On 28 March 2023, during the 363d Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Wing Commander’s Leadership Summit, at Virginia’s Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Master Sergeant Zachary Cooper was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his valor and comportment in the face of enemy fire. The decoration was presented to Cooper by General Mark Kelly.
ICARUS Devices—a Wisconsin-based start-up founded by Nick Sinopoli in the wake of a friend’s aviation-related death—announced the U.S. Army has issued an Airworthiness Release authorizing use of the company’s Instrument Conditions Awareness, Recognition, and Understanding System (ICARUS) Device throughout the entirety of the service’s LUH-72A Lakota fleet.
First Block Upgrade Already in Pipeline for Newest Addition to Tanker Fleet
Boeing has been granted the contract for a Block 1 upgrade for the KC-46A to the tune of $184 million, an upgrade that will provide the Pegasus with a qualitative improvement in secure communications. The Air Force has already lauded the KC-46 program for delivering a next-generation, secure platform for fleet support, but Block 1 will add even more robust comms systems to bolster the tanker’s survivability in contested environments.
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