The head of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Maj. Gen. Tom Owen, said that the Georgia ALC will become one of five Air Force regional contracting centers. During a ceremony at Macon State College on Oct. 5, marking the start of a collaboration to provide business students with government contracting courses, Owens said the WRALC would be gaining 385 contracting professionals. Gene Rector of The Telegraph reports that the Warner Robins activity would consolidate “base-level” contracting actions for 11 Air Force bases in the southeast. Other regional centers are slated for Colorado, Virginia, Missouri, and Texas.
The Air Force has asked industry to submit papers on concepts and technologies underlying a new generation of small, highly stealthy and flexible ground attack munition, called the Global Precision Attack Weapon. The GPAW is supposed to be effective against hard and deeply-buried targets. The Broad agency Announcement suggested the…