The Air Force recently stood up a new numbered Air Force for information warfare within Air Combat Command, consolidating the 24th and 25th Air Forces into the 16th Air Force, also known as Air Forces Cyber. The new entity, based at Joint-Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, is now responsible for coordinating electronic warfare, cyber operations and integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets. Meanwhile, the service has also graduated its first cadre of multi-domain warfare officers out of the 505 Command and Control Wing at Hurlbert Field, Florida, creating a new 13O Air Force specialty code as the U.S. military looks to train for potential conflict across all domains. Air Combat Command Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Christopher Weggeman, who served as the 24th Air Forces Commander and Air Force Cyber Command Commander from 2016 to 2018, discussed the implications of these changes in an exclusive interview with Defense Daily at Langley AFB, Virginia. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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