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  • Retired Senior Master Sgt. James Core III, an Air Force Junior ROTC instructor at Cypress Ridge High School, Houston, Texas, assists new instructors, June 20, during the Air Force Junior ROTC Instructor Certification Course held at the Air Force Senior NCO Academy at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama, June 12-21, 2019. Core was named the 2019 Air Force Junior ROTC Instructor of the Year, Aerospace Science Instructor category. (U.S. Air Force photo by William Birchfield)

    Air Force announces Junior ROTC instructors of the year

    The Air Force recognized the performance of two of the best instructors in its citizen development program by awarding them Air Force Junior ROTC Instructor of the Year awards for the 2018-2019 academic year. The selection announcement was made June 12, 2019, at Headquarters AFJROTC here.Retired Col. Gina Humble, Baltimore Polytech Institute,
  • The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Space Object Self-Tracker is a self-sufficient, low-cost, low-weight, and low-power experimental payload designed to demonstrate precise tracking capabilities for future Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management. AFIT’s Center for Space Research and Assurance designed, manufactured and tested the payload. The very first Department of Defense SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the hosted payload from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 24, 2019. (Contributed photo)

    DoD’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch to host AFIT’s Space Object Self-Tracker

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Space Object Self-Tracker flight experiment is set to launch on the Department of Defense’s first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on June 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The SOS is a self-sufficient, low-cost, low-weight, and low-power system designed to demonstrate
  • Lt. Col. Olivia Elliott, visited news station Fox 19 to talk about her career as an Air Force pilot to news anchor Rebecca Smith in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 11.As part of the DVD and digital release of the Captain Marvel movie, Elliott had the opportunity to share her experiences as a pilot. (U.S. Air Force photo/Stacey Geiger)

    Air Force pilot a real life Captain Marvel

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – She may not hold super powers like Capt. Carol Danvers but Lt. Col. Olivia Elliott is a marvel in her own right.When Elliott, who is currently enrolled at the Air Force Institute of Technology as part of the Advanced Academic Degree program working on her PhD in hypersonic aerodynamics, was six her father was

  • CCAF sets end date for Professional Manager Certification

    The Community College of the Air Force will no longer accept applications for the Professional Manager Certification program after Sept. 30, 2019.
  • Coalition partners graduate space capstone course in NSSI historic first

    Coalition partners graduate space capstone course in NSSI historic first

    A year after former Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. Heather Wilson, announced her initiative for an increased coalition partner participation in space education, the National Security Space Institute graduated its first Space 300 class with international space operators, May 10, 2019.
  • Kenley McAdams, from bioMASON, applies a feeding to the bacteria to harden the surface of the Project Medusa 2,500 square foot prototype in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of James O’Rourke)

    Future deployers: Don’t forget to feed the runway

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Blue Horizons Program at Air University is a CSAF-chartered, future-oriented think tank that creates and tests prototypes of new strategic concepts and capabilities.Three Blue Horizons Fellows, with different technical backgrounds, including a former member of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
  • Air University’s Communications Directorate, or AU/A6, recently implemented the Canvas learning management system into all Air University schools as a way to increase both student and teacher workflows as well as phasing out their previous LMS, Blackboard. Looking forward, the AU/A6 team said they will continue to provide agile and secure enterprise technology solutions to advance AU’s ability to develop total force Airmen.

    Air University phases out Blackboard with new learning management system

    The Air University Communications Directorate has been hard at work over the past 21 months implementing the Canvas learning management system into all Air University schools to improve student and teacher workflows and the gradual phasing out of its old LMS, Blackboard.
  • A Squadron Officer School students listen as they recieve initial feedback on their Think Tank elective presentation, May 31, 2019, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The students were given the challenge to figure out how Artificial Intelligence could be used to solve Air Force issues and better processes.

    SOS students pitch ideas to solve Air Force issues using Artificial Intelligence

    Air University’s Squadron Officer School students pitched their initial ideas on how to better certain processes within the Air Force to the school’s commandant, Col. Wayne Straw and a panel of subject matter experts, May 31, 2019, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
  • Retired Col. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris, and his wife, speak with Air Command and Staff College students, May 29, 2019, during the 38th annual Gathering of Eagles at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Harris was selected as an Eagle for his acts of leadership and courage during his time as a POW in Vietnam, where he introduced the tap code as a means for prisoners to communicate.

    Aviation legends visit AU for 38th annual Gathering of Eagles

    The annual ACSC capstone event invites aviation legends to AU to engage in community outreach opportunities and make military heritage come alive for ACSC students and faculty.
  • Air University Press announces the release of The Unofficial United States Guide to the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, assembling and cross-referencing multiple legal citations and sources in one convenient book.

    Air University Press releases unofficial US guide to Geneva Conventions of 1949

    Air University Press announces the release of The Unofficial United States Guide to the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, assembling and cross-referencing multiple legal citations and sources in one convenient book.
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