The Air Force Association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium runs March 1-3, in Orlando, Fla. It features a range of speakers, including acting Air Force Secretary Lisa Disbrow, Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, leaders of the service’s major commands, and other aviation and aerospace experts. The theme of this year’s conference is “C2 and fusion warfare.” For up-to-date information from AFA about the conference, click here. Track the conference on social media by following us on Twitter and Facebook or by using #AWS17.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…