USAF has awarded MTC Technologies, a Dayton, Ohio, a $13.8 million contract to provide and sustain visual threat recognition and avoidance training devices for active duty, Air Guard, and Reserve aircrews to help them recognize and respond to a variety of anti-aircraft threats. MTC’s San Antonio-based training and technology division will manage the one-year contract, which comes with two option years.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3