Direct talks between the U.S. Air Force and China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force have “dried up” over recent years and need to be restarted on Beijing’s end to avoid unsafe and unprofessional interactions in flight, a senior USAF leader said.

With an eye on Iran, the Middle East’s air forces are expanding and broadening the capabilities of their fighter fleets.

Skyborg is the tip of the iceberg in a multiservice push to bring autonomous control systems from laboratories to the battlefield.

Additional centralized authority over the Pentagon’s broad Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept could slow development and make the process more risk averse, the Pentagon’s lead for the effort said in response to a new think-tank report that argued a central authority is needed.

A Pentagon investigation into the Aug. 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 Afghan civilians calls for changes to how future airstrikes are handled but says those involved in conducting the strike did not violate any laws of war and simply made a mistake.

The U.S. Navy needs to increase the number of fighters it buys to maintain its current inventory size, as F-35s are coming online too slowly while F/A-18E/F production sunsets and the service has not backed up its talk on the prioritization of unmanned aerial vehicles, a new think tank report argues.

The White House has nominated Adm. Christopher Grady, the current commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Forces Command, to serve as the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a delay that raised concerns about a gap in the position.

U.S. naval aviation will need to field a next-generation stealth fighter, a carrier-based unmanned combat air vehicle, advanced rotorcraft and an assortment of new long-range missiles and directed energy weapons in 2030-2035, a newly-released vision document shows.