The Air Force has initiated three new developmental prototyping efforts, one aimed at maturing weather sensor technology, another at informing future close-air support capabilities and a third at demonstrating agile, modular intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance pods. The Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act required the service to update Congress every six months on new weapon system component or technology prototyping efforts. In an Aug. 31 letter to Congress, Service Acquisition Executive Darlene Costello submitted the first of these semiannual...
