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Lt. Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere, deputy commander of U.S. Strategic Command (left), Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command (center), and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) David Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies sit on stage during the 2022 Air Force Association Warfare Symposium, March 3 in Orlando, Florida. AFA’s Air Force Association Warfare Symposium is a premiere professional development event for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, as well as the aerospace and defense industries that support them. (Air Force courtesy photo)

March 9, 2022

Gen. Cotton talks strategic deterrence at 2022 AFA Warfare Symposium

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — Gen. Anthony Cotton, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, spoke during the 2022 Air Force Association Warfare Symposium, March 3 in Orlando, Fla., highlighting the command’s role in strategic deterrence.

A B-2 Spirit sits on the Nellis Air Force Base flight line.

Feb. 25, 2022

Red Flag 22-1: Integrated mission planning is the first step to B-2 mission success

WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. — Red Flag is a large-scale exercise that offers the 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron an opportunity to enhance their integrated mission planning capabilities with the use of ever-evolving intelligence. Red Flag is hosted multiple times a year at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and includes a variety of units and airframes from across the Department

A B-1B Lancer taxis on the flightline after completing a Continental United States to Continental United States joint Large Force Exercise alongside the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Jan. 11, 2022. They executed a 30 hour two-ship CONUS to CONUS mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Hayman)

Feb. 9, 2022

53rd Wing tests avionics software update during Bomber Task Force sortie

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas — The 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed a test of the Sustainment Block-18 avionics software and achieved long-range communications utilizing Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol–A during a U.S. Strategic Command Bomber Task Force mission in the Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility, Jan. 11, 2022.

Airmen assigned to the 341st Missile Wing from Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, celebrate the win of the Blanchard Trophy during the 2021 Global Strike Challenge score posting at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Dec. 8, 2021. The challenge was designed to showcase the world’s premier bomber and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force, and improve Airmen’s combat capabilities through competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class William Pugh)

Dec. 9, 2021

Global Strike Challenge '21 announces 'Best of the Best'

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — Air Force Global Strike Command announced the winners of Global Strike Challenge 2021 at the multi-month competition’s capstone event Dec. 8, here.Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile operations and maintenance, helicopter operations and security forces competition with units from Air Force

Dec. 8, 2021

USFFC Holds Change of Command, Welcomes 43rd Commander

NORFOLK, Va. — NORFOLK, Va. - Adm. Christopher Grady was relieved by Adm. Daryl Caudle as commander, U.S. Fleet Forces (USFFC), in a ceremony aboard aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 7.

The Airmen of the 90th Operations Support Squadron pose for a group photo while holding the Col. Lowell F. McAdoo Award for the most outstanding intercontinental ballistic missile operations for 2020 on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, Nov. 23. 2021. The squadron earned this by executing 364 nuclear orders and 8,700 alert hours during the pandemic. Also, they organized and led the Air Force's first and only drive-in airshow with 4,500 people in attendance while ensuring the health and safety of its spectators. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joseph Coslett)

Dec. 1, 2021

90 OSS earns best overall ICBM operations award

F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. — The 90th Operations Support Squadron was awarded the Col. Lowell F. McAdoo Award thus capturing the title of the best Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Operations Support Squadron in Air Force Global Strike Command for the year 2020 at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. The 90 OSS earned the award by executing 364 nuclear orders, coordinating

Every year U.S. Strategic Command holds a nuclear-command and control exercise, Global Thunder, which tests and validates the nuclear operation process, exercises like these demonstrate the readiness of the nation’s nuclear capabilities. Global Thunder 22 tested Team Minot’s 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing.

Nov. 17, 2021

Team Minot Concludes Exercise Global Thunder 22

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — Every year U.S. Strategic Command holds a nuclear-command and control exercise, Global Thunder, which tests and validates the nuclear operation process, exercises like these demonstrate the readiness of the nation’s nuclear capabilities. Global Thunder 22 tested Team Minot’s 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing.

Defensive cyber network and host operators assigned to the 800th Cyber Protection Team, pose in front of a 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-1B Lancer, at RAF Fairford, United Kingdom, Oct. 8, 2021. The 800th CPT, Joint Force Headquarters Cyber- Air Force, is supporting the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron during a Bomber Task Force Europe deployment by hunting and hardening systems on the B-1 to ensure components were free of any adversary activity. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Colin Hollowell)

Nov. 4, 2021

Historic deployment of cyber forces with Bomber Task Force Europe

ROYAL AIR FORCE FAIRFORD, United Kingdom — ROYAL AIR FORCE FAIRFORD, United Kingdom – In a historic deployment, a U.S. Cyber Command Cyber Protection Team defended critical data on B-1B Lancers assigned to Dyess Air Force Base’s 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron during the Bomber Task Force Europe mission within U.S. European Command’s theater starting Oct. 6, 2021.

Jason Cooper, an AOS with Underwater Warfighting Development Center (UWDC), Detachment Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL), works closely with Commander, Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR) in Norfolk, Virginia.

Oct. 15, 2021

Ice Pilots: Navigators of the Arctic

NORFOLK, Va. — Arctic operations specialists (AOS) are commonly referred to as ice pilots, and they maneuver submarines through dangerous waters of the Arctic.

USSTRATCOM’s Advanced Warfare cell established the framework for this TTX. Data contributed to the TTX by the range of participants will further inform STRATCOM’s understanding on what the priority and fundamental needs are to better represent JEMSO in modeling and war-gaming.

June 30, 2021

U.S. Strategic Command explores ways to increase JEMSO planning

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) sponsored a Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (JEMSO) table top exercise (TTX), in Suffolk, Virginia, June 29 through July 1. The TTX focused on furthering the integration of JEMSO into the war-gaming construct and its role in supporting Joint Task Force situational awareness, deception actions, and integrated multi-domain superiority against a near-peer threat in a 2030 scenario.