Air Force Materiel Command has merged two headquarters directorates into the Directorate of Air, Space, and Cyberspace Operations in an effort to better conform its operations to the Air Force’s multi-domain strategic vision and to the strengthened focus on cyberspace. The new directorate’s mission is to provide world-class test and evaluation expertise along with integrated, multi-domain operations strategy, governance, and enabling capabilities command-wide for the delivery and support of agile war-winning capabilities, the command said. “For AFMC, this merger is about providing 21st century integrated lifecycle management support to the warfighter,” Brig. Gen. John Shapland, director of the new organization, said in a release. The merger, effective July 1, combines the former directorates of Air, Space, and Information Operations and of Communications. It has four divisions that include Test & Evaluation, Assurance, Current Operations, and Standardization/Evaluations. The merger is also aligned with the Air Force’s Future Operating Concept, Shapland said. “It focuses on enabling cyber effects within its new domain and across all the others.” Under the Future Operating Concept, released last September, space and cyber capabilities are critical components to the service’s “integrated multi-domain operations.”
NASA Boss: Race to Moon Has National Security Stakes
Sept. 15, 2026
NASA is pushing hard to get astronauts back to the moon by 2028—and the urgency is driven in no small part by the national security implications of doing so before China does, Administrator Jared Isaacman said Sept. 15.
