Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announces that Air Force Secretary James Roche has withdrawn his name from contention for the Secretary of the Army position. (Also see July 7, 2003.)
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…