The Air National Guard-run 1st Air Force formally opened its new 37,000-square foot, $30 million air operations center at Tyndall AFB, Fla., as planned on June 1. The mission of the 601st Air and Space Operations Center—also known as America’s Air Operations Center—is to plan, direct, and assess air and space operations for NORAD and US Northern Command, working both attack and natural disaster operations.
The Air Force has finished modifying and testing the new VC-25B Bridge aircraft that will serve as a temporary Air Force One, the service announced May 1. All that’s left now is to finish painting the jet before it starts flying this summer.