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A federal spending watchdog agency says the Department of Defense must do better at estimating the cost of military construction projects, some of which have had contracts awarded as much as 30 percent higher than expected.
The first construction starts this spring in what's expected to be half a billion dollars' worth of work to get Eielson Air Force Base ready for its new F-35 fighter jets.
Lt. Col. Benjamin Doyle assumed command of the 168th Operations Support Squadron on Thursday at Eielson Air Force Wing, according to a news release from the Air Guard.
A plane went missing in Alaska Wednesday morning, and a search is underway for the aircraft, which was carrying four people from Port Alsworth to Anchorage. The small airplane, described by Alaska Dispatch News as a Piper PA-28 Cherokee, departed about 10:30 a.m. The plane, though did not arrive to its destination at Merrill Field, said Clint Johnson, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, according to KTVA .