Boeing evaluated a new interphone system on the B-52 during a six-hour flight from Edwards AFB, Calif., the company announced. Part of the Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) upgrade, “the successful interphone evaluation keeps the CONECT team on track to complete our ground and flight tests by the end of October,” stated Scot Oathout, Boeing’s B-52 CONECT program director. The CONECT program is a multi-year effort to retrofit the B-52 cockpit with moving color maps and flight data displays as well new data links. The Aug. 3 flight cleared the way for formal testing of the voice-communication element which allows the flight crew to communicate with one another, as well as other aircraft and ground units, according to Boeing.
The Defense Department hasn’t seen an increase in domestic violence reports among military families since the new coronavirus crisis began, despite the COVID-19 pandemic reportedly causing a spike in such activity across the globe, the head of the Pentagon’s Office of Military Family Readiness Policy told reporters Oct. 29. However,…