Lt. Gen. James Slife, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, discusses implementation and organization of Expeditionary Air Bases (XABs) in FY24. Slife also covers considerations with respect to planning, personnel management, and other Total Force elements.
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – Six members of the 426th Network Warfare Squadron (NWS) were joined by nine members from the 33rd Cyber Operations Squadron (COS) for a visit to Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, VA from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, 2023. The team received several in-depth summaries of varying Microsoft defense processes and systems. They also discussed effective avenues of collaborative implementation for future operations.