News - Category Force Development

June 17, 2024
85th EIS tests capabilities in natural disaster exercise

The 85th Engineering Installation Squadron conducted a Cyberspace Infrastructure Damage Assessment and Restoral Actions exercise, May 16 – 23. Given that a higher-than-average number of hurricanes is predicted for the 2024 hurricane season, the exercise was organized to test the unit’s crisis
June 14, 2024
42 ABW launches Operation Lethal Backbone to strengthen junior NCO leadership

The 42nd Air Base Wing has successfully completed the inaugural session of its innovative Non-Commissioned Officer course, Operation Lethal Backbone, from March 20-22. This groundbreaking program, meticulously crafted by a dedicated team of Senior Non-Commissioned Officer cadre, aims to equip newly
June 13, 2024
Developmental Special Experiences: MEPCOM, National Training Institute Workshop opportunities available

Developmental Special Experiences provide Air and Space Professionals opportunities more than just education and training opportunities, they help the service build the Airmen needed for the future high-end fight.
June 13, 2024
ALS Distance Learning 2.0 Launch

Air University’s Airman Leadership School Distance Learning 2.0 is officially launching June 17, 2024, as part of the Global College of Professional Military Education at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
June 12, 2024
Pittsburgh, Pediatrics, and the People: Retiring AF-SG shares story, leadership ethos and personal growth

Lt. Gen. Robert Miller reflects on his career, discussing where it began, lessons he learned throughout his military career and the impact he hopes to leave on his fellow Airmen.
June 10, 2024
AFCDA: Reimagining learning

Under Second Air Force, the Air Force Career Development Academy is modernizing the way Airmen and Guardians continue to learn later in their careers by redesigning how they structure career development courses (CDCs).
June 6, 2024
AFIT professor earns Harold Brown award

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio - Air Force Institute of Technology faculty member Scott Nykl received the 2023 Harold Brown Award for his groundbreaking research on computer vision-based relative navigation for autonomous aerial refueling.He is the second AFIT faculty member to win this
June 5, 2024
Keesler team hosts occupational competency seminar

Air Education and Training Command officials conducted an occupational competency seminar covering two career fields – command and control battle management operations, Air Force specialty code 1C5X1, and command and control operations, AFSC 1C3X1, here, March 18-21. Airmen and Guardians attend
June 5, 2024
AFCLC’s course for Ready Airman Training updated – same value, half the time

To streamline cultural competence education for the Total Force at an accelerated rate, the Air Force Culture and Language Center modified its Developing Cultural Competence (DCC) course from a projected completion time of 2.5 hours to 60 minutes while maintaining the course’s academic integrity.
June 4, 2024
Schoolhouse Rock: Sheppard Air Force Base

he schoolhouses at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, are helping equip the next generation of civil engineers with the knowledge and skills to prepare for the future fight.