Florida. The next year, it was redesignated as the Army Air Forces Tactical Center, on 16 October 1943. On 1 June 1945, it was redesignated the Army Air Forces Center and added the testing functions of the AAF Proving Ground Command as it took control of Eglin.

The Air Force Center was the planned USAF unit for the development of tactical policy and procedures. The Air Force Center was to be the succeeding unit to the Army Air Forces Center. Instead, the center became the Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command on