US Transportation Command has put its new Families First program into a “strategic pause,” postponing the February implementation of phase 2 until it can deliver “quality development” of the plan’s “one system, one standard, worldwide Web-based” Defense Personal Property System. Officials say they need time to “create a more efficient program oversight process” and “provide ample time for user training” outside the peak May through September season for household moves. So that must mean they’re looking at next fall
The Air Force on March 12 awarded contract modifications worth a combined $2.4 billion to Boeing to procure an undisclosed number of E-7 Wedgetail as part of the program's engineering and manufacturing development phase and continue work on the airborne battle management aircraft’s radar.