Active duty airmen and civilians leaving USAF as part of the 40,000 personnel drawdown have a chance to continue an Air Force career by becoming an air reserve technician with Air Force Reserve Command. ARTs work as full-time civilian employees and part-time reservists. Currently, states an AFRC news release, the command has about 10,000 ARTs. Officials could not tell the Daily Report how many openings AFRC has, but a spokesman said there are numerous in all sorts of job categories. AFRC posts openings on a federal job Web site under Announcement 443.
General Atomics, the maker of one of the Air Force’s first Collaborative Combat Aircraft, has ambitious plans for its family of semi-autonomous drones beyond the FQ-42, including a flying-wing aircraft capable of carrying out both reconnaissance and strike missions. Meanwhile, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced a new program to…