The Wall Street Journal's August Cole reports that a federal court overruled an Air Force contract that exclusively gives Boeing Co. the right to supply midair refueling tankers or "gas stations in the sky." The relatively small Alabama Aircraft Industries Inc. successfully ...

Any break in this Friday's newspaper from the inability to agree on a bailout of Wall Street is not likely to bear any better news: greenhouse gas emissions are building up in the atmosphere faster than predicted, ageless Sen. Ted Stevens started his corruption trial, and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is ...

The Washington Post's Dana Hedgepath reports that Boeing may not bid on a $35 billion Air Force contract to build midair refueling tankers. The Pentagon is currently finalizing the terms of the bidding, which was expected to put Boeing up against the combo of Northrop Grunman and a subsidiary ...

The Washington Post's Josh White reports that the new Air Force Chief of Staff is not afraid to acknowledge the service's lack of credibility. Gen. Norton A. Schwartz has told senior Air Force officials in briefings that the agency ...

A "Blue Ribbon" Air Force report made public last week says that security for nuclear weapon storage sites is bad, particularly the five places the U.S. uses to store weapons in Europe. The Washington Post's Walter Pincus looks at the report, ...

That's one lesson to take out of the GAO's scathing rebuke of the Air Force for rewarding a $40 billion contract to Northrup Grunman and European company Airbus,  instead of Boeing. The Washington Post's Dana Hedgepeth and Robert O'Harrow Jr. report that ...

In an unprecedented move, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates yesterday fired both the top military and civilian heads of the Air Force. Gates canned the chief of staff, Gen. Michael T. Mosely, and Secretary Michael W. Wynne after a number of embarrassing failures in securing the country’s nuclear arsenal. ...

USA Today’s Tom Vanden Brook reports that last month they were 11 attacks in Iraq from Predator drones, the Air Force’s unmanned surveillance and attack vehicles. This is more than double the previous month and shows growing confidence within the Pentagon about the new ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Siobahn Gorman reports that CIA Director Michael Hayden announced his retirement from his other job -- general in the Air Force. For many in the CIA and Congress, the move is a long overdue. Hayden’s appointment by President Bush fueled the perception that intelligence gathering is ...

The Washington Post’s Josh White reports on a fishy $50 million contract given to Strategic Message Solutions. The company had “barely existed” in 2005, but the contract was given that year “to reward a recently retired four-star general and a millionaire civilian pilot who had ...