Boeing has submitted a proposal to the Air Force to provide contractor logistics support services for the T-1A training aircraft fleet, the company said in a release earlier this month. The Air Force is expected to choose a contractor for this work for an eight-year term next summer. If selected, Boeing said it would provide field service personnel, manage a parts warehouse, issue and replace parts, and overhaul major aircraft components for 179 T-1As at five bases: Columbus AFB, Miss., Laughlin AFB, Tex., Randolph AFB, Tex., Vance AFB, Okla., and NAS Pensacola, Fla. The company already provides CLS for platforms such as the C-40, E-4B, KC-10, and T-38. The T-1A, which entered service with the Air Force in 1993 and passed a million flying hours in 2005, is used in specialized undergraduate pilot training for students selected to fly airlifters or tanker aircraft. It also is used to support navigator training.
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
