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Aug. 27, 2024
First consolidated Officer Training Course for Guardians to begin

OTC is the Space Force’s initial leader development course created to produce a multidisciplinary officer corps with a broad understanding of mission concepts and a foundational baseline to synchronize effects across the range of Space Force operational missions.
April 10, 2024
To maintain supremacy, Saltzman unveils strategy for tighter, more immersive collaboration with space industries

The U.S. Space Force’s official Commercial Space Strategy is a detailed blueprint for allowing industry to be more immersed in Space Force plans, development, and operations.
April 14, 2022
DAF updates leave program; includes support for fertility treatments, transition assistance programs

Championed by the Women’s Initiative Team, the Department of the Air Force Instruction 36-3003, Military Leave Program, now includes time for Airmen and Guardians who want to participate in a fertility treatment program at a military medical treatment facility.
Oct. 15, 2021
Kendall stresses necessity of culture, language skills for building partner alliances in strategic competition

“I want to emphasize the important role language training and cultural understanding play in today’s global operations,” Kendall said in his keynote address. “Language is a warfighting capability. Our language-enabled Airmen and Guardians operate in foreign countries around the world, and their
July 27, 2021
Senate confirms Kendall to be Air Force Secretary

Frank Kendall won confirmation from the Senate July 26 to be the 26th Secretary of the Air Force, placing an official with decades-long service in defense issues in the top civilian job at a time when the department is navigating new global challenges and wide-reaching modernization efforts.
July 8, 2020
Department of the Air Force stands up Diversity and Inclusion Task Force

The task force is charged with identifying and changing policies, procedures, barriers and other practices that may be unfairly impacting underrepresented Air and Space Professionals.
Oct. 28, 2019
Air Force releases criteria for new Remote Combat Effects Campaign Medal

The new medal, established by then-Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, is part of a continuing effort to recognize U.S. Air Force military members in a non-deployed status who directly participated in a Department of Defense combat operation from a remote location.
Oct. 16, 2019
Senate confirms Barrett to be Air Force secretary

The 85 to 7 vote makes Barbara Barrett the third consecutive woman confirmed to lead the Air Force and its 685,000 total force Airmen. Barrett replaces Heather Wilson who resigned in May. Undersecretary Matthew Donovan served as acting secretary in the interim.
June 4, 2019
SECAF embarks on her final sortie

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – A plane carrying Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, taxis through a water arch on Peterson Air Force Base, May 31, 2019, her last day as SECAF. Wilson announced her resignation in March after she was selected to be president of the University of Texas at El
Jan. 2, 2019
Uniform code of military justice changes

Effective Jan. 1, 2019, the Military Justice Act of 2016 will instate the most reform to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and Manual for Courts-Martial in decades, modernizing dated aspects of the military justice system while also providing transparency.