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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

Air Force Maj. Phillip Woodhull, 772nd Test Squadron Director of Operations, provides a brief of the Benefield Anechoic Facility to Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 students on Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 22. The STC students saw a Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) up close during its test campaign inside the BAF. (Air Force photo by Adam Bowles)
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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

Air Force Maj. Phillip Woodhull, 772nd Test Squadron Director of Operations, provides a brief of the Benefield Anechoic Facility to Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 students on Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 22. The STC students saw a Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) up close during its test campaign inside the BAF. (Air Force photo by Adam Bowles)
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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

An F-16D Fighting Falcon flies over the Precision Impact Range Area on Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 10. The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 utilized multi-domain assets during their capstone project to provide vital info for aircraft pilots to aid in target acquisition, battle damage assessment and combat search and rescue. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem)
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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

An F-16D Fighting Falcon flies over the Precision Impact Range Area on Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 10. The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 utilized multi-domain assets during their capstone project to provide vital info for aircraft pilots to aid in target acquisition, battle damage assessment and combat search and rescue. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem)
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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

An F-16D Fighting Falcon flies over the Precision Impact Range Area on Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 10. As part of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 capstone project, the F-16 dropped munitions onto the PIRA and used satellite imagery to conduct battle damage assessment. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem)
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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 students receive instruction on radio operations at the Precision Impact Range Area on Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 10. As part of the USAFTPS STC Class 23-1 capstone project, the students utilized an HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter to conduct simulated combat search and rescue operations using multi-domain imagery assets. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem)
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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 pose for a class photo in front of an HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter at Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 10. As part of the USAFTPS STC Class 23-1 capstone project, the students utilized multi-domain imagery assets to conduct battle damage assessment, target acquisition and combat search and rescue operations. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem)
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STC completes most rigorous capstone event yet featuring multi-domain assets

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Space Test Course Class 23-1 students board an HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter at the Precision Impact Range Area on Edwards Air Force Base, California, May 10. As part of the USAFTPS STC Class 23-1 capstone project, the students utilized the helicopters to conduct simulated combat search and rescue operations using multi-domain imagery assets. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem)
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Incoming and outgoing commanders share rural county Tennessee roots

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dierk Seifert, 605th Test and Training Squadron Detachment 2 commander, prepares for his change of command ceremony at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, May 15, 2023. Two northwest Tennessee rural county residents took part in the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Detachment 2’s change of command ceremony on May 19 at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Incoming and outgoing commanders share rural county Tennessee roots

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dierk Seifert, 605th Test and Training Squadron Detachment 2 commander, prepares for his change of command ceremony at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, May 15, 2023. Two northwest Tennessee rural county residents took part in the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Detachment 2’s change of command ceremony on May 19 at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Incoming and outgoing commanders share rural county Tennessee roots

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dierk Seifert, 605th Test and Training Squadron Detachment 2 commander, shakes hands with Lt. Col. Kevan Seamans, 605th TES Detachment 1 incoming commander, prior to their change of command ceremony at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, May 15, 2023. Two northwest Tennessee rural county residents took part in the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Detachment 2’s change of command ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Incoming and outgoing commanders share rural county Tennessee roots

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Dierk Seifert, 605th Test and Training Squadron Detachment 2 commander, and Lt. Col. Kevan Seamans, 605th TES Detachment 1 incoming commander, prepare for their change of command ceremony at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, May 15, 2023. Two northwest Tennessee rural county residents took part in the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Detachment 2’s change of command ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Incoming and outgoing commanders share rural county Tennessee roots

Official Photo of U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Kevan Seamans on May 3, 2023 at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

The Benefield Anechoic Facility recently tested its first space satellite in decades. Anticipated to launch in late 2023, Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) will be the Department of Defense’s first experimental, integrated navigation satellite system in nearly 50 years.
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

Truly a team effort, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory all had critical roles in this historic testing of the NTS-3 satellite.
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

In 2019, the Department of the Air Force designed NTS-3 as one of the three Vanguard programs with the goal of delivering remarkable new capabilities that provide warfighters superior advantages in the battlefield
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

The largest anechoic test facility in the world, the BAF, provides shielding effectiveness that allows GPS tracking and jamming tests without frequency management or regulatory agency approval.
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

After the testing is complete, the NTS-3 will operate for one year in a near-geosynchronous orbit and will broadcast navigation signals from its phased array antenna.
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Hero LT

1st Lt. Micah Grissom, 96th Operations Support Squadron, rescued a distressed swimmer from a dangerous rip current May 13 while at the beach near Destin, Florida. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
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MagNav Demostration

MagNav equipment loaded on the back of a C-17A Globemaster III, ready for the first real-time demonstration on during Exercise Golden Phoenix May 11-15.
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