The Air National Guard-run 1st Air Force formally opened its new 37,000-square foot, $30 million air operations center at Tyndall AFB, Fla., as planned on June 1. The mission of the 601st Air and Space Operations Center—also known as America’s Air Operations Center—is to plan, direct, and assess air and space operations for NORAD and US Northern Command, working both attack and natural disaster operations.
The Air National Guardsman who was arrested last year for sharing hundreds of top secret and classified documents to online chatrooms was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on Nov. 12 after pleading guilty to several charges this March.