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.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…