The Air Force says that airmen using CLEP—the College Level Examination Program—and Excelsior exam program to gain college credit without attending class, saved the government some $300,000 this past year. The service doesn’t know how much each airman saved, but the programs save both dollars and time in a classroom. Want to know more, read here.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.


