The Air Force has decided to put a new Air Force Special Operations Command wing at Cannon AFB, N.M., officials said late Tuesday. Recent speculation had ventured AFSOC as a prime candidate. The move ends the base’s nearly year-long search for a new mission, after BRAC 2005 stripped it of its F-16 mission and put it on life-support through 2009. AFSOC plans to establish its new wing—which will take the appellation 16th Special Operations Wing—by Oct. 1, 2007. The current 16th SOW at Hurlburt Field, Fla., will revert to its former designation as 1st SOW.
Advancements in commercial space technology could make President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense network far more likely to succeed than the failed “Star Wars” strategic umbrella initiative of the 1980s, U.S. Space Command’s top general said May 22....