North Dakota lawmakers are happy campers following the visit of Gen. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff, to Grand Forks AFB, N.D., on Tuesday and one day later the word that a site review team is on the way. According to a joint statement, Moseley told the lawmakers that he considers Grand Forks “a top candidate for a future tanker mission.” The base already will get an unmanned aerial vehicle mission, but Sen. Kent Conrad, Sen. Byron Dorgan, and Rep. Earl Pomeroy hoped for more. Dorgan said, “I had little doubt that General Moseley would be impressed by a firsthand look at Grand Forks.” Gen. Duncan McNabb, head of Air Mobility Command, notified the Congressional delegation Wednesday that he would send a five-person team to survey the base’s infrastructure from March 26 to March 30.
As Air Force leaders consider concepts of operations for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, sustainment in the field—and easing that support by using standard parts and limiting variants—should be a key consideration, according to a new study from AFA's Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Studies.