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Sixteenth Air Force activates, integrates missions, strengthens information warfare capabilities
October 15, 2019 — In March 2019, Air Force leaders decided to create a new information warfare numbered air force with enhanced missions and capabilities. Sixteenth Air Force activated at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Oct. 11, integrating Twenty-Fourth Air Force, to include Air Forces Cyber, and Twenty-Fifth Air Force into a single headquarters that will provide global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, cyber, electronic warfare and information operations. ... MORE

Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh (right) assumes command of Sixteenth Air Force from Gen. Mike Holmes, Air Combat Command commander, during the Sixteenth Air Force assumption of command at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Oct. 11. The Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Air Forces were inactivated during the ceremony to integrate into the new information warfare numbered air force. Sixteenth Air Force is responsible for providing information warfare capabilities to combatant commanders with the speed to match today’s technological environment.

Local intel, cyber communities honor fallen heroes
October 8, 2019 — Airmen and families from the intelligence and cyber communities gathered at Security Hill at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Oct. 4 to recognize and honor their fallen heroes. More than 5,600 of the community’s brothers and sisters have perished, and the names of more than 130 of the most recent losses were read during the ceremony... MORE

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, Twenty-Fifth Air Force commander, speaks during the Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Air Force's annual Remembrance Ceremony at Joint base San Antonio-Lackland Oct. 4. This year, former and present members of both NAFs gathered to remember the year's fallen warriors.

ACC commander discusses Sixteenth Air Force as new Information Warfare NAF
September 20, 2019 — Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, said that Sixteenth Air Force will be the designation for a new Information Warfare Component-Numbered Air Force, while speaking at the Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Sept. 18... MORE

Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, announced that Sixteenth Air Force (16th AF) will be the designation for a new Information Warfare (IW) Component-Numbered Air Force (NAF).

Twenty-Fifth Air Force welcomes new commander
August 30, 2019 — Maj. Gen. Timothy D. Haugh assumed command of Twenty-Fifth Air Force from Maj. Gen. Mary F. O’Brien during a change of command ceremony presided over by Gen. Mike Holmes, Air Combat Command commander, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Aug. 29... MORE

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Timothy D. Haugh (right) takes command of Twenty-Fifth Air Force from Gen. Mike Holmes, Air Combat Command commander, during a change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Aug. 29. Haugh succeeds Maj. Gen. Mary F. O’Brien, who was recently confirmed as the Air Force’s next deputy chief of staff for ISR and cyber effects operations.

Larson Awards testing starts May 1 for Twenty-Fifth Air Force enlisted Airmen
April 16, 2019 — Testing for the 2019 Maj. Gen. Doyle Larson Awards is scheduled to begin May 1. Enlisted Airmen, technical sergeant and below, from Twenty-Fifth Air Force, to include attached Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard components, and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, are eligible to test... MORE

esting for the 2019 Maj. Gen. Doyle Larson Awards begins May 1, 2019. Enlisted Airmen, technical sergeant and below, from Twenty-Fifth Air Force, to include attached Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard components, and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, are eligible to test.

Twenty-Fifth Air Force reaches out to small businesses
March 25, 2019 — The Twenty-Fifth Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland sponsored a Small Business Day March 18 where 50 individuals representing 32 small businesses from across the United States presented products or services to headquarters staff in support of The Small Business Act of July 30, 1953... MORE

Twenty-Fifth Air Force sponsored a Small Business Day March 18 where 50 individuals representing 32 small businesses from across the United States presented products or services to headquarters staff in support of The Small Business Act of July 30, 1953.

Twenty-Fifth Air Force mentors coach Thomas Jefferson High School students for national cyber competition
February 14, 2019 — Twenty-Fifth Air Force members from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland adopted two teams from San Antonio’s Thomas Jefferson High School to help prepare them for this year’s CyberPatriot competition... MORE

Thomas Jefferson High School’s Army Junior ROTC CyberPatriot team displays the CyberPatriot challenge coin during their CyberPatriot meeting in San Antonio Jan. 31. Jefferson’s team advanced to the gold and platinum rounds of this year’s competition.

Twenty-Fifth Air Force’s Maj. Gen. Doyle E. Larson Awards presented to exceptional Airmen
January 11, 2019 — Airmen received gold, silver, and bronze medals during the 2018 Maj. Gen. Doyle E. Larson Awards ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Dec. 6. The Larson Awards are Twenty-Fifth Air Force’s way to recognize the top technicians vital to accomplishing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions... MORE

The widow of Maj. Gen. Doyle E. Larson (center) joins the recognition of Twenty-Fifth Air Force’s Maj. Gen. Doyle E. Larson Awards finalists. Maj. Gen. Mary O’Brien, Twenty-Fifth Air Force commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Stanley Cadell, Twenty-Fifth Air Force command chief presented the awards at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Dec. 6, 2018.

Evolving technology provides full-spectrum decision advantage to warfighters
October 2, 2018 — This final piece in the four-part series on Twenty-Fifth Air Force’s contributions to the Air Force in the last 70 years captures the Numbered Air Force’s involvement in Operation DESERT SHIELD and its influence into the 21st century... MORE

Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance Airmen participate in airborne training on a Rivet Joint, RC-135VW, aircraft during an exercise in the mid-1990s.

Twenty-Fifth Air Force: 70 years in the Fight
September 14, 2018 — America’s air campaign continued after Vietnam and U.S. Air Force Security Service continued providing mission data for air operations as well as ground capabilities. ... MORE

By the mid-1960s, U.S. Air Force Security Service had installed AN/FLR-9 antennas, or ‘elephant cages,’ in strategic locations around the globe. By the end of the decade, seven antennas were in operation.