Raytheon says in a June 27 release the Army-Air Force selection group that awarded the Joint Cargo Aircraft program contract to competitor L-3 Communications “either incorrectly measured” or failed to consider “crucial portions” of its proposal offering the C-295 for the new intratheater airlifter program. We reported yesterday that Raytheon had filed a protest on the JCA award selection of the C-27 Spartan. Raytheon also notes that it beat the L-3 price “by more than 15 percent.”
New technologies such as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and remote simulator instruction are helping train Airmen faster and improve graduation rates, according to Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson, the head of Air Education and Training Command. That technology is key to what he calls “the pace of cognition,” where Airmen…