Air Forces Africa has had to cancel or delay 40 missions this year due to logistical challenges, including manpower shortages. As a result, it seeks volunteers to serve short-term deployments to fill those gaps, reports Stars and Stripes. At the start of Fiscal 2010, the command had 100 events planned for the African theater, but has had to cut those down to about 60 due to these logistical problems and personnel shortages. The Air Force is looking for airmen from a wide variety of career fields who are outside of their Air Expeditionary Force deployment windows, according to the report. (For more on AFAFRICA’s operations and challenges, see Around and Over the Horn from the Air Force Magazine archives.)
General Atomics, the maker of one of the Air Force’s first Collaborative Combat Aircraft, has ambitious plans for its family of semi-autonomous drones beyond the FQ-42, including a flying-wing aircraft capable of carrying out both reconnaissance and strike missions. Meanwhile, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced a new program to…