A new batch of US Army Air Force is already in Greece and is being prepared for training and exercises with Greek military helicopters and select units of the Hellenic Armed Forces.

Greece and the United States have recently been engaged in intensive negotiations on the signing of a new, updated Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA) that will replace the existing one dating back to 1990 (which has become known as "the bases' agreement") and is considered obsolete due to the rapid changes that have taken place in recent years.