#agile combat employment

The U.S. Air Force has awarded 24 companies spots on a 10-year, $920 million vehicle to modernize aerospace ground equipment, supporting launch, recovery, and sustainment for fighters, bombers, and uncrewed platforms worldwide.

Airmen from the 187th Fighter Wing completed Operation Tuskegee Thunder at Dannelly Field, Alabama, testing rapid sortie generation and austere sustainment concepts for the F-35A Lightning II to ensure fifth-generation airpower readiness in high-threat environments.

The U.S. Air Force is deploying LEAP-ACE, a targeted initiative training operational Airmen in specialized technical foreign vocabulary to eliminate operational friction and accelerate distributed airfield sustainment alongside allied forces in critical theaters like the Indo-Pacific.

Lt. Gen. David G. Shoemaker has taken command of the Seventh Air Force in South Korea, assuming responsibility for deterring North Korea and China. The command faces structural readiness challenges due to heavy reliance on legacy fourth-generation fighters and rotational fifth-generation deployments inside the First Island Chain.