The new C-40s would supplement executive airlift missions for “Top Five” users — the vice president, first spouse, defense secretary, Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state — who rely on a fleet of C-32 aircraft that can only support 59 percent of Top Five travel requests, the Air Force told Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow and Valerie InsinnaIntegrating commercial off-the-shelf computing on military platforms and how to make it work
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
PENTAGON: When the the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was delayed by a day-and-a-half on his mission to secure the release of the two American hostages in North Korea because his plane wasn’t ready to fly, it sounded like a pretty good story. Combine it with recent problems with Secretary of State John Kerry’s aircraft and…
By Colin Clark
