April 25, 2025 C2WAC Goes Global: Largest class to date unites allied warfighters in UK hosted course The Command and Control Warrior Advanced Course was held outside of the United States for the first time. The most recent iteration, which is customarily held at Hurlburt Field, Fla., was held at Royal Air Force Waddington in the United Kingdom and had nearly equal numbers of coalition and U.S.
Sept. 20, 2024 Bamboo Eagle: ‘Upping our game’ for Great Power Competition Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3 integrated U.S. Airmen, Guardians, Sailors, Marines, and allies from Australia and the United Kingdom into a combined force to train for a possible conflict in the era of Great Power Competition. The exercise conducted live-fly operations in the eastern Pacific and a
Sept. 10, 2024 Air Force examines emerging tactics during Bamboo Eagle More than 10,000 personnel from the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom, and Australia participated in exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3, a combat-representative exercise including operational test and evaluation experts from the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The OT&E experts’ mission was to
Dec. 7, 2023 Combined US, coalition force increase combat effectiveness during Indo-Pacific Virtual Flag exercise For the first time in the fourteen-year history of the Virtual Flag: Coalition exercise, integrated forces from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada fought against a peer adversary in a virtual Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. To increase combat effectiveness, the combined
Aug. 30, 2023 Air Force, Army Battle Labs work with DARPA on ASTARTE, new C2 capability The 805th Combat Training Squadron’s Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, also known as the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System Battle Lab, recently experimented with joint partners that helped evolve a new joint airspace management and joint fires capability at Nellis Air Force Base,
Aug. 24, 2023 Joint and coalition warfighters complete advanced, multi-domain operations integration course At Hurlburt Field, Florida, 22 warfighters from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, and Royal Australian Air Force recently completed the Air Force’s Command and Control Warrior Advanced Course, or C2WAC, which taught them how to integrate both kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities available to the
July 27, 2023 AOC FTU hosts ACC Joint Airspace Conference ‘23 In conjunction with Air Combat Command Personnel Recovery and Joint Integration Division, the 505th Training Squadron hosted the Joint Airspace Conference June 27-28 at Hurlburt Field, Florida. The conference, which addressed current and relevant joint and combatant command airspace issues and
June 5, 2023 US facilitates Japan AOC C2 training Three years in the making, the 505th Training Squadron fulfilled a request by the government of Japan to assist with understanding how an air operations center plans and executes and how to build instructional standards to enable airpower at the operational level of war.
May 24, 2023 AOC FTU augments Austere Challenge 2023 The 505th Training Squadron sent air operations center subject matter experts to Ramstein Air Base to support U.S. European Command’s execution of exercise Austere Challenge 2023 from May 5 - 12 to practice coordinating a response to a fictional major crisis.
May 24, 2023 ShOC-N to host Industry Day, dynamic targeting focus The 805th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis, will host an Industry Day focusing on dynamic targeting and kill-chain automation experimentation on June 9, 2023, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.