 Seventeenth Air Force directed the U.S. air involvement in the 2011 military intervention in Libya, dubbed Operation Odyssey Dawn,before command of the whole operation was transferred to NATO.As of 13 January 2010, the Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley announced that the 617th AOC will be consolidated with the 603d Air and Space Operations Center (according to AFA reporting).Seventeenth Air Force was inactivated in April 2012 as part of an Air Force cost savings effort.