According to an Air Combat Command release, the first of USAF’s new regional acquisition centers went online Jan. 1. The San Antonio-base center will handle contracting actions for the southwest region, one of five regional centers USAF intends to establish. According to ACC contracting chief, Col. David Glowacki, the action will reduce the size of individual contracting squadrons at bases by half or more. He said that those wing-level contracting forces that remain will “provide business advisory support for the installation and help them develop requirements and get those requirements into that [regional] system.”
New approaches to testing Space Force equipment are speeding up delivery to operators, but the service needs more testers and perhaps its own space-focused test center, officials said April 1. Those are key pieces of the fledgling force’s testing methods and future moves that will keep new technology flowing into…