Boeing issued a news release last week to ensure the Air Force knows the company plans to “compete aggressively” to be able to continue working KC-135 and KC-10 maintenance, repair, overhaul, and logistics in San Antonio, at the site of the old San Antonio Air Logistics Center. The news statement says Boeing is “taking nothing for granted,” even though it is the incumbent and performing “very well.”
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.
