The Air Force has developed a counter-biological warfare concept of operations and an instruction it expects to apply to all its facilities, the culmination of a year’s assessment of the biowar threat posed to Kunsan AB, South Korea. Service officials worked with Kunsan to develop tactics, techniques, and procedures that USAF could apply to all its installations, reports SSgt. Monique Randolph. The result is the CONOPS and Air Force Instruction 10-2604, Disease Containment Planning Guidance, which the Air Force expects all facilities to embrace over the next six months.
The nation needs a better-coordinated policy for dealing with unmanned aerial systems that threaten domestic bases, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. James C. Slife told a panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He and Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante co-chair a panel looking at counter-UAS…