Air Mobility Command has selected CMSgt. Joseph E. Barron Jr. as its next command chief. Barron, who will join AMC in April, currently is the Command Chief Master Sergeant. of 2d Air Force at Keesler AFB, Miss. He has served with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and Air Force Recruiting Service, as well as command chief of the Air Warfare Center.
The Pentagon announced new long-term agreements with four defense companies May 13 to develop and produce large numbers of low-cost cruise missiles. And while the effort will focus mostly on the Army to start, it pairs with Air Force efforts to find more affordable munitions.