Secretary of the Air Force International Affairs

April 29, 2025
Trilateral E-7A Agreement Marks New Milestone with KC-46 Certification

In a historic first, the U.S. Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and Royal Air Force (RAF) collaborated to rapidly improve global combat capability while gathering critical test data for future acquisition of the E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft.
Feb. 28, 2023
Air Force awards E-7A prototype contract

The Department of the Air Force awarded The Boeing Company a contract to begin work on the E-7A weapon system, which is slated to replace the E-3 AWACS.
Nov. 17, 2022
US, UK, Australian and Canadian forces operate as a combined force in exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Coalition

“Fights on” loudly echos across the battlespace kicking off exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Coalition 23-1 at the Distributed Mission Operations Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and distributed sites across four countries, during the first day of an eleven-day exercise.

Trilateral E-7A Agreement Marks New Milestone with KC-46 Certification