U.S. Air Force Is Planning Something Big in the Nevada Desert. Unusually worded, multi-billion dollar drone services contract possibly points to a new, shadowy unmanned aircraft—and a lot of them.

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U.S. Air Force Is Planning Something Big in the Nevada Desert
Unusually worded, multi-billion dollar drone services contract possibly points to a new, shadowy unmanned aircraft—and a lot of them.
By Joseph TrevithickApril 10, 2017
 

In June 2016, The War Zone’s own Tyler Rogoway wrote an extensive and thought-provoking analysis of why the U.S. Air Force either had yet to show off a fleet of advanced, combat-capable unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAV), or didn’t have any at all. It’s a long but worthwhile read, especially since the service has just announced a massive and shadowy drone-related contract for work out in the Nevada desert.

On April 6, 2017, as part of the Pentagon’s daily announcement of any contract awards worth over $7 million, the Air Force revealed a deal with URS Federal Services, Inc. for nearly two decades of work regarding unmanned aircraft. The official details are unusual, so feel free to read them yourself:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9102/u-s-air-force-is-planning-something-big-in-the-nevada-desert

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When the 37th TFW was moved to Holloman in the early 90s a year or so after Desert Storm, the hangars and many of the facilities were stripped of anything useful.

There are quite a few hangars in serious disrepair from the past 20+ years of neglect and the work to get the facilities useful again would be significant.

But it appears that my old "home" is about to rise from the ashes, just as many of us always speculated it would.