The new F-22 Maintenance Training Facility at Sheppard AFB, Tex. is now officially open, reports the Times Record News. As we reported earlier, the new facility will take its first trainee beginning in January. The state-of-the-art center includes F-22 cockpit and forward fuselage and seat and canopy maintenance training simulators designed by the DME Corp.
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.
