The US Air Force is settling in to its temporary home at Manas AB, Kyrgyzistan, and the proof is in the continued enhancements USAF is making to the facility. Recently, in-house and contract construction projects have delivered four new fuel bladders, security grates for storm culverts, relocating guard towers to the outer perimeter fence, force protection fencing projects, and a new base support facility, among other projects. Civil engineers with Air and Space Expeditionary Force 7/8 have overseen eight contract projects and are working another 31.
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.
