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  • Staff Sgt. Shawn Montgomery, 437th Maintenance Squadron, takes a shot during a basketball game against Airmen of the 437th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron as part of the 437th Airlift Wing picnic at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., May 26. Attendees were able to compete in sports and play games during the event such as basketball, dodge ball, tug-of-war and ultimate Frisbee. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal)

    Towards Redefining Implementation of Personality Assessment in Professional Military Education

    One of the key aspects of developing strong leaders is deepening an understanding of one’s own personality and leadership style. Professional Military Education (PME) relies upon personality assessment to portray accurate depictions of personality traits so that leaders can deepen their understanding of their own psychological tendencies, strengths, and weaknesses.

  • (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Katelin D. Britton)

    Warrior Braids and the Air Force Women’s Initiative Team – The Invisible Labor behind Diversity, Inclusion, and Institutional Change

    Cast your gaze across the faces of US Air Force servicewomen in the days after 10 February 2021, and you cannot help but notice the joyous reaction to the service’s recent change in its hair standards for women.1 Ponytails are swinging free, braids are cascading down backs, and servicewomen are excelling in their military duties with a new edge of
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    The Integrated Resilience Program at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, 2019-2020

    In response to General David Goldfein’s call to fight “an adversary that is killing more of our airmen than any enemy on the planet,”1 Headquarters Air Force implemented Operation THURSDAY to address rising suicide numbers. From 1 August to 15 September 2019, this resilience tactical pause (RTP) sought to empower Airmen at the lowest level to
  • (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kathleen D. Bryant/Released)

    “Fight’s on. Commit. You’re Dead.” Why the United States’ Largest Training Ranges Are Too Small and How LVC Can Provide the Answer

    Executive SummaryThe United States is running out of room.Eielson AFB, Alaska, boasts claim to the Department of Defense’s (DOD) premier training venue, a range spanning over 1.5 million acres of maneuver land and 65,000 square miles of airspace known as the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC). It is the largest block of contiguous airspace
  • (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Tech. Sgt. David Salanitri)

    Satellite Servicing: A History, the Impact to the Space Force, and the Logistics Behind It

    IntroductionSatellite servicing is an important emerging technology not only to industry and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), but also to national security. Servicing technology should be of key interest for the United States Space Force (USSF) to research, and serviceability should be an even greater requirement pushed by the
  • A U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing takes off from the runway at Beale Air Force, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020. This flight marks a major leap forward for national defense as artificial intelligence took flight aboard a military aircraft for the first time in the history of the Department of Defense. The AI algorithm, developed by Air Combat Command’s U-2 Federal Laboratory, trained the AI to execute specific in-flight tasks that would otherwise be done by the pilot. The flight was part of a specifically constructed scenario pitting the AI against another dynamic computer algorithm in order to prove both the new technology capability, and its ability to work in coordination with a human. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Luis A. Ruiz-Vazquez)

    AI-Enabled War-in-the-Air

    It is a time of rapid disruptive technological change and none more so than in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). While developed by and for the commercial sector, AI’s apparent potential for military use is now pushing armed forces globally to begin experimenting with embryonic AI-enabled defense systems. There may be a considerable
  • (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicholas Dutton)

    Organizational Innovation to Achieve JADC2

    The US military is banking on technological solutions to usher in the future of effective military command and control in a joint and all-domain combat environment. While much has been written about the Air Force’s technical development of the advanced battle management system (ABMS), given the Army’s skepticism of the program as a panacea for
  • (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Ralph Branson)

    Better Models for Specialized Career Fields

    It’s no secret the Air Force is currently unable to fill cockpits for its aircraft due to a pilot shortage.1 Even with COVID-19 increasing retention from 46 percent of pilots to 51 percent, the service is still 2,000 pilots short, with no end in sight.2 The Air Force is attempting to fill the shortage by increasing pilot production and
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    Contingency Basing for Great Powers Competition

    This Air University Advanced Research paper focuses on applying the new context created from Great Powers Competition to military contingency basing.  The broad scope of this paper relates the emerging concepts of adaptive operations and Agile Combat Employment (ACE) to the challenge of basing in a contested environment. 

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    Your Stance against Child Sex Trafficking Is Threatening the National Security of the United States

    The authors describe “narrative warfare” and just how difficult it can be to combat. While the concept of creating, influencing, or spreading narratives with specific objectives is not new, interest in the practice has grown substantially with the rise of social media and online communication.
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