Operational control of stateside C-130s and their units switches back from Air Combat Command to Air Mobility Command. The shift also includes C-21 Learjets. The C-130s and C-21s in the Pacific and Europe remain under control of PACAF and USAFE.
Defense industry leaders say the Air Force needs to be able to update the software on its munitions multiple times a day, not every few months, and a new Pentagon instruction released last week could enable that.
