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WADS integrates Navy assets into ACE exercise Felix Hawk 24-11

The Western Air Defense Sector deployed a Battle Management Team in support of exercise Felix Hawk 24-11 to the control tower on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., Aug. 27-28, 2024. This exercise demonstrated shifting operations from a centralized physical infrastructure to a network of smaller, dispersed locations that can complicate adversary planning and provide more options for joint force commanders. (Courtesy photo)
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1st Lt. Micah Slifer graduates U.S. Navy TOPGUN

1st Lt. Micah Slifer, an air battle manager assigned to the Western Air Defense Sector’s 225th Air Defense Squadron, is the third ever U.S. Air National Guardsman to graduate from the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) located at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, April 19, 2024. As a TOPGUN graduate, Slifer will share new techniques and best practices with his fellow Airmen and members of the Navy who come to train at WADS from nearby installations in the Puget Sound. (Courtesy photo)
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1st Lt. Micah Slifer graduates U.S. Navy TOPGUN

1st Lt. Micah Slifer, 225th Air Defense Squadron air battle manager, is congratulated by Maj. Jake Allenton, 2017 U.S. Navy TOPGUN graduate and 225th Air Defense Squadron air battle manager, for completing the USN Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) located at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, April 19, 2024. The course included over 100 hours of academic events, 90 hours of mission briefs and debriefs, simulated mission events, and 14 tactical events resulting in 50 live fly sorties. (Courtesy photo)
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WADS New Agile Operations Center Operational

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Bret Daugherty (center left), The Adjutant General for Washington, and Liz Larter (center right), Deputy Chief of Staff and District Director for Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), cut the ribbon on the newly renovated Western Air Defense Sector Agile Operations Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, January 26, 2024. The new WADS Agile Operations Center is the largest technology and infrastructure leap since post 9/11 upgrades within the air defense sector enterprise and represents a successful partnership of planning and funding between the mission owners within NORAD, the National Guard Reserve Equipment Appropriation funded by Congress, and the members of the Washington Air National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Kimberly D. Burke)
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1960's 25th Air Division and Seattle Air Defense Sector complex

The 25th Air Division (right) and Seattle Defense Sector (left) complex were built in the late 1950's and became operational in January 1960 on McChord Air Force Base, Washington. The facility complex, known as the "blockhouse," housed the world's two largest digital computers at the time. Radar sites around the Pacific Northwest feed information into the computers, which solved problems of position, speed, altitude, and armament for the interceptor directors, who in turn guided pilots to targets. The air defense system inside, known as the semi-automatic ground environment (SAGE), wasn't completely automated. The final decisions were made by Airmen, which were the vital element in the defense system. (Courtesy photo)
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25th Air Division Emblem

The 25th Air Division was established on Oct. 25, 1948, in Silver Lake, Washington. It later relocated to McChord Air Force Base, Washington, on Sept. 15, 1951, until its deactivation on Sept. 30, 1990. The assets where transferred to the Northwest Air Defense Sector and later to the Western Air Defense Sector in 1995. (Courtesy of the United States Army Institute of Heraldry
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Colonel Antony Braun

Colonel Antony Braun is the 225th Air Defense Squadron commander, Western Air Defense Sector, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. (Courtesy photo)
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Battle Management Training Rolled Out

U.S. Air National Guard members from Washington, New York, Alaska and Hawaii gather for a group photo during testing of the new Battle Management Training NEXT roll out Aug. 26, 2021, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. BMTN was developed in partnership with Vectrona, Breakaway Games and Sentrana to provide a host of first-ever combined artificial intelligence, machine learning, biometric, and natural language processing capabilities consolidated into one training system. This video game like system provides command and control battle management operators sustained, high quality, and low cost training repetitions. The standard BMTN Workstation Kit is comprised of a laptop, headset, mouse, footswitch, and eye tracking panel. The software includes AI Service, Cloud Service and Gaming Engine. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Kimberly D. Burke)
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Official logo of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS)

Official logo of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). ABMS is an interconnected family [internet] of systems where data is brought into a cloud-based space by multiple sensors [warfighters, platforms, systems] and seamlessly used by operators to make quicker decisions in a congested and contested space. Data is the most valuable resource and we must accelerate how we can exploit it to our advantage. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Air Force Public Affairs Agency)
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Digital Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS)

Digital Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS)
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WADS Airmen Help Provide Food to Western Washington Families in Need

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Bradley, assigned to the 225th Air Defense Squadron, prepares food boxes at the Food Lifeline COVID Response warehouse April 23, 2020, in Seattle, Washington. More than 250 Air and National Guardsmen are assigned to the warehouse where they are able to prepare, on average, 268 boxes an hour per line. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Tim Chacon)
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WADS Airmen Help Provide Food to Western Washington Families in Need

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Jensen, assigned to the 225th Air Defense Squadron, prepares food boxes at the Food Lifeline COVID Response warehouse April 23, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. More than 250 Air and National Guardsmen are assigned to the warehouse where they are able to prepare, on average, 268 boxes an hour per line. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Tim Chacon)
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WADS Airmen Help Provide Food to Western Washington Families in Need

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Matthew Bradley, left, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Jensen, right, both assigned to the 225th Air Defense Squadron, prepare food boxes at the Food Lifeline COVID Response warehouse April 23, 2020, in Seattle, Washington. More than 250 Air and National Guardsmen are assigned to the warehouse where they are able to prepare, on average, 268 boxes an hour per line. (U.S. Air National Guard photo)
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NORAD intercetps stolen aircraft

NORAD launched two F-15C alert aircraft from Portland, who proceeded to intercept a Horizon Airlines Bombardier Q400 aircraft that was stolen from Seattle-Tacoma airport Aug. 10, 2018.
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225th Air Defense Squadron Shield

The official 225th Air Defense Squadron shield.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month (AF Graphic)
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Facebook Timeline Military Spouse Day May 2016

Facebook Timeline Military Spouse Day May 2016 (Courtesy Photo)
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Nutrition Awareness Month: Healthy eating, AF readiness and mission success

(Courtesy photo)
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#MotivationMonday graphic

#MotivationMonday graphic (Air Force Graphic)
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Happy New Year’s Eve 2015 graphic

Happy New Year’s Eve 2015 graphic (Air Force Graphic)
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