The Air Force has said the United Launch Alliance is an urgent need, Roger Krone, president of Boeing’s network and space systems, told reporters Monday at AFA’s Washington conference, but the program’s fate is still in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission. Boeing has stipulated conditions to the final agreement, which it has called a Buy III contract. Krone expects the agreement to be settled in mid-October and said doesn’t see any impediments to that time frame, although he admitted to being “firewalled” from Lockheed Martin’s requirements.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew from Europe across the Middle East to the Persian Gulf on July 25 in a 32-hour flight, as conflicts continued to roil the area with U.S. troops coming under attack in Iraq and Syria on July 25 and July 26, U.S. officials told…