The Los Angeles Times profiles an effort by servicemembers and an anthropologist to excavate the site of an April 9, 1944, crash of a B-24D Liberator in Mojave, Calif.—a crash that claimed all 10 Army Air Forces crew members. Amateur archeologists uncovered the first remains from the site in 2005. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, wrapped up its investigation last month, sending the commingled remains to their lab for the identification process.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
