Air Force Vendors Look for 'Head Start'.

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* Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall took a spin around the exhibition hall at the Air and Space Forces Association's annual confab and liked what he saw. And that was a lot of vendors who were spending their own funding to develop technologies for the service.

The Air Force has defined what problems need to be solved "and that gave industry some information that they could use to make their own investments. And I think they've reacted to that," he told reporters.

"What I've told the industry repeatedly is I...