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Chief Master Sgt. Kimberly Pollard, National Air and Space Intelligence Center Command Chief, stands with the NASIC flag during a ceremony honoring Col. Maurizio Calabrese as he assumed command of the Center June 9, 2020. Newly promoted Brig. Gen. Calabrese, who relinquished command of NASIC to Col. Ariel Batungbacal last month, will serve as deputy commanding general for intelligence at the Over-the-Horizon Counterterrorism headquarters, U.S. Central Command, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Chief Master Sgt. Kimberly Pollard, National Air and Space Intelligence Center Command Chief, stands with the NASIC flag during a ceremony honoring Col. Maurizio Calabrese as he assumed command of the Center June 9, 2020. Newly promoted Brig. Gen. Calabrese, who relinquished command of NASIC to Col. Ariel Batungbacal last month, will serve as deputy commanding general for intelligence at the Over-the-Horizon Counterterrorism headquarters, U.S. Central Command, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. (Samuel Earick/U.S. Air Force)

(Tribune News Service) — Newly promoted Brig. Gen. Maurizio Calabrese, former commander of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is headed for a new assignment in Qatar, the Department of Defense announced Monday.

Calabrese will serve as deputy commanding general for intelligence at the Over-the-Horizon Counterterrorism headquarters, U.S. Central Command, at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the DOD said.

Calabrese relinquished command of NASIC to Col. Ariel Batungbacal last month in a ceremony at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

Also Monday, the DOD said Robert Fookes Jr. will become director of engineering and technical management at Air Force Materiel Command, at Wright-Patterson. Fookes had been director, engineering and technical management at the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office in Arlington, Va.

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