Lt. Col. Craig Hall, deputy commander of the 325th Maintenance Group, Tyndall AFB, Fla., was awarded the Bronze Star medal. Hall served as commander of the 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in Southwest Asia where he helped set up an organizational structure and buildings to sustain operations at a bare base. Overall his team directed the generation of more than 21,000 combat sorties and 75,000 flying hours with six different weapon systems in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
The Space Force is looking for industry feedback on its plans to create a new “Mission Development Zone” at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., to support launch providers with space for additional payload processing capacity, test and assembly facilities, and potentially rocket and spacecraft manufacturing infrastructure.