Air Combat Command has provided more than $260,000 in additional funding to support the transition assistance program run by the Airmen and Family Readiness Center at Langley AFB, Va. With USAF’s drawdown of some 40,000 airmen in full swing, ACC wants to stay on top of the force shaping exodus, reports journalist TSgt. Russell Wicke. ACC plans to offer both group pre-separation counseling and traditional individual counseling. The Air Force expects ultimately to save about $6 billion a year by trimming the force and to use that money for its aircraft recapitalization efforts.
A new Air Force organization is searching for counter-drone firms to participate in a dozen or more exercises to help create operating plans by the end of this year for defending the service’s U.S.-based installations from drone attacks.