A year ago this week, the process of privatizing base housing at Hanscom AFB, Mass., began, and is now moving on to the next phase, which includes demolishing the first 80 of the base’s unoccupied old housing units to make way for new houses. American Eagle Communities, which took over ownership and management of Hanscom housing, expects to begin the next phase by December 1, according to Hanscom officials. The company plans to build a total of 784 new homes under the base’s housing initiative.
While the Pentagon is halfway through its review of the Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program in the wake of “critical” cost and schedule overruns, the service has declared a similar issue for the helicopters meant to provide security and transport across those ICBM fields. The Air Force recently…