5 November 2024

JUST IN: Air Force Activates New Command to Integrate Them All

Laura Heckmann

First announced in February, the Air Force activated a provisional Integrated Capabilities Command in September as a single entity to lead the service’s ambitious modernization efforts.

Gen. David Allvin, Air Force chief of staff, said during a fireside chat at the American Enterprise Institute Oct. 31 that the new command is “will be one of the most challenging to actually put into action, but it might be the most impactful thing we do in our Air Force for a while.”

The Integrated Capabilities Command was a response to a threat landscape that evolved from what Allvin called a single, “galvanizing” threat to a more complex landscape that stretched across multiple capabilities and commands that were not talking to each other.

An Air Force press release described the command as a means to accelerate force modernization efforts “against a backdrop of evolving global threats.” The provisional command will eventually activate operating locations and integrate modernization and sustainment subject matter experts “aligned in new teams focused on mission integration and operational concept definition, integrated capability development as well as force analysis and planning.”

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