A group of 29 civic leaders recently spent four days traveling to sites in Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to see firsthand border issues and airspace defense challenges facing NORAD and US Northern Command today. NORAD/NORTHCOM Spokesman Mike Perini said it was a tour designed to focus on “critical mission sets.” The group included many who hold public service and homeland security positions in various states.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.
