The Air Force has contracted with the United Industrial subsidiary AAI Services Corp. to upgrade the T-25 simulator for electronic training (SECT), which it originally developed for the Air Force in the 1990s. AAI will receive $6.9 million to “design, manufacture, and test the electronic warfare officer training system at Randolph AFB, Tex.
Retired Col. Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, known for introducing the "tap code" by which American POWs in North Vietnam could surreptitiously communicate with one another, died July 6. Harris was brutalized by the North Vietnamese over almost eight years of captivity.