Nov. 7, 2023

Eastern Air Defense Sector rolls out new cloud-based command-and-control system

The North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Eastern Air Defense Sector performed the initial operating capability rollout of the Advanced Battle Management System’s Cloud-Based Command and Control system, or CBC2, in front of Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and leaders from NORAD, U.S. Northern Command, Joint Staff, Royal Canadian Air Force and Office of the Secretary of Defense.

June 17, 2021

CONR-1AF conducts first-ever in theater C-17 special refueling operations during AD 21-1

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — In support of the North American Aerospace Defense and Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) homeland defense missions, Continental U.S. NORAD Region – 1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern) achieved a first-ever milestone June 16 when U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 140th Wing, Buckley Space Force Base, Aurora, Colo., and the 4th Airlift Squadron, McChord Air Force Base, Wash., performed a C-17 wet-wing refueling during exercise Amalgam Dart 21-01 at Thule Air Base, Greenland.