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    RED FLAG Command and Control, ‘Much More Lethal’

    RED FLAG (RF) joint/coalition exercises focus on air, space, and cyber domain integration, maximizing the live, virtual, and constructive capabilities executed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Most are familiar with RF's tactical side (aircraft flying), what they don't realize is that there's even more significant capability that is being exercised around the Airmen and their aircraft by the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis (ShOC-N).
  • Graphic of U.S. Airmen working on computers during exercise with 505 CCW logo and title Warfighter Exercise 20-3.

    Warfighter Exercise 20-3

    The 505th Combat Training Squadron (CTS) facilitated the replication of the appropriate echelons of the Air Operation Center (AOC) for Warfighter Exercise 20-3 (WFX 20-3), an Army exercise running 24-hour operations from 5 – 13 February 2020. The exercise directly trained over 4,000 joint warfighters and accomplished 50 joint training events using more than two dozen different systems connecting seven sites across the country.
  • Hosted by the 705th Combat Training Squadron at Kirtland AFB, NM, members of the US Army refine their skills during exercise Virtual Flag 20-1.

    VIRTUAL FLAG 20-1: Train as You Fight

    The 705th Combat Training Squadron (CTS), 505th Command and Control Wing, home of Kirtland Air Force Base’s Distributed Mission Operations Center (DMOC), hosts VIRTUAL FLAG which serves as a train as you fight exercise by integrating the full spectrum of air, land, surface, space, and cyber warfighters in a virtual battlespace in joint and coalition environments. From 2 – 12 December 2019, the 705th CTS hosted joint Exercise VIRTUAL FLAG (VF) 20-1 with its mission partner, the 377th Air Base Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. 
  • Image is a tethered aerostat radar system (TARS) device being optimized by personnel.

    Tethered Aerostat Radar System Optimization

    The 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron (RADES) recently conducted an analysis and optimization of the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) in support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The aerostat-borne surveillance system provides radar detection and monitoring of low-altitude aircraft and surface vessels along the U.S.-Mexico border and select Caribbean areas.
  • United States Air Force’s inaugural class of Multi-Domain Warfare Officer Initial Skills Training graduates, Class 19-B

    505th Command and Control Wing graduates first-ever class of multi-domain warfare officers

    The 505th Command and Control Wing (CCW) graduated the first-ever class of the newly created multi-domain warfare officer career field October 9 at Hurlburt Field, Florida.

  • Estate claims for Senior Airman Luis Navajas

    If anyone has any claims for or against the estate of Senior Airman Luis Navajas, please contact 2nd Lt. Vance Mathis, the Summary Court Officer, at 386-795-7587 or 850-884-4592, or by email at vance.mathis.1@us.af.mil.
  • An MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, piloted by Col. Lex Turner flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force Photo / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt)

    Air Force Marathon to feature MQ-9 Reaper

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB – The MQ-9 Reaper has been selected as the featured aircraft for the 2018 Air Force Marathon.  Built by General Atomics Aviation Systems Inc., the Reaper is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely-piloted aircraft that is employed primarily against dynamic execution targets and secondarily as an

  • 505th CCW hosts multi-domain C2 joint exercise

    The 505th Command and Control Wing hosted subject matter experts from around the world during a ground-breaking exercise here July 17 - 21, focused on developing the concept of multi-domain command and control.
  • Danny Llyod, with the 505th Combat Training Squadron, coaches Soldiers through a training scenario during Warfighter Exercise 17-4 at Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 5, 2017. Conducted jointly by the Air Force and Army, WFX provided critical, simulated training to prepare units for real-world war scenarios. WFX applied pressure to all warfighting functions simultaneously while conducting operations in a tactical and computer-based environment. (Photo courtesyof Keith Keel)

    505th CTS provides unique capability for Army Warfighter Exercise

    More than 95 percent of the Airmen assigned to the 505th Combat Training Squadron prepared for and participated in the Army’s Warfighter Exercise 17-4, April 3-11.Conducted jointly by the Air Force and Army, WFX provided critical, simulated training to prepare units for real-world war scenarios. WFX applied pressure to all warfighting functions

  • 2017 Air Warfare Symposium, C2 and Fusion Warfare - General Hawk Carlisle

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