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Article: AIR FORCE OFFICIALS UNVEIL NEW STRATEGIC BASING PROCESS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following press release:
Senior Air Force officials have applied a new basing process to more than 200 sites for training and operational basing of the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter aircraft.
In fall 2008, Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz sought to redefine how Air Force experts make basing decisions. The new basing process was put into practice as they prepare to base up to 1,763 planes between now and 2035.
"We created a process that was deliberate, repeatable and transparent with defined roles and responsibilities," said Kathleen Ferguson, deputy assistant secretary of ...