The Maryland Air National Guard broke ground on a new $11.8 million headquarters building for the 175th Wing at Warfield ANG Base in Middle River, northeast of Baltimore. The new facility will consolidate personnel from the wing staff, mission support group, and medical group under the same “green” roof, according to the wing’s Oct. 9 release. The 31,500-square-foot building will include office space, a command section, medical clinic, and training classrooms. When it is complete “we’ll have what we need to be good stewards of the community and the environment,” said Brig. Gen. Allyson Solomon, Maryland’s assistant adjutant general-air. The ground-breaking ceremony took place on Oct. 2. Wing officials anticipate that the building will be completed by June 2014. (Warfield report by 2nd Lt. Jessica Donnelly)
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…