Calibrating measuring devices in a lab may not sound exciting, but when you’re talking about ensuring hospital equipment, test equipment, and aircraft instrument test sets function properly, it’s an indispensable part of forward operations. Which is why the precision measurement equipment laboratory’s claim of being the only 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron workgroup that serves the entire AOR in Southwest Asia carries weight. The team, which covers 201 work centers within eight countries, has seen its monthly workload increase within the past six months by 1,200 items.
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.