Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Azzano, leader of an aircraft test wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., will take over the AFMC post from Brig. Gen. John S. Shapland.
A change of command date had not been announced.
AFMC is headquartered at Wright-Patterson.
Azzano, a former fighter and test pilot, was a former chief of advanced weapons and sensors division in the Air Force Special Program Directorate at the Pentagon. He has had various unit commander roles, including leader of the 412th Operations Group at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.; the 72nd Air Base Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., and present commander of the 96th Test Wing at Eglin AFB, biographical information shows.
Azzano has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aerospace engineering from Purdue and Stanford universities, respectively, and a master’s degree in strategic studies from , his biography shows.
Shapland, an Air Force Academy graduate, former test pilot and an Iraq veteran, has held the post since September 2015.
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