Thousands of Guard and Reserve members need to hustle to meet a Sept. 30 deadline for enrolling in the newly restructured Tricare Reserve Select health care plan. There will be no automatic rollover into the new plan for current Tricare members, according to a Tricare Management Activity release. As of early September, just 15 percent of the 11,000 reservists currently under Tricare had submitted the mandatory request forms to regional contractors.
Anduril and General Atomics will develop their Collaborative Combat Aircraft for the Air Force, beating out Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, the service announced on April 24. But any of the non-selected companies can compete to actually manufacture the eventual design, the Air Force said.