Creech AFB stands up new ops center to manage RPA mission growth

By Rachel Cohen / October 27, 2017 at 12:26 PM
The Air Force is restructuring how it manages remotely piloted aircraft forces to reflect the needs of an MQ-9 Reaper fleet that has nearly quadrupled in size and spread to support multiple geographic combatant commands over more than two decades. The Persistent Attack and Reconnaissance Operations Center opened Oct. 16 at Creech Air Force Base, NV, as a detachment of the 12th Air Force, the air component of U.S. Southern Command, the Air Force announced last week. Officials envision the...

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