Ogden Air Logistics Center technicians with the 574th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Hill AFB, Utah, have won the Shingo Silver Medallion for 2007 in the public sector category. Bill Orndorff reports that the squadron received the award for its innovative work and cost reduction efforts on A-10 and F-16 aircraft. The award committee reviewed three years’ worth of initiatives, comparing 2004 operations to the present.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.
