Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner Jr., Air Force Reserve chief, said Tuesday he is relocating next month from the Washington, D.C., area where he has maintained a headquarters to Robins AFB, Ga., home of Air Force Reserve Command, the major command that he also heads. “That doesn’t mean anything goes away up here” in terms of his responsibilities as the Reserve chief, he told attendees at AFA’s 2009 Air & Space Conference. Rather, it’s just the desire to collocate the AFRC commander at the major command headquarters.
Bell Textron has won DARPA's contest for a no-runway, high-speed drone that will prove out technologies useful for special operations forces and possibly the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment concept. Bell's design converts a tiltrotor to a jet-powered aircraft able to fly at up to 450 knots.