Mississippi’s Congressional delegation announces that Key Field Air National Guard Base in Meridian, Miss., home to the 186th Air Refueling Wing, will become USAF’s C-27J schoolhouse. The schoolhouse, expected to be fully operational in 2015, will train pilots, loadmasters, and maintainers.
The Air Force will look to the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in a closed solicitation that will create the Air Force's first university-affiliated research center (UARC), Air Force leaders said. The center will study tactical autonomy. The DAF will select the center's location from one of 11…