The Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, has joined forces with Raytheon that will bring work on the Global Broadcast Systems software to the Utah facility, according to the Hilltop Times. The partnership agreement, reports Mitch Shaw, allows Ogden technicians to maintain GBS software, the first of “several” programs managed by the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., that the ALC expects to acquire.
The Air Force plans to add external weapons pylons on the B-1B bomber, both to increase the number of aircraft that can test hypersonic missiles and expand the Lancer’s loadout as USAF transitions to the B-21 bomber.