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.
An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter teamed up with a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger drone in a recent test to refine the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft concept, the company said in a May 27 statement.