A team of 28 airmen and soldiers from Joint Task Force-Bravo in Honduras spent two days providing medical care to residents of Costa Rica. • Air Force Research Lab is teaming with several contractors for ground experiments under a program called Future-responsive Access to Space Technologies, or FAST, which AFRL expects to develop mature technologies that may lead to future reusable high-speed air and space vehicles. • USAF has ceded two concept demonstration Global Hawks to NASA for Earth-monitoring research activities slated to begin in 2009. • Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee has concluded altitude qualification testing on an XF7-10 engine meant to power Japan’s new maritime patrol aircraft.
Lockheed Martin projects more than a billion dollars of losses on a classified program, but company officials said April 23 they are confident it will turn profitable by 2028 and become a "franchise" system in the U.S. military.