The Total Force C-17 team at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, has received the second of its new C-17 airlifters. It was flown to Hawaii from the Boeing production plant in Long Beach, Calif., on Feb. 21. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports that some 30 civic leaders from Hawaii made the flight aboard the C-17. (Note to Star-Bulletin: Nice article, but the C-17 is a strategic cargo plane.)
The Navy should complete the business cases for its proposed alternatives to GPS navigation so that Congress can properly oversee and fund the programs, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. The Air Force’s business-case documents for its Resilient-Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System (R-EGI), on the other…