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They seek to answer questions about how safe, effective, reliable, maintainable, compatible, and logistically supportable new Air Force systems will be. The results of AFOTEC's tests, normally conducted on prototype and pre-production models, play an important role in Air Force and DOD acquisition decisions.
He or she is the primary intelligence adviser to the Secretary of Defense and also answers to the Director of National Intelligence. The Director is also the Commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance , a subordinate command of United States Strategic Command , which is headquartered in ...
Technical drawing of the Fletcher-class destroyer Launch of Fletcher and Radford, 3 May 1942 World War II Destroyer Shipbuilders map from Department of Defense (DoD) The Fletcher class was the first generation of destroyers designed after the series of naval treaties that had limited ship designs heretofore.
USAFSAM is one of the oldest continually operating school for flight surgeons and other operational medical personnel of its kind in the world. USAFSAM is located in Dayton, Ohio at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, [4] and is part of the 711th Human Performance Wing [5] (711 HPW) and the Air Force Research Laboratory [6] (AFRL).
From 1992 until 1994, McDonnell Douglas was the sole supplier of Tomahawks, producing Block II and Block III versions and remanufacturing many Tomahawks to Block III specifications. [12] In 1994, Hughes Aircraft , having purchased General Dynamics' missile division in 1992, outbid McDonnell Douglas to become the sole supplier of Tomahawks.
During his tenure as Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld worked to finish the SALT II Treaty. [16] Rumsfeld, together with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General George S. Brown drafted the treaty. [16] However, an agreement was not made before the 1976 election. SALT II was finished and signed during the Carter administration. [60] [16]
The Battle of Ap Bac in South Vietnam began, and was the first time that Viet Cong forces stood and fought against a major South Vietnamese attack. At the outset, Viet Cong ground fire shot down a United States Army UH-1 attack helicopter and four U.S. Army CH-21 transport helicopters as they arrived at their landing zone.