Lt. Col. Steve Bowen at Spangdahlem AB, Germany, reached a milestone 3,000 flying hours in the F-16 Viper earlier this week. It took him 15.5 years. Bowen currently serves as commander of the 52nd Operational Support Squadron at Spangdahlem.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
