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.
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.