The Air Force has inactivated the Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Battlelab at Langley AFB, Va., after some 10 years of operation. As we reported earlier this year, the Air Force decided to close all seven of its battlelabs because of overall money woes. All seven are due to close by Oct. 1.
A combined Navy and Air Force program is seeking to build a smaller version of a ubiquitous air-to-air missile that could give advanced aircraft, such as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, greater magazine depth in a high-end fight.