Sonny Perdue, governor of Georgia, announced Tuesday that his state and the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins AFB, Ga., have entered into the state’s “first formal research and development partnership with the United States Air Force.” Overseeing the Cooperative R&D Agreement will be the Georgia Aerospace Innovation Center in Warner Robins, Ga., and the WRALC’s Engineering Directorate. The Georgia AIC plans to enlist private companies to work with University System of Georgia researchers and the Air Force to “help solve specific technological challenges.”
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
