The U.S. Air Force has deployed at least twelve refueling aircraft to Lajes Field in the Azores. The Department of Defense has not confirmed whether the deployment is related to the ongoing conflict ...

SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has been selected for a five-year architectural and engineering ...

ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO - U.S. officials have committed to install more piezometers (aquifer monitoring equipment) on Terceira island to assess the impact of contamination caused by the U.S. Air Force, said ...

An Air Force B-2 Spirit Bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, undertakes a hot pit refueling operation at Lajes Field, Portugal, on September 12, 2023. (Cristina Oliveira/Air Force) American ...

Over Thanksgiving, I briefly visited the Azores, an archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic, which is home to Lajes Field, a Portuguese Air Force Base that is also home to the U.S. Air Force’s ...

Portugal, July 24, 1985: A construction worker mans a wheelbarrow on a construction site that was part of an enormous building program at Lajes Field in the Azores. The $200 million renovation and ...

While on the return flight to the United States, the trio of B-1Bs also took part in a hot pit refueling at Lajes Field, Azores. Last week, a United States Air Force Rockwell B-1B Lancer long-range ...

American airmen are being warned not to use water from some Portuguese Air Force-maintained buildings at an airfield in the Azores amid an outbreak of Legionella bacteria. According to an email shared ...