The Air Force has developed a counter-biological warfare concept of operations and an instruction it expects to apply to all its facilities, the culmination of a year’s assessment of the biowar threat posed to Kunsan AB, South Korea. Service officials worked with Kunsan to develop tactics, techniques, and procedures that USAF could apply to all its installations, reports SSgt. Monique Randolph. The result is the CONOPS and Air Force Instruction 10-2604, Disease Containment Planning Guidance, which the Air Force expects all facilities to embrace over the next six months.
Boeing received a $2.47 billion Air Force contract Nov. 25 for 15 more KC-46s, bringing to 183 the number of Pegasus tankers on contract to all customers, foreign and domestic. The new contract—for Lot 12 of the initially planned KC-46 buy—is to be completed by 2029.
