Maj. Gen. Ted F. Bowlds has taken command of the Air Force Research Laboratory, headquartered at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Gen. Bruce Carlson, head of Air Force Materiel Command, officiated at the ceremony at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton. Bowlds, who succeeds Maj. Gen. Perry L. Lamy, was the chief acquisition officer at Aeronautical Systems Center and has served in various program management functions, working on the F-117, B-2, and C-17 programs, among others.
An Air Force F-16 pilot designed a collapsible ladder that weighs just six pounds and folds into the unused cockpit map case.