Specialists with the 480th Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconnaissance Wing at Langley AFB, Va., are scheduled on Friday to conclude Sentinel Focus 10A, a five-day review of the Air Force’s distributed common ground system. This scrub was meant to identify areas of optimization in how this global weapon system collects, analyses, and distributes actionable intelligence to ground troops based on overhead imagery collected by manned and unmanned ISR aircraft. Among the focal points, participants examined DCGS’s role in supporting the war in Afghanistan and the ongoing troop surge there, as well as the US military drawdown in Iraq. The initial Sentinel Focus occurred last August. They are scheduled to occur every six months. The Air Force operates five DCGS sites located in California, Hawaii, Virginia, Germany, and South Korea. (Langley release)
The U.S. sent Air Force F-16s over central Syria in a show of force following the Dec. 13 killing of two U.S. Army Soldiers and one American civilian interpreter by a gunman linked to the Islamic State group.
