Air Force officials and dignitaries dedicated the Gen. Bernard A. Schriever Wall of Honor at Los Angeles AFB, Calif. The wall honors space pioneers. During the June 19 ceremony, Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, newly minted commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, along with Thomas Taverney, chairman of AFA’s General Schriever Chapter, unveiled the names of the wall’s 2014 inductees: Karel Jan Bossart, rocket designer; Ivan Alexander Getting, instrumental in the creation of the Global Positioning System; retired Brig. Gen. William King; retired Col. Frederic C.E. Oder; Simon Ramo; and retired Maj. Gen. Osmond Jay Ritland. (Los Angeles report by Joe Juarez) (For more on the unveiling, see SMC’s Facebook page.)
Anduril and General Atomics will develop their Collaborative Combat Aircraft for the Air Force, beating out Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, the service announced on April 24. But any of the non-selected companies can compete to actually manufacture the eventual design, the Air Force said.