The Air Force took home three of nine 2005 Secretary of Defense Award Environmental Awards recently. Dyess AFB, Tex., won for environmental quality team efforts, with Tinker AFB, Okla., winning an installation-wide award for pollution prevention, and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, winning for its C-17 pollution prevention integrated product team. The winners will be honored at the Pentagon on May 3.
Lockheed Martin’s proposed autonomous drone, called Vectis, is still on track to fly a prototype by the end of 2027, an official from the company’s Skunk Works division said Sept. 10, and the firm already started work on four more Vectis aircraft.
