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KC-46 on Boeing factory floor
WASHINGTON: A key House Armed Services Committee member yesterday vowed to use the 2022 defense authorization to address the Air Force’s “embarrassing” contract with Boeing for the troubled KC-46 tanker as the head of Transportation Command suggested Pegasus fielding may face yet more delay.
“In my estimation, the overall procurement of this ‘
commercial’ aircraft, and the penalty built into the contract requiring minimum orders of deficient airplanes, is at best procurement malpractice, or at worst an illegal binding of Congress requiring annual procurements,” Rep. Rob Wittman, ranking member of the HASC seapower and projection forces subcommittee, told a joint hearing with the HASC readiness subcommittee.
Joseph Maguire. A copy of the unclassified letter was obtained by Inside the Ring.
The letter urged the DNI to use intelligence to counter enemy coercion and subversion and help the American military “win without fighting” by engaging in similar gray zone warfare against China and Russia.
Specifically, the commanders asked for “ammunition in the ongoing war of narratives” by releasing intelligence that the military can use publicly.
“The main battlespace for this struggle is largely in the public domain,” says the letter, organized by then-Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm.
Philip S. Davidson. “Therefore we request a significantly upgraded effort to routinely inject intelligence derivatives into that arena.”
The Hunter’s most senior police officer will retire today, calling time on a 40 year career.
Assistant Commissioner Max Mitchell will march out of Newcastle Police Station to a guard of honour this afternoon.
Growing up in Charlestown, Assistant Commissioner Mitchell joined the force in 1981.
Since then he has climbed the ranks and will retire as commander of the Northern Region, which stretches from the Central Coast to Tweed Heads.
He was instrumental in the formation of the Transport Command and led a group of NSW officers on a mission to Christchurch after the deadly 2011 earthquake.
There will be changed traffic and parking conditions on Church Street, outside Newcastle Police Station, on Thursday while the retirement celebrations take place.
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