Lt. Gen. Robert McMurry took command of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, on May 2. McMurry previously served as the commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory and received his third star before assuming the position. McMurry replaces Lt. Gen. John Thompson, who was selected to be the commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…