The US Air Force Warfare Center is the new name for the Air Warfare Center at Nellis AFB, Nev., according to the Air Force. Officials say the name change more accurately captures the mission of the center to integrate space and information operations with air warfare.
The defense intelligence community has tried three times in the past decade to build a “common intelligence picture”—a single data stream providing the information that commanders need to make decisions about the battlefield. The first two attempts failed. But officials say things are different today.