The announcement of the Air Force’s selection for the permanent location of its new Cyber Command could extend beyond the end of the year, according to the service’s installations, environment, and logistics chief William Anderson. He doesn’t believe the Air Force will have narrowed the list of 16 or so potential locations to its short list of four or five “probably until the end of the year, if we want to do this right. Although Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a budget hearing last week that he expects to name the spot in December, Anderson may be closer to the action. At a House Armed Services readiness panel hearing on Feb. 28, Anderson said, “We are going to take this step by step, making sure that we give the communities adequate time to talk to us.” He added that he planned to send a letter out this month to alert governors that the Air Force would be issuing a “call for information … somewhere in early May” and that he expected to have the information “back in the July timeframe.” Service teams would visit the various locales in the summer and fall, he said. The “wickering down” to the short list, Anderson estimated, wouldn’t happen until “February or March of 2009.”
Air Force Conducts Test Launch of Minuteman III ICBM
May 21, 2025
The Air Force tested an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif,. at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time May. 21. The successful test saw the missile equipped with a single reentry vehicle travel more than 4,200 miles to strike a test site near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall…