The Air Force’s announcement that it planned to shift some 170 civilian personnel positions from four Air Force Materiel Command bases has caught by surprise folks at one of the affected bases, reports the Macon Telegraph. Mike O’Hara, the civilian personnel director at Robins AFB, Ga., told the newspaper that the Air Force has failed to follow through on commitments it made to lawmakers and to Air Force civilian employees. One thing the service promised was a steering group to determine the type of position that could be eliminated. O’Hara asserted that no such group has met.
The new Cyber Force Generation plan for the U.S. military announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a brief email last week seeks to give U.S. Cyber Command more authority over the employment, training and equipping of U.S. troops preparing for and waging cyber war. Former Air Force officers and national security…
