Air Forces Central announced March 15 that an airman working with a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, was killed that day by an improvised explosive device. The name of the airman is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification and release by Department of Defense officials.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.

