A significant reshuffling of oversight responsibility is in the offing under the leadership of the new House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.). Government Executive reports that Skelton will shift Air Force strategic air to the Air and Land Forces Subcommittee (formerly Tactical Air and Land Forces). That will leave only Navy and Marine Corps programs within the former Projection Forces Subcommittee, now called the Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee.
The Air Force has finished modifying and testing the new VC-25B Bridge aircraft that will serve as a temporary Air Force One, the service announced May 1. All that’s left now is to finish painting the jet before it starts flying this summer.