C4ISR Center Provides Real-Life Training: The Air Force’s Pentagon Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconnaissance Visualization Center recently was the setting for Air Force and Coast Guard leaders who played out a homeland defense exercise spread across the country. One scenario featured a 9/11-type situation with a hijacked airliner—it was shot down by two F-16s—and another had an unmanned aerial vehicle heading up the Potomac from some unknown source. The exercise participants in various parts of the country had to communicate and determine a course of action. The center’s computers and huge flat screen TVs provide a means to simulate often-difficult logistical exercises in cyberspace and on networks. The center “provides the perfect complement to live flying with an incredible amount of fidelity and realism,” said USAF Lt. Gen. Michael W. Peterson, the chief of warfighting integration and information.
How Miss America 2024 Took the Air Force Somewhere New
Dec. 20, 2024
When 2nd Lt. Madison Marsh became the first ever active service member crowned Miss America on Jan. 14, top Air Force officials recognized a rare opportunity to reach women and girls who otherwise might not consider military service as an option.