The Air Force’s Force Protection Battlelab has created a prototype device—the simplified automated ventilator, or SAVe—to aid medics in the field. A medic in the field can quickly set up the portable battery-powered ventilator to help one wounded troop breathe, while the medic tends to another life-threatening injury. The new battlefield medical device is just one of several the battlelab, based at Lackland AFB, Tex., has produced or has in the works. Read more here.
When the Air Force sets a new program baseline for the B-52 re-engining this fall, there will be “some” cost increase, because the project wasn't previously fully funded, and the Air Force has a better handle on actual supplier costs and knowledge from ground testing, program officials said.