The Government Accountability Office plans to conduct a second review of the trouble-plagued construction of the new Kaiserslautern military community center project at Ramstein AB, Germany. Greg Kutz, GAO’s director of forensic audits and special investigations and lead author of a K-town report released in June, told Stars and Stripes, “The KMCC is clearly a troubled project and there’s no end in sight.” The Air Force Office of Special Investigation has been working with German law enforcement officials to gauge the extent of alleged corruption and mismanagement, and earlier this month the German government offered to extend a loan to the German companies working the project to try to get it moving forward again.
The Air Force wants to spend more than a half billion dollars through 2031 on a new protection system designed for cargo and refueling aircraft that features onboard sensors and weapons to track and take down enemy missiles and drones.