Air Force Materiel Command has folded the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, better known as the Boneyard, into its “operational” reorganization structure, renaming AMARC as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group. The new group, which still will operate at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., falls under the 309th Maintenance Wing at Hill AFB, Utah. According to the Hilltop Times, this is the center’s ninth name change over its 60-year history.
A top Pentagon tech official called on industry this week to help the military develop “lighter, more efficient” directed energy weapons designed to go on aircraft and conduct special operations missions or down drones—areas where the Air Force’s directed energy efforts have been quiet as of late.