AFCEC LEADS BEDDOWN EFFORTS FOR B-21 RAIDER STEALTH BOMBER

摘要

The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is leading a large-scale, multi-year facilities construction project to deliver the infrastructure needed to support the beddown of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, the future backbone of the Air Force bomber fleet. The B-21 will incrementally replace the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit to perform both conventional and nuclear missions alongside the B-52 Stratofortress. As the Air Force transitions to a two-bomber fleet, the strategy to beddown the new bomber has been to minimize operational impacts, maximize reuse of existing facilities and reduce overhead as much as possible. "Maintaining the lethality and readiness of Air and Space Forces’ requires continuous sustainment and modernization of mission-critical infrastructure," said Col. Dave Norton, deputy director of AFCEC’s Facility Engineering Directorate. "AFCEC partners with the Department of the Air Force to deliver resilient and sustainable infrastructure solutions required to successfully accomplish missions of national defense."