The chief of staff, Air Force announced the following assignments:
Maj. Gen. Robert D. McMurry Jr., vice commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, to commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Col. Mark A. Baird, who has been selected for the grade of brigadier general, from special assistant to the commander, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to vice commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
Col. Daniel L. Simpson, who has been selected for the grade of brigadier general, from commander, National Security Agency/Central Security Service Texas, National Security Agency, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, to deputy director of intelligence, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan; and assistant deputy chief of staff of intelligence to North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters Resolute Support, U.S. Central Command, Kabul, Afghanistan.