Now There’s a Flight Screening Award: We were a bit premature with our earlier report that Air Education and Training Command had awarded its initial flight-screening contract to Doss Aviation of Colorado Springs, Colo. First, the award had to clear environmental hurdles. That is done, says AETC. Doss gets to keep the 10-year $178 million contract and, for that, will evaluate Air Force candidates for pilot or combat systems officer (read our 2005 article on the new CSO here) training. Operations at the Doss primary facility in Pueblo, Colo., should begin in October.
The Pentagon fulfilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's promise to slash the number of Religious Affiliation Codes used by the military to track the volume of members adhering to different religions and to shape the chaplain corps to support them. The change reduces the number of religions counted for such purposes…