Munitions gets new chief

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – Col. Kenneth Echternacht was installed Thursday as the new chief of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Munitions Directorate. He’ll be in charge of more than 500 personnel. The directorate performs research on precision guidance, missile guidance and control, computational mechanics, smart sub-munitions, warheads and explosives. Echternacht, who worked at the lab from 1996 to 2000, was most recently chief of the Air Force Science and Technology Division under the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition. (Source: Northwest Florida Daily News, 06/24/09)