Air Force Space Command plans to redesignate one unit and inactivate several organizations today toward redefining 14th Air Force into a new component-numbered air force named 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic-Space). The space C-NAF element gaining a new designation is the 614th Space Operations Group, now called the 614th Air and Space Operations Center. The units being deactivated are the 614th Space Intelligence Group, 614th Space Intelligence Squadron, and 614th Space Operations Squadron. Manpower for these units switches over to the 614th AOC.
The Next-Generation Air Dominance Fighter is Air Combat Command’s top priority, because without it, the Air Force can’t provide the control of the air the whole military depends on to operate, Air Combat Command chief Gen. Mark D. Kelly said. He also named a replacement for the E-3 AWACS, new…