The new chairman of the Air Combat Command Commander’s Group, comprising 21 key community representatives, is the representative from the military liaison committee for Beale AFB, Calif. Ron Bartoli is the president of the Beale committee and has been active in the push to get the Air Force to locate its new Cyber Command in California, specifically at Beale. The Appeal-Democrat reports that Bartoli says his election to the chair will give him “a little bigger voice.” The Air Force has put its provisional Cyber Command headquarters at Barksdale AFB, La., but that’s not the last word.
The Space Development Agency added 21 satellites to its nascent data transport network in an Oct. 15 launch, the second mission in a 10-month campaign to field 154 operational spacecraft.
