> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/air-force-news.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `sources/registry.yaml (id: air-force-news)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # Air Force News unavailable · Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Defense Official site: https://www.af.mil/News/ · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## What this source is The Department of the Air Force organizes, trains, and equips U.S. air forces. Its news index carries articles and releases on operations, acquisitions, and personnel, typically several items per day. **Model-written orientation** The Department of the Air Force publishes news articles and releases about air operations, space operations, acquisitions, and organizational matters. The Department of the Air Force organizes, trains, and equips air and space forces for the United States, comprising the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force as of 2019. The Air Force's mission encompasses air superiority, global mobility, precision strike, and information dominance through aerial operations. The Air Force operates aircraft ranging from fighters to large transport and tanker aircraft globally and maintains capabilities for combat operations, training, humanitarian assistance, and peacetime operations. The Air Force's news channel publishes official announcements, press releases, and feature articles covering air operations, exercise and training activities, acquisition and modernization programs, personnel achievements and changes, organizational announcements, technology development, weapons system testing, and strategic initiatives. Content includes reports on operations and exercises, announcements of new aircraft entering service or modernization programs, personnel and command announcements for officers, notices of significant Air Force events or achievements, updates on technology development and innovation, partnership announcements, and policy or strategy statements. The publication frequency is high, with multiple items published daily. Items appearing in this digest from the Air Force will represent topics the service has selected for public communication. These may include current operations and exercises, aircraft acquisitions or modernization programs, personnel announcements, weapons system development and testing, organizational changes, technology innovations, international cooperation initiatives, strategic doctrine and policy statements, or training and readiness reports. The Air Force's news channel provides official Air Force perspectives on its operations, capabilities, and priorities. The Air Force's communications reflect the service's publicly stated mission, operational activities, modernization efforts, and strategic direction. The news channel serves as a formal channel for official Air Force announcements to Congress, media, the public, allies, and stakeholders. _Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-05 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content._ ## Identity and registry record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Registry id | `air-force-news` | | Agency / parent organization | Department of Defense | | Branch | executive | | Type | HTML index | | Status | unavailable | | Tier | 2 | | URL (home) | https://www.af.mil/News/ | | Registered | 2026-07-26 | | Registry notes | ArticleCS platform; an RSS.ashx feed likely exists (unverified). Probed 2026-07-26: robots.txt disallows our identified client for this path. Not fetched, per GUIDE §3 (no evasion). Fallback channels (GovDelivery email) to evaluate. | ## How we ingest it | Term | Description | |---|---| | Channel | HTML index | | Method | HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending viability check) | | Request budget | the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too) | | Politeness | robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded | | Capture and hash | captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md) | ## Ingestion health Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. ## Ingestion statistics These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher. Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only. ### All time No requests to www.af.mil are recorded in the request log. ### Last 30 days, day by day No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.