The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron environmental restoration staff at Dover AFB, Del., has won the 2006 Air Force General Thomas D. White Environmental Restoration Award, which honors the installation with the best restoration program. The Dover staff managed to provide a remedy-in-place six years ahead of the base goal to remediate 59 locations where contaminants historically had leaked into the environment.
The KC-Z4, a blended wing body tanker concept being developed by startup JetZero, could fuel larger groups of aircraft at longer range to hold more targets at risk, company officials say.