The Alaska Air National Guard has been leading search and rescue efforts to locate a civilian medical helicopter that disappeared Dec. 3. The search team focused on an area about 75 miles southeast of Anchorage and, according to the Anchorage Daily News, on Saturday, found the body of a flight nurse and wreckage of the aircraft in Prince William Sound. The Alaska Air Guard’s 176th Wing led the search, employing HH-60 Pave Hawk and HC-130 aircraft, along with Coast Guard aircraft.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems Inc. and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems matching $17.7 million contracts for an "Off-Board Sensing Station,” which is an unmanned aircraft that would extend a manned fighter’s sensing range and also potentially carry additional weapons for that aircraft. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts…