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Force Development Defined

Force Development: The deliberate effort to maximize force readiness through a variety of recruiting, educational, training, and experiential learning activities, opportunities, and services ensuring all Airmen and Guardians possess the competencies they need to meet DAF mission requirements.

For current information on many force development initiatives, click here to jump to the Learning Professionals and FD Credentials Division web page.

  • Air University reorganizing command structure for Great Power Competition

    The university’s next evolutionary step in developing the human weapon system includes streamlining the headquarters’ staff and consolidating in-resident officer professional military education in a single center.  The added command echelons will facilitate the execution of mission command by

  • 60th Fighter Squadron Crows develop the skills and mindset for future combat

    The 60th Fighter Squadron and Aircraft Maintenance Unit conducted off-station training at Savannah Air National Guard Base, Georgia Feb. 2-22, 2024 where they aimed to maximize flight hours in the F-35A Lightning II by avoiding weather attrition, while learning to navigate a new airspace and working

  • MWD Scheduling Cell keeps senior leaders safe

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – When the military is tasked with protecting national leaders and foreign dignitaries, it’s not just boots on the ground … it’s dog paws too.  The Air Force Security Forces Center performs the central role in providing military working dog support to the

  • Conditioning a force of fitness and strength

    The 81st Training Group has developed a Military Training Leader Strength and Conditioning course to support Air Force wide human performance efforts. The course is designed to teach in-depth fitness skills with an emphasis on proper form and quality movements.

  • AF Logistics Enterprise Council holds winter meeting at Sheppard

    The 82nd Training Wing hosted the Air Force A4 Enterprise Council for its 2024 winter meeting Feb. 26-27, after a virtual session held Feb. 23.With the meeting focused on “Developing the Airmen We Need,” Sheppard was a natural choice to host – the 82nd provides the lion’s share of officer and

  • AWC uses wargame to prepare for GPC

    As the education arm chartered with equipping the force and preparing for success in great power competition, Air University students attending Air War College have been entrenched in an ongoing wargame focused on a Pacific conflict.

  • Chief orientation prepares selects for the next level

    The Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education welcomed 483 chief master sergeant-selects from across the globe to Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Feb. 20 – 23, for the 2024 Chief Master Sergeant Orientation.

  • JADE FORGE: Enhancing the lethality of intelligence Airmen and joint partners

    JADE FORGE stands for Joint All-Domain Expeditionary Forward Operations Readiness Generation Exercise. It’s a sixth-generation intelligence training initiative at Goodfellow AFB that gives joint service intelligence warriors assigned to the 17th Training Group the opportunity to battle a formidable

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