Clean-up efforts at the former Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, Tex., are 69 percent done, the San Antonio Business Journal reports. Kelly’s shallow groundwater area is contaminated with a chemical called trichloroethylene that was used to clean and degrease aircraft parts, but the newspaper says there is “no evidence” of community exposure to contaminants from Kelly. Still, the Air Force has set aside $5 million for public heath funding and is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to “address issues associated with the clean-up process.
Space Force acquisition leaders were already looking to see if they could shift some of their biggest programs to use commercial services or technology, but one of President Donald Trump's executive orders, signed April 9, that could super-charge that effort.