The Air Force has graduated its last class of airmen from its Voice Network Systems course at Sheppard AFB, Tex., from which the airmen worked in such areas as telephone key systems, circuitry, and computer systems. That field and 15 others in communications and information are merging into USAF’s new cyber operations arena expected to comprise 13 cyberspace career fields. Continue
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.