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AFIT Professor Receives Air Force Lifetime Achievement Award

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --  Air Force Institute of Technology Mr. Kenneth W. Bauer, Jr. has received the Air Force Analytic Community's Analysis/Lessons Learned Lifetime Achievement Award.

The award acknowledges Bauer's outstanding accomplishments as a teacher and mentor preparing forward-thinking officers for the Analysis, Assessments, and Lessons Learned community, while simultaneously leading ground-breaking research of high impact.

Mr. Bauer expertise in Hyper-Spectral Imagery and Automatic Target Recognition and his work with AFIT students resulted in key breakthroughs in important new operational arenas for the Air Force and Department of Defense, significantly enhancing the application of aerospace power and its effects on joint war-fighting capabilities. His teaching and research impact is exemplified by his direction of student research which developed an imaging processing algorithm being flown on the Tactical Satellite-3, launched in May 2009.

During Bauer's career at AFIT, which started in 1987, he has published widely in the most many journals, authored two book chapters, has a patent, and his work has been cited hundreds of times in archived journals and text books, including two noted texts having sections devoted to his student supervised research. He has graduated an amazing 115 masters and doctoral students, winning the AFIT Commandant's award for best thesis three times, and developed a unique sequences of courses in pattern recognition taken by students throughout the Institute.

Mr. Bauer has more than 34 years of distinguished service as an Air Force analyst, with the last 20 plus on faculty in AFIT's Department of Operational Sciences. During his AFIT tenure, he has won every teaching award offered by the Institute, including the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Professor Award. Mr. Bauer's lifetime achievement award was announced at the Annual Air Force Analysis, Assessments, and Lessons Learned Conference.