The recent news that Boeing will begin shutting down its C-17 production line has left residents around Travis AFB, Calif., a tad nervous. Travis, which earlier this month received its first C-17, is going to be home to 13 of the new airlifters, but area residents wonder if 13 will be enough to secure the squadron at the base. Fairfield (Calif.) Vice Mayor Jack Batson tells News 10 TV, “We’re always worried. … If there were 24 or 25, it would be harder to move.” Right.
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
