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June 24, 2019
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,
June 21, 2019
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
June 14, 2019
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.
June 11, 2019
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.
June 11, 2019
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
June 10, 2019
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.
June 7, 2019
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.
June 4, 2019
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.
June 3, 2019
Air University Press releases summer 2019 edition of SSQ

Air University Press just released the summer 2019 edition of Strategic Studies Quarterly, available at https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/SSQ/.
May 30, 2019
2019 Secretary of the Air Force Awards

Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and Lt. Gen. Anthony Cotton, Air University commander and president, both center, stand with recipients of the 2019 Secretary of the Air Force Leadership Award May 14, 2019, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Secretary Wilson met with the recipients during

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