Orlando, February 18, 2010—NORAD/US Northern Command boss, Gen. Gene Renuart, says a lot of hours and effort are going into expansion of US airspace situational awareness. Command officials recently met with Homeland Security to work on a concept called the “air domain intelligence integration cell”—a concept similar to an Air Force air operations center, but it would fuse data from civilian and law enforcement agencies together with military air operations to form a more coherent picture of air activity for the continental US. He said this data would show the diversity of daily US air traffic and help tie it to intelligence streams that are used to find “tracks of interest” that might pose a threat. The Pentagon and the various intelligence agencies are developing the initiative and will house the cell at NORTHCOM headquarters to get “better vision” into threats from the air domain.
Pentagon Releases Cost of Living, BAH Rates for 2026
Dec. 30, 2025
The Pentagon will pay cost of living allowances to 127,000 service members in the continental U.S. in 2026, an increase of 66,000 members in 2025. Airmen and Guardians across the U.S. will also receive an average increase of 4.2 percent for their Basic Housing Allowance, compared to the 5.4 percent…
