Readers may recall our item (DR, 09/27/05) taking note of a Sept. 23 meeting of some 100 Air Force general officers at a hotel in Omaha. USAF’s new Chief of Staff, Gen. Michael Moseley, had called the brass together for a free-flowing session. In at least one sense, he got it. We are told that more than half of the attendees were sickened by the Norwalk virus, a nasty food-poisoning bug that produces nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Moseley himself was a victim.
Anduril and General Atomics will develop their Collaborative Combat Aircraft for the Air Force, beating out Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, the service announced on April 24. But any of the non-selected companies can compete to actually manufacture the eventual design, the Air Force said.