The BRAC commission will soon strike the tents, start the caravan, and go home. The panel held its final public hearing on Saturday, and its final deliberations end on Aug. 27. President Bush will receive the final recommendations by Sept. 8.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
