The Air Force awarded Rockwell Collins an $83 million contract to modify, integrate, and support the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System, according to a release. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Rockwell Collins will design, develop, and test system and block upgrades of the instrumentation, which is used to collect data and evaluate systems at test ranges. Work will be performed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is expected to be completed by April 18, 2021. Rockwell won the rights to upgrade the instrumentation used at the Air Force, Army, and Navy test ranges in August 2010. (See also Ranges and Readiness from the April 2016 issue of Air Force Magazine.)
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. still “believes” in his mantra of “Accelerate Change or Lose”—and indicated the doctrinal changes it produced when he was Air Force Chief of Staff played a role in the service’s recent response to Iran’s aerial assault on Israel, he…