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  • Air University hosts AFITC Education and Training Event, focus on multi-domain operations

    Air University hosts AFITC Education and Training Event on multi-domain operations

    Hosted by Air University and themed “Cyberpower: Critical to Multi-Domain Operations,” the emphasis of this year’s AFITC will be on education and training in the realm of multi-domain command and control.
  • Capt. Christopher, a 103rd Attack Squadron pilot at Horsham Air Guard Station, Pa., operates an MQ-9 Reaper flight simulator at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City, N.J., March 3, 2016. The Federal Aviation Administration selected eight 111th Attack Wing pilot volunteers from Horsham AGS for a study aimed at developing a Detect and Avoid display for unmanned aircraft systems. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Andria Allmond)

    Classified network modernized with over $150 million contract

    The Hanscom program executive office overseeing the Air Force Secret Internet Protocol Router Network awarded a five-year contract to unify and standardize classified computing at more than 180 Air Force locations worldwide.
  • Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks near the lunar module during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity.

    Aiming higher: Airmen contribute to human spaceflight from Apollo to tomorrow

    From Air Force Col. Nick Hague, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, all the way back to Buzz Aldrin, who was a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War, Airmen are among the more than 60% of astronauts who came from the uniformed service.
  • Rising Technology: DLA-Aviation automates to support WR-ALC workload increase

    Rising Technology: DLA Aviation at Warner Robins automates to support WR-ALC workload increase

    Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Warner Robins on Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, recently acquired state of the art automated storage aids that has Shop Service Center personnel optimistic about the future of delivery response time and ease-of-access to the crucial parts necessary for aircraft maintenance.
  • The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Simulators Division is in the process of redesigning existing office space into an open office design. Construction on the first phase of the project is expected to finish in August. The overall project is expected to be completed in the January 2020 timeframe. (U.S. Air Force photo by Brian Brackens)

    Division turns to open office design

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – When Col. Philip Carpenter came onboard as the senior materiel leader for the Simulators Division in the Spring of 2017, he took over an organization with a rapidly expanding mission but limited space for new employees.“When I started the job I realized immediately that we had serious space constraints and no
  • Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen W. Wilson speaks to a crowd of small businesses, venture capitalists and Airmen during the inaugural Air Force Pitch Day inNew York, March 7, 2019. Air Force Pitch Day is designed as a fast-track program to put companies on one-page contracts and same-day awards with the swipe of a government credit card. The Air Force is partnering with small businesses to help further national security in air, space and cyberspace. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr.)

    AF SBIR program director: Pitch Days prove service can move at speed of innovation

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – David Shahady, director of the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Program knows a thing or two about competition – both athletically and the business variety.A seven-time Ironman Triathlete, he has been racing for almost 19 years – although he had never won a
  • Captain Jonathan Beabout, a former Squadron Officer School student research assistant, pitches his idea for leveraging chatbot technology across Air Education and Training Command educational platforms at the MGMWERX Pitch Night, May 21, 2019, Montgomery, Alabama. The captain, the chief of weapons and tactics at Lackland AFB, Texas, developed his idea while taking SOS’s Air University Advanced Research Elective.

    Air University elective broadens SOS students’ research experience

    The Air University Advanced Research Elective was first introduced to students in 2018 as a vehicle to foster collaboration between SOS and the rest of the university.
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    Next-gen combat search and rescue helicopter takes flight

    The 413th Flight Test Squadron will be primary unit for developmental testing of combat search and rescue aircraft.
  • Yancy Mailes, Air Force Materiel Command historian, provides background information on the AFMC We Need initiative during cadre training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, July 15. More than 150 AFMC headquarters and center augmentees attended the training to prepare for the implementation of Phase II activities of the AFMC We Need initiative.

    AFMC We Need team to conduct focus groups across enterprise

    The Air Force Materiel Command’s AFMC We Need team will travel to operating locations across the command footprint to conduct in-person focus groups beginning July 22. The AFMC We Need enterprise-wide initiative, launched in late June, seeks inputs and recommendations from AFMC civilian and military Airmen that can help posture the command to best support the National Defense Strategy today and in the decades to come.
  • Brig. Gen. Heath Collins, Program Executive Officer for Fighters and Bombers and Joseph Bradley, director for CROWS, officially open a cyber defense facility for the Fighters and Bombers Directorate. (U.S. Air Force photo / Wesley Farnsworth)

    New cyber defense facility to augment weapons resiliency, threat protection

    One of the Air Force’s ongoing challenges is to create processes, infrastructure and capabilities to counter threats to its weapon systems. To address this, organizations are looking at creative ways to forge partnerships and alliances to advance the cyber resiliency of weapon systems by protecting information and eliminating communications barriers.
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