The President has nominated Lt. Gen. Roger Brady to take charge of US Air Forces in Europe, replacing Gen. Tom Hobbins, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Brady, who has served as the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for personnel since June 2004, is a command pilot who flew both the KC-135 and C-5. He has served in various staff and command assignments, including stints at USAFE when he headed logistics and plans and programs. If confirmed, he would receive a fourth star.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.