AFWERX -- an organization striving to create a "culture of innovation" in the Air Force -- now has the authority to award contracts, setting up the young team for closer partnerships with industry and academia. Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt, head of contracting in the service's acquisition office, recently assigned the hub an "enterprise-level chief of contracting office" through the Air Force Research Lab senior contracting official, Tina Parker, an AFWERX spokeswoman, told Inside Defense on Thursday. "This assignment allows...