STATE GRANT URGED TO UPGRADE EAFB.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Lancaster officials are seeking a $100,000 state grant to help bring a device for testing jet engines to Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. and strengthen the base's ability to attract new programs and jobs. Lancaster will apply for the grant through the California Defense Retention Grant Program, a program created to better position the state's military bases against future rounds of base closures. The city wants the grant to go toward installing a device called a multi-axis thrust test stand. ``This will further improve base retention prospects as well as enhance economic development opportunities to attract new employers and jobs to Edwards and the region,'' Mark Bozigian, assistant to City Manager Jim Gilley, wrote in a staff report. The federal government is planning to spend $2.4 million to move the test stand from NASA's Ames Research Center near Mountain View in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern to Edwards. The test stand is now in a disassembled state at Ames. State officials are looking at contributing $1.7 million to enhance the test stand, including updating the stand's instrumentation instrumentation, in music: see orchestra and orchestration. instrumentation In technology, the development and use of precise measuring, analysis, and control equipment. . The grant money Lancaster is seeking would go toward planning and design work for the instrumentation. The test stand would allow aircraft that have thrust-vectoring engines - engines that change the direction of an engine's exhaust to enhance maneuvering - to be checked out in conditions that simulate simulate - simulation flight. The test stand could be used by such programs as the joint strike fighter A strike fighter is a fighter aircraft which is also capable of attacking surface targets, including ships. It differs from an attack aircraft in that the aircraft remains a capable fighter. , the F-22 and future unmanned fighter aircraft fighter aircraft Aircraft designed primarily to secure control of essential airspace by destroying enemy aircraft in combat. Designed for high speed and maneuverability, they are armed with weapons capable of striking other aircraft in flight. . |
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