The Air Force is placing its services and manpower and personnel career fields under one overarching boss. Officials say there will be no visible change at the base level, since the two functional areas will remain separate. The move is another in the service’s efficiency efforts—the Air Force Smart Operations 21 process improvement program.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
