ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- The Department of the Air Force has selected Jackson Barracks, Louisiana, as the preferred location for an Air National Guard cyber operations squadron.
The 122th Air Support Operations Squadron will be inactivated at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, as part of the 2025 defense budget divestment of 50% of the ANG Tactical Air Control Part and Control and Reporting Center missions across the force. The 2025 defense budget also reassigned a portion of the manpower to other missions.
Louisiana ANG will convert this reassigned manpower to support a new cyber operations squadron, which aligns with an increase focus on cyber capabilities in support of the Interim National Defense Strategy.
Louisiana ANG will lose four part-time personnel authorizations and gain 33 part-time personnel authorizations.
The service anticipates full operational capability in spring 2030.
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