The Air Force is still in the proverbial doghouse over its use of BRAC 2005 to introduce its Total Force realignment plans for the Air National Guard. The issue so inflamed state and national officials that Congress asked the GAO to review just how effective (or ineffective) the service was in working with the “stakeholders.” What the GAO found, documented in a recent report, was a mixed bag. USAF consulted the ANG leadership, leaving it up to them to “represent the states’ perspectives,” said the GAO. Even some elements within the active Air Force felt left out of the process, noted the report. The Congressional watchdog agency also claims USAF “lacks a fully developed management framework to guide the process and evaluate the results.”
The Air Force kicked off one of its biggest exercises this week with the latest edition of Bamboo Eagle, featuring combined virtual and live training scenarios focused on test the command-and-control “nervous system” leaders need to operate on a complex joint battlefield spread over vast distances.
