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Department-Level Exercises 2025

Emerald Warrior simulates integrated special operations in multi-domain scenarios, including urban combat, CBRN response, aeromedical evacuation, and joint terminal attack control.
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Department-Level Exercises 2025

Blue Flag challenges participants to manage theater-wide operations under near-peer threat scenarios, including degraded communications, contested domains, and dynamic targeting, conducted in a simulated but highly realistic environment. It is designed to ensure senior air and joint leaders can make timely, informed decisions in a complex battlespace.
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Department-Level Exercises 2025

Bamboo Eagle is a Department-Level command-and-control exercise hosted by the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center and designed to simulate high-end conflict across the Indo-Pacific.
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Airman Magazine: Why We Exercise

Coordinating a large-scale exercise means more than setting dates and sending aircraft. AMC planners engage early with combatant commands to identify mobility requirements, operational gaps and theater-specific challenges. The goal is to match strategy with capability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Warner)
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Airman Magazine: Why We Exercise

U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Nicholas Srajer, left, 35th Civil Engineer Squadron Design officer in charge, shovels debris alongside a Japan Air Self Defense Force airman assigned to the 2nd Air Wing during exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025 while conducting Rapid Airfield Damage Repair (RADR) training at Chitose Air Base, Japan, July 29, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Koby Mitchell)
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Airman Magazine: Why We Exercise

Before the first F-35 Lighting IIs, C-17 Globemaster IIIs and B-2 Spirts took off, Airmen and Guardians across the force spent months planning, training and wargaming to ensure they were ready for this large-scale, joint undertaking. The goal: operate as one force rather than as separate commands or units.
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Airman Magazine: Why We Exercise

Leaders want to know whether Airman and Guardians can operate at scale, under pressure and with little warning, just as they would need to in a high-end, contested environment.
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Airman Magazine: Why We Exercise

The Air Force has always trained for conflict, but today’s challenges demand more than practice sorties and simulations. To prepare for operations in contested and complex environments, the service is expanding how it designs, executes, and evaluates large-scale exercises. At the center of that effort is the Air Force Lessons Learned program.
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In this week's look around the Air Force, the Department-Level Exercise series concludes after one month of readiness and interoperability training missions, the eighth X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission successfully launches to test laser communication and navigation technologies, and the Space Force publishes new instruction outlining dress and appearance standards for Guardians. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Travis Burcham)
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Air Force announces the Outstanding Airmen for 2025

Air Force announces the Outstanding Airmen for 2025. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Rosario "Charo" Gutierrez)
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Sentinel solid rocket motor test

Pictured is a still from a test camera taken during a full-scale qualification test of the stage-two solid rocket motor for the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile July 20, 2025, by the 717th Test Squadron, Arnold Engineering Development Complex, at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. Conducted by the U.S. Air Force in partnership with Northrop Grumman, the test marks a critical milestone in the ongoing effort to modernize the nation’s land-based nuclear deterrent. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Sentinel solid rocket motor test

Pictured is a still from a test camera taken during a full-scale qualification test of the stage-two solid rocket motor for the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile July 20, 2025, by the 717th Test Squadron, Arnold Engineering Development Complex, at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. Conducted by the U.S. Air Force in partnership with Northrop Grumman, the test marks a critical milestone in the ongoing effort to modernize the nation’s land-based nuclear deterrent. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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The Advanced Battle Management System Division is responsible for fielding aerial and terrestrial digital infrastructure, software and applications, and distributed nodes for command and control, and battle management. Tactical Operations Center - Light, managed by the Department of the Air Force’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management’s ABMS Division, was recently approved for the upgrade of more than 40 TOC-L Major Release 2 capabilities. The MR2 prototype will serve as the execution arm of the DAF BATTLE NETWORK by utilizing ABMS Digital Infrastructure to communicate to various sensors and C2 systems.
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Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Maurielle Pankau, a 183rd Air Component Operations Squadron intelligence analyst planner, participates in the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis Experiment 3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 13, 2025. The ShOC-N’s Experiment 3 focused on improving dynamic targeting kill-chain automation through software integration and associated tactics, techniques, and procedures development. (The image has been altered by blurring badges for security purposes and cropped to focus on the subject.) (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Nesbitt)
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Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation

U.S. tactical air control party Airmen participate in the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis Experiment 3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 13, 2025. TACP participants experimented with multi-node, geographically dispersed tactical command and control integration systems with joint and coalition partners. (The image has been altered by blurring badges for security purposes and cropped to focus on the subject.) (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Nesbitt)
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Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation

U.S. Airmen participate in the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis Experiment 3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 13, 2025. Experiment participants were challenged to use human-machine teaming to deliver decision advantage in scenarios marked by complexity, speed, and uncertainty. (The image has been altered by blurring badges for security purposes and cropped to focus on the subject.) (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Nesbitt)
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Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Justin Smith, a 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron security and inspections officer in charge, participates in the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis Experiment 3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 13, 2025. Experiment participants were challenged to use human-machine teaming to deliver decision advantage in scenarios marked by complexity, speed, and uncertainty. (The image has been altered by blurring badges for security purposes and cropped to focus on the subject.) (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Nesbitt)
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Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. April Summers, a 2d Systems Operations Squadron database administrator, participates in the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis Experiment 3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 13, 2025. The ShOC-N’s Experiment 3 focused on improving dynamic targeting kill-chain automation through software integration and associated tactics, techniques, and procedures development. (The image has been altered by blurring badges for security purposes and cropped to focus on the subject.) (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Nesbitt)
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The 188th Wing is playing a pivotal role in Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC) 25, the Pacific Air Force’s most comprehensive contingency response exercise, running from July 10 to August 8, 2025.
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REFORPAC 25 Graphic

Official graphic for exercise Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC) 2025. (Courtesy Graphic)
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