US Air Force Breaks Ground on $78 Million Dyess B-21 Raider Facility to Plan Stealth Bomber Missions

The U.S. Air Force broke ground on a $78 million mission planning facility for the B-21 Raider at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas on November 5, 2026. The 46,000-square-foot building will give the 7th Bomb Wing secure workspaces, communications networks and infrastructure for planning and generating global strike missions. It is the first building at Dyess dedicated exclusively to the Northrop Grumman bomber and forms part of the base’s transition from the B-1B. Dyess is the third designated B-21 operating base, after Ellsworth in South Dakota and Whiteman in Missouri.