Maj. Gen. Mark Brown, who currently serves as director of financial management for Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, has been selected to serve as commander of 2nd Air Force, Air Education and Training Command at Keesler AFB, Miss. He will replace Maj. Gen. Leonard Patrick, who has held the position since July 2011. Patrick has been selected to serve as vice commander of Headquarters Air Education and Training Command at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, announced the Air Force on May 15.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…