The Air Force plans to shed more than half its active duty force of 74 C-21 executive jet transports to aid its cost cutting efforts, reports Stars and Stripes. Some Air National Guard units—like North Dakota’s 119th Fighter Wing—will pick up C-21s, while others will go to the boneyard, formally the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, at Davis Monthan AFB, Ariz. The Air Force will send one or more to its Flight Standards Agency in Oklahoma to replace one that crashed last year.
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center wants a contractor to serve as integrator for all the software sustainment of current and future upgrades to the growing KC-46 Pegasus tanker fleet.