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.
Space Systems Command recently awarded Viasat a contract with a $450 million ceiling to design and field a mission operations center for the command’s burgeoning Space Data Network.