The Air Force has tapped Barksdale AFB, La., and McGuire AFB, N.J., to serve as test bases for an energy initiatives pilot program. According to a USAF release, the base’s geographic locations and facilities made them ideal candidates. The service plans to “find the very best energy practices and test them” at the two bases, then migrate the ones that work to the rest of the Air Force.
In Part 2 of a series exploring the Software Acquisition Pathway that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently made mandatory, we look back at how the acquisition reform has its origins in problems with the F-35.