
Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) said on Monday that it has completed another step in engineering and manufacturing development of the U.S. Air Force's planned survivable airborne operations center (SAOC) by transferring a Korean Air 747-8i aircraft from SNC's Aviation Innovation and Technology Center (AITC) in Dayton, Ohio, to Wichita State University’s National Institute of Aviation Research (NIAR) in Wichita, Kan. "SNC has strategically partnered with Wichita State University’s NIAR team to capitalize on its globally recognized expertise in the most…