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.
The cost of the nuclear AGM-181 Long-Range Stand Off missile has come down slightly and the program is on track, but several technologies it relies on are still considered immature, the Government Accountability Office found in a report. Meanwhile, the GAO also assessed the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile as…