The Air Force is expected to award a contract early next year for 1,165 new privatized housing units and improvements to hundreds more at six Air Force bases in the Midwest. The majority of the work—construction of 676 new housing units and renovations to 376 existing base homes—will be done at Cannon AFB, N.M., which has the greatest need for improved housing, according to an Associated Press report. USAF officials anticipate that this work will take six years to complete. The Air Force has renovated more than 23,000 privatized homes since the late 1990s in an effort to expeditiously improve the quality of life for airmen at a lower cost than military construction can provide.
The rate of building B-21 bombers would speed up if the fiscal 2026 defense budget passes. But it remains unclear how much capacity would be added, and whether the Air Force would simply build the bombers faster, or buy more.
