The Navy, which is chipping away at a readiness crisis among its fighters and electronic attack aircraft, is being hampered by a shortage of skilled workers, depot capacity and spare parts, a government watchdog found.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm about the Air Force’s ability to fully field several key legacy fixed-wing aircraft in its fleet.
A series of one-day safety stand-downs across all flying and maintenance wings has given the Air Force several clues on how to correct a string of troubling — and sometimes fatal — aviation crashes and other mishaps, the service said Monday.