The 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia runs an around-the-clock operation to generate combat sorties for the war on terror, reports SrA. Erik Hofmeyer. Whether the work is building bombs or loading cargo aircraft, or maintaining the much-in-demand RC-135 Rivet Joint, the airmen deployed from various bases to this forward location are employed in shifts 24-hours per day in an unending cycle.
The Space Force’s recent contract to Muon Space to repurpose their commercial weather satellites for military use will inform a broader “data-as-a-service” strategy for its space-based environmental monitoring mission.
