Airmen permanently assigned to Creech AFB, Nev., will continue to receive assignment incentive pay through 2011 under a one-year extension that the Office of the Secretary of Defense has granted. Creech is a major USAF remotely piloted aircraft hub, with airmen there able to control MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper RPA that fly over Afghanistan and Iraq via satellite communications links. The AIP has been in effect for airmen at Creech since July 2008 to offset the base’s high operations tempo, austere location, and lack of quality-of-life facilities. AIP will be $300 per month for airmen in their first 36 months at Creech and $750 monthly thereafter. (Creech release)
The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of its commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February—part of a larger project to quickly increase the cadence of the Pentagon’s hypersonic flight testing and field advanced, high-speed systems and components at scale.
