Washington and Seoul have decided to increase the acreage on Kunsan AB, South Korea, to accommodate possibly two US Army helicopter battalions and possibly other units, reports Stars and Stripes. US Forces Korea hasn’t made final plans, but the expected extension would be around 315 acres. One possible drawback, although South Korea had “deeded” 196 acres of the tract to USFK after the Korean War, it has been used by local farmers.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
