First Lt. Maurielle Pankau, a 183rd Air Component Operations Squadron intelligence analyst planner, participates in the Shadow Operations Center — Nellis "Experiment 3" on June 13, 2025. (Airman 1st ...

The Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will return to orbit May 16. (Jeremy Webster/ U.S. Air Force) When the secretive X-37B space plane returns to orbit on May 16, it will be carrying more ...

The All-Domain Sensing Cross-Functional Team built upon seven years of success from previous DDIL experiments to plan, develop, and execute this year’s event in less than six months. The experiment ...

Col. Eric Felt, head of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, speaks June 4, 2020, during a SpaceNews virtual event. WASHINGTON — The Air Force Research Laboratory announced ...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein, left, chats with Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson after flying Textron's AT-6 as part of the service's light-attack experiment, held August 2017 at ...

The US military is sending its X-37B space plane back into space later this month, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said Wednesday. The Air Force doesn't often say much about the X-37B, but Barrett ...

The U.S. Air Force recently conducted an exercise in which AI was used to recommend targets in a high-pressure combat scenario. Called "Experiment 3," the four-day exercise took place last month and ...