The Air Force has inactivated the Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Battlelab at Langley AFB, Va., after some 10 years of operation. As we reported earlier this year, the Air Force decided to close all seven of its battlelabs because of overall money woes. All seven are due to close by Oct. 1.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China-focused military briefing Oct. 27, part of a biweekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonic weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…