Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh has tapped Maj. Gen. Kurt Neubauer to serve as the Air Force chief of safety and commander of the Air Force Safety Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Neubauer currently serves as the vice commander of 7th Air Force, Pacific Air Forces and chief of staff of the Air Component Command at Osan AB, South Korea. He will replace Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward who has held the post since September 2012. Woodward will become the new head of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault and Prevention office.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.