Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz plans Friday to fly in the first new C-130J destined for the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess AFB, Tex., reports the Abilene Reporter News. A base spokesman told the newspaper that Dyess expects to receive 28 J model Hercules to replace its older Herks, receiving the last by 2013.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
