MAY 15, 2024 - Engineers from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) successfully installed core software in the Air Force’s future Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) facility at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada bringing the service closer to operating its own next-generation training and test facility. Nellis is the Air Force’s premier training and test … [Read more...]
Air Force Acquisition Instructor Course Open for Nominations
MAY 15, 2024 - Nominations are open now through July 26, 2024, for Class 25A of the Department of the Air Force Acquisition Instructor Course. Class 25A will run Jan. 6, 2025, to June 13, 2025. AQIC is a five-and-one-half month course operating under a strategic partnership with the U.S. Air Force Weapons School to develop operationally informed acquisition professionals as … [Read more...]
Modeling, Simulation Summit Transformation
U.S. Air Force Capt. Allen Upchurch, student with the Air Force Manpower Analysis Agency, tests out a training simulator during the 2024 Department of the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Summit in San Antonio, Texas, May 8, 2024. Attendees heard from various experts across the Department of Defense on various topics relating to “Training in a Digital World,” the theme for … [Read more...]
Shattering the Glass Ceiling at Mach 2.5
MAY 14, 2024 - When someone says fighter pilot…what do you picture? Perhaps a mustached doppelganger of Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise clad in aviator sunglasses strutting on to the flightline. And while there may be more than a few “Maverick” and “Ice Man” fighter pilots in the Land of No Slack, that is not the only persona one sees. At this moment, there are two female fighter … [Read more...]
US Aid for Honduras Tops 6 Million Pounds
MAY 14, 2024 - A KC-46A Pegasus from the 931st Air Refueling Wing, McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, delivered 12 pallets of cargo for the Denton Program at Soto Cano Air Base, May 8. The Denton Program is a Department of Defense humanitarian assistance transportation program that moves humanitarian cargo, donated by United States-based non-governmental organizations to … [Read more...]