The Department of the Air Force has selected Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base, Utah, as the Preferred Location for two Air National Guard cyber operations squadrons.
The 109th Air Control Squadron will be inactivated at Wright ANGB as part of the 2025 defense budget divestment of 50% of the ANG Tactical Air Control Party and Control and Reporting Center missions across the force. The 2025 defense budget also reassigned a portion of the manpower to other missions.
Utah ANG will convert this reassigned manpower to support the new cyber squadrons, which aligns with an increase focus on cyber capabilities in support of the Interim National Defense Strategy.
Utah will gain 12 full-time personnel authorizations and lose 52 part-time personnel authorizations.
The service anticipates full operational capability in spring 2030.
