LANGLEY AFB, Va., Oct. 9 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command issued the following press release:

Gerald Romine doesn't wait for a phone call anymore when something goes wrong on base. From his desk at the 325th Civil Engineer Squadron, he logs into a dashboard and sees building statuses in real time. If a facility drops offline, he drills down to pinpoint whether it's a panel, a zone, or the entire building."This used to take hours," Romine said. "Now I know what's happening before anyone picks up the phone."Romine is one of the first end users of the Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control platform, known as IROC. The technology was developed in response to Hurricane Michael's destruction in 2018, which damaged more th...