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Air Force Directorate Seeks To Streamline Equipment Sustainment

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The Air Force’s Agile Combat Support (ACS) Directorate, which oversees about 400 programs and a $7 billion annual budget, is looking for ways to reduce equipment sustainment demands on its 1,800-person staff so it can focus more on implementing new technology, the organization’s head said Sept. 20.For example, the directorate is merging six bomber armaments testers into a single common tester, and is reducing the number of Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS) configurations to about…

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