The Air Force is offering Aviator Continuation Pay to select pilots and air battle managers—no combat systems officers—for Fiscal 2007. The aim is to garner commitments from “specific rated officer demographic groups” to help the service “stabilize the inventory,” states an Air Force Personnel Center news release. Eligible pilots are being offered $25,000 for five years and ABMs get $15,000.
The Space Development Agency added 21 satellites to its nascent data transport network in an Oct. 15 launch, the second mission in a 10-month campaign to field 154 operational spacecraft.
