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.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
