Air Force Special Operations Command will host a Warrior CARE Summit in April for wounded, injured, or ill Active Duty members and their families. The event, which will take place near Hurlburt Field, Fla., is intended to “build support” for AFSOC’s wounded warrior community, said Li?sa Dunaway, AFSOC Warrior CARE (Connection, Awareness, Resources, Endurance) program manager, in a release. “We have an amazing team of people who are looking at the heart of the challenges our airmen and families may be facing,” said Dunaway. “AFSOC wants to give back to them—for the sacrifices they endured not only physically or mentally, but as a family.” Space is limited to 50 Active Duty members, according to the release.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…