US Air Force officials are working with counterparts in Singapore, who want to bring up to 10 F-15s of the Singapore Air Force to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, to establish a training squadron. Any such addition to a US base requires an environmental impact study, which Maj. Damien Pickart, Mountain Home public affairs chief, says should be complete in March. Mountain Home is shedding its F-16s and F-15Cs and picking up F-15Es from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, courtesy of BRAC 2005.
The nation needs a better-coordinated policy for dealing with unmanned aerial systems that threaten domestic bases, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. James C. Slife told a panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He and Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante co-chair a panel looking at counter-UAS…