Air traffic control apprentice SrA. Joshua Matias is the 2006 winner of the Air Traffic Control Association’s Lingiam Odems Memorial Award. Currently deployed to the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron at Balad AB, Iraq, for the second time, Matias actually got the award for the work he did on his first deployment to Balad, from May through September 2005.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.

