Boeing announced Monday that it has connected the F-15E mission training center at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to the Air Force’s distributed mission operations network, thereby enabling Mountain Home’s Strike Eagle pilots, for the first time, to be able to train virtually at home with pilots located around the world. “This new capability,” said Mark McGraw, Boeing’s vice president for training systems and services, ”provides realistic training at a fraction of the cost of live-fly training exercises, which require you to bring all of your personnel and aircraft together in one location.” Mountain Home is the first of three F-15E training centers that Boeing will link to the network this year. DMO installations are scheduled for completion this fall at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., and RAF Lakenheath, the company said.
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.