{
  "slug": "usaf",
  "register": {
    "slug": "usaf",
    "name": "Department of the Air Force",
    "abbr": "USAF",
    "jurisdiction": "federal",
    "state": "DC",
    "state_name": "District of Columbia",
    "category": "defense",
    "agency_type": "component",
    "parent": "dod",
    "parent_name": "Department of Defense",
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/usaf",
    "website": "https://pal.foia.gov",
    "reading_room": "https://www.usaf.gov/foia/reading-room",
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "federal-foia",
      "citation": "5 U.S.C. § 552",
      "statutory_days": 20,
      "business_days": true,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 90
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://pal.foia.gov",
        "label": "Agency FOIA Portal",
        "verified": true
      },
      {
        "channel": "email",
        "detail": "usaf@foia.usaf.gov",
        "label": "Email",
        "verified": false
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "Department of the Air Force FOIA Office, FOIA Requester Service Center, Washington DC 20208",
        "label": "Postal mail",
        "verified": false
      }
    ],
    "holdings": [
      "correspondence",
      "contracts",
      "reports",
      "emails",
      "memoranda",
      "data",
      "policies"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "Be specific on date range and custodians",
      "Cite public-interest fee waiver and news-media status if applicable",
      "Request Vaughn index for withholdings",
      "Ask for rolling release"
    ],
    "tracking": "Agency tracking number via acknowledgement letter; check PAL or agency portal.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Imported from AlethecaData. Institutions are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified. See /coverage."
  },
  "scorecard": {
    "requests_filed": 26,
    "median_days_to_determination": 176,
    "statutory_business_days": 20,
    "late_rate": 72,
    "release_rate": 48,
    "redaction_density": 66,
    "glomar_rate": 4,
    "fee_waiver_rate": 46,
    "appeal_success_rate": 20,
    "source": "Computed from Aletheca filings; not the agency's self-reported Annual FOIA Report."
  },
  "components": [],
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "ALT-2026-0171",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/requests/embargoed-request-0171",
      "title": null,
      "scope": null,
      "agency": {
        "slug": "usaf",
        "abbr": "USAF",
        "name": "Department of the Air Force",
        "jurisdiction": "federal"
      },
      "disposition": "filed",
      "disposition_label": "Filed",
      "disposition_tone": "wait",
      "terminal": false,
      "channel": "portal",
      "postal_service": null,
      "filed_at": "2026-08-14T16:00:00.000Z",
      "perfected_at": null,
      "closed_at": null,
      "agency_tracking": null,
      "fee_waiver": "pending",
      "clock": {
        "elapsed": 5,
        "allowed": 20,
        "remaining": 15,
        "overdue": false,
        "running": true
      },
      "visibility": "embargoed",
      "embargo_until": "2027-08-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "origin": {
        "kind": "commission",
        "partner": null
      },
      "campaign": null,
      "backers": null,
      "tags": [],
      "cost_cents": 6400
    }
  ]
}