The 50th Operations Group at Schriever AFB, Colo., has demonstrated a new means to provide GPS data to tactical units every 15 minutes to aid in predicting dilution of precise position data; the GPS Readily Available Navigation Datalink, or GRAND, enables warfighters to receive the data via Milstar communication satellites. • The Lompoc Record reports that fencing and signs are to be installed along the public trail that takes hikers along Vandenberg AFB, Calif., to Point Sal Beach to keep them from straying onto federal land; the base and state reached an agreement last month, reopening the beach to hikers and bikers after the baseprohibited access last year because of safety concerns, particularly during launches. • Richard Frazier, one of the Civil Air Patrol’s new Volunteer Support to the Air Force participants, provided videotaping service to record the 309th Fighter Squadron change of command at Luke AFB, Ariz.; CAP began VSAP as a pilot program at two other bases earlier this year.
House, Senate Unveil Competing Proposals for 2026 Budget
July 11, 2025
Lawmakers from the House and Senate laid out competing versions of the annual defense policy bill on July 11, with vastly different potential outcomes for some of the Air Force’s most embattled programs.