The Air Force Sergeants Association tapped SSgt. Yusef Saad, a native of Puerto Rico and a mobile fuels shift supervisor with the 347th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Moody AFB, Ga., for its First Term Airman of the Year award.
The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of its commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February—part of a larger project to quickly increase the cadence of the Pentagon’s hypersonic flight testing and field advanced, high-speed systems and components at scale.



