About 400 space professionals participated in the Schriever IV Space Wargame run last week from Nellis AFB, Nev. The setting was 2025 as the space force attempted to “defend, augment, and replace space systems” and discover “seams in command-and-control relationships to support regional commanders,” according to an Air Force Space Command release. Col. Larry Chodzko, head of the Space Innovation and Development Center at Schriever AFB, Colo., called the effort “extremely beneficial.” He noted that the third wargame in the series led US Strategic Command “to evolve its Joint Functional Component Command structure to better serve the warfighter.”
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.