Enhancements

    The Standard Material Accounting System (SMAS) tracks and reports expenditures, enabling efficient purchasing and issuing of supplies and equipment.The SMAS team successfully delivered a significant upgrade, streamlining financial management processes for users across the Air Force, Air National

  • Minimizing Disruption, Maximizing Performance: BAT Updates

    The Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Atlassian Toolset (BAT) successfully deployed a maintenance patch and an emergency patch on Jan. 23 and Jan. 24, 2025.Maintenance Patch: Originally scheduled for deployment on Dec. 5, 2024, but postponed to resolved Jira installation and plug-in

  • DAF Propels DoD Cloud Modernization

    The Department of the Air Force (DAF) took a leading role in expanding secure cloud options for the entire Department of Defense (DoD) by spearheading the authorization of Oracle Fusion Software as a Service (SaaS) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 at Impact Level 4 (IL4).This significant