The Air Force on July 15 unveiled a plan to boost the remotely piloted aircraft mission -- a plan that would, in part, rely on $100 million in reprogrammed funds. A portion of the Defense Department's fiscal year 2015 reprogramming request would allow the Air Force to hire some additional civilian contractors to alleviate the strain on the RPA workforce, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced at a July 15 National Aeronautics Association event. "Even before the last year,...
