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.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth foot-stomped the Pentagon's push for acquisition speed and contractor accountability in a Jan. 12 speech at Lockheed Martin’s production hub in Fort Worth, Texas—the heart of the department’s biggest acquisition program, the F-35.
