According to the Harwich Oracle, Air Force Space Command maintains that the turbines of a proposed wind farm on Nantucket Sound would not affect its PAVE PAWS phased-array warning radar station in Sagamore. The command issued a decision in 2004 stating that the 130 wind turbines would not affect the PAVE PAWS, operated by the 6th Space Warning Squadron at Cape Cod AFS, Mass. Last year, however, Congress asked AFSPC to go over its findings again. Lt. Col. Christopher Gentry, 6th SWS commander, said Space Command officials “stand by their original position.”
The emphasis on speed in the Pentagon’s newly unveiled slate of acquisition reforms may come with increased near-term cost increases, analysts say. But according to U.S. defense officials, the new weapons-buying construct provides the military with enough flexibility to prevent runaway budget overruns in major programs.
