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Lawman, that's a great point that I haven't heard brought up before. Someone else alluded it to it earlier but that spells it out pretty clearly. Anyone know if they solved the spoofing issues? Bandwidth Issues? I did a "research paper" on ADS-B back in '11 for a Riddle class. An aviation enthusiast in mid 2000's found that they could spoof as many "returns" as he wanted with a laptop and some ADS-B equipment. If I remember right, he actually did it and caused some commotion with the controllers. Not knowing whether a blip on a screen is real or fake is a pretty big deal. As for bandwidth, the FAA did some test cases before making ADS-B required/operational in Utah and Alaska. Both reports mention saturation points where information was lost on both ends of the transmission. I also remember Australia coming to the same conclusions and electing to opt out of ADS-B full integration. I know the ADS-B signal shares some frequency space with other commercial frequencies. One of them was an old cell phone frequency band, which might be even less used now, and the other was portable phones. In all the "research" I did, I found it very hard to find anything from the FAA addressing how much traffic a system can handle. It may be a non-issue but if the test cases got overloaded I don't know how the service will handle the entire NAS. I may be way off/old news now, anyone heard talk along these lines?

"A federal budget agreement announced Monday night includes money for the Air Force to award a contract to a Sikorsky Aircraft/Lockheed Martin joint venture to build a new generation of 112 combat search-and-rescue helicopters.The deal includes $333.5 million for the Air Force to approve the project...The Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin proposal calls for the modification and upgrade of the existing H-60M Black Hawk platform." I feel like this is too good to be true. Someone help me come back to reality. Does the "$333.5 million for the Air Force to approve the project" mean the AF can still screw it away or say we don't need them? http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20140113/BUSINESS/301130087/After-budget-deal-Lockheed-Martin-would-share-Air-Force-helicopter-contract

I would hope it is all EPRs of the same grade are due on the same day. That is possible and is how the Navy does it for O's and E's. The Navy's eval system has its idiosyncrasies and work arounds but that part makes sense.

Anyone know where I can find statistics for in-res ACSC selection for a "candidate" (non DE select). I've had them briefed to me before but my AFPC website navigation skills are weak. I'm curious what the selection rate is AAD and no AAD. I know it may be small but I'd still like to know. Thanks