Winning the 2007 Commander in Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence within the Air Force is Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. The home of the 366th Fighter Wing Gunfighters is one of five DOD installations to receive the award, which evaluates outstanding and innovative approaches toward facility maintenance and operations. A base release notes that the 366th rolled out several initiatives for a six-person inspection team, including its $60 million Singapore Air Force facility beddown plan and installation of a $1.3 million aircraft hangar high-expansion foam system to increase aircraft protection.
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.