The Global Cyberspace Integration Center at Langley AFB, Va., is getting ready to field the Theater Battle Management Core System Service Pack 7. This “critical system upgrade” will enable TBMCS, at USAF’s Falconer air and space operations centers, to automatically interface with Air Mobility Command’s Global Decision Support System 2, providing air mobility fleet data to combat air forces, reports Capt. Larry van der Oord.
Three of four congressional committees with influence over defense policy have voted to change the official name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War—but final approval of the Pentagon rebrand is months away and not yet assured.