The Air Force will have to pay three contractors that were cheated out of a fair competition in 2001 for the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program when former Air Force acquisition official Darleen Druyun gave the contract to Boeing, per a new Government Accountability Office ruling. Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones Newswires reports that the GAO rejected USAF’s claim that the three companies—Lockheed Martin, L3 Communications, and BAE Systems—already had received adequate compensation. GAO originally ruled in favor of the three contractors in 2005.
The Air Force has begun depriving new trainees of more sleep and will soon ramp up the stress level in Basic Military Training to better prepare Airmen for the increased strain of combat operations such as Epic Fury.
