The Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., has joined other Air Force Materiel Command entities in moving to a numbered wing organization. Holding a ceremony May 11, ESC officials formally activated the 551st, 350th, 554th, and 653rd Electronic Systems Wings.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
