Air Force Special Operations Command asked Air Force Materiel Command after the 2004 hurricane season to help it create an online emergency operations site. It had found that some 12,500 personnel overtaxed the single toll-free phone number for Hurlburt AFB, Fla., AFMC produced what it terms AFSOC’s Community of Practice (COP), using a collaborative Web system known as Air Force Knowledge Now. During the 2005 hurricane season, COP provided 24/7 access to evacuation and return notices and information about provisions, power outages, road closings. AFSOC officials call it “invaluable.”
The Space Development Agency wants to wrap up its Tranche 1 launch campaign by the end of spring 2027, flying six more batches of satellites to build out its tracking and data transport constellations, according to Director Gurpartap Sandhoo.
