Col. Timothy Vigil, who is 12th Air Force’s Warfighting Headquarters special assistant, gave his new boss—Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of 12th Air Force—and the head of US Southern Command, Army Gen. John Craddock, a tour of 12th Air Force’s new Combined Air and Space Operations Center at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. The new CAOC, which was originally expected to open this month, is still under construction, but officials expect it to be up and running in November. It will join five other operational “Falconer” centers around the world.
The KC-Z4, a blended wing body tanker concept being developed by startup JetZero, could fuel larger groups of aircraft at longer range to hold more targets at risk, company officials say.