Download or read book The Redesigned Air Force Continuum of Learning written by Darryl L. Roberson and published by Air University Press Curtis E. Lemay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this article, we will briefly review the disruptive forces that are driving change across our Air Force, share some insights into how our sister services are reacting to similar pressures in terms of their force-development strategies, review what our senior leaders approved, and describe how we are moving ahead with this new, force-development paradigm. This new approach will eventually affect every aspect of force development, so it is important that all Airmen understand what we are doing and why we are doing it.--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Redesigned Air Force Continuum of Learning Rethinking Force Development for the Future Modularized Blended On Command On Demand and Competency Based Learning Initiatives written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USAF Strategic Master Plan posited five strategic vectors to help prioritize investments, drive institutional change, and operationalize key concepts. These included providing effective twenty-first-century deterrence; maintaining a robust and flexible global intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability; ensuring a full-spectrum capable, high-end focused force; pursuing a multidomain approach to the Air Force's five core missions; and continuing to pursue game-changing technologies. Arguably Air Education and Training Command (AETC) supports all of these vectors; however, the call for a full-spectrum capable, high-end focused force falls squarely within the AETC mission. AETC was tasked with preparing for the future, yet much of what we deliver under the banner of force development is lodged in a learning paradigm that has not altered substantially since the creation of our service.The Human Capital Annex states: World class application of airpower requires a highly specialized and competent workforce developed through deliberate training, education, and leadership experiences. The development of a technically competent Airman can take years and, as such, the Air Force must take steps to leverage and retain that investment. It is imperative that we develop a holistic strategy for attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining the right Total Force Airmen that meet the needs of the Air Force in a cost effective way. . . . The need for Airmen who possess the right occupational skills and institutional competencies forms the core requirement of force development. Where occupational competencies are required to build technical depth, the Air Force's institutional competencies are key to ensuring the ability of Airmen to operate successfully in a constantly changing environment at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.The Air Force is not alone in facing the challenges and opportunities of the contemporary context. In his testimony to the House Armed Services Committee in June 2017, SecDef James Mattis noted the Department of Defense must "be prepared to deal with technological, operational, and tactical surprise, which requires changes to the way we train and educate our leaders and our forces." The depth and breadth of emergent threats and the potential of existent opportunities have driven all of the US military services to reconsider their operating concepts.

Download or read book Redesigned Air Force Continuum of Learning Rethinking Force Development for the Future written by Darryl L. Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strengthening U S Air Force Human Capital Management written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USAir Force human capital management (HCM) system is not easily defined or mapped. It affects virtually every part of the Air Force because workforce policies, procedures, and processes impact all offices and organizations that include Airmen and responsibilities and relationships change regularly. To ensure the readiness of Airmen to fulfill the mission of the Air Force, strategic approaches are developed and issued through guidance and actions of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Strengthening US Air Force Human Capital Management assesses and strengthens the various U.S. Air Force initiatives and programs working to improve person-job match and human capital management in coordinated support of optimal mission capability. This report considers the opportunities and challenges associated with related interests and needs across the USAF HCM system as a whole, and makes recommendations to inform improvements to USAF personnel selection and classification and other critical system components across career trajectories. Strengthening US Air Force Human Capital Management offers the Air Force a strategic approach, across a connected HCM system, to develop 21st century human capital capabilities essential for the success of 21st century Airmen.

Download or read book Air Force Continuum of Learning written by Scott C. Linck and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2014 the Secretary of the Air Force (SECAF) called for an increase in strategic agility across the service. The Air Force Chief of Staff (CSAF) responded to this call to action, in part, by changing the Air Force's approach to Force Development. In 2017, the Commander, Air Education and Training Command (AETC) was designated as the service's Force Development commander allowing for consolidation, review and transformation of the service's training, education and leadership experiences. The effort focused on the Air Force's Continuum of Learning, introducing five initiatives designed to deliver the intellectual and operational agility needed to meet future challenges. This article examines these initiatives and discusses how the Air Force and AETC intends to use these Continuum of Learning initiatives to make learning more efficient and effective across the Air Force. After identifying the potential benefits and possible liabilities of each initiative, the article argues that the redesign will only be successful if supported by an andragogical educational model. This learning ecosystem must provide Airmen with an understanding of the educational process, explain why the skills presented are important to them (either professionally or personally), provide an environment conducive to learning and collaboration, and establish a feedback process that samples program success throughout the educational process. An andragogical educational superstructure that supports these adult learning requirements is required to deliver the intellectual and operational agility demanded by the CSAF."--Abstract.

Download or read book Officer Education written by John W. Pearse and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Air Force Professional Military Education (PME) program is stuck in the academic traditions of the past. In an information era with exponential technological growth, the Air Force PME programs are still teaching linear thinking with a historical orientation. In Air War College, less than 10 out of over 700 contact hours are devoted to future thinking and technology. Air Force leaders are expected to envision the future and adapt to surprise. Are we preparing them for this task? Exponential change refers to a compounded rate of increase. The world has entered a period where an exponential increase in new information and technology will continue through 2035 causing significant changes in society, and thus warfare. Adding complexity are current trends toward conflict that permeates all aspects of society. Some futurists see a transformation from an information age to a virtual age within the next 30 years with as yet indiscernible major changes to a globalized virtual society. Higher education is evolving toward a learner-centered education teaching a workforce committed to lifelong learning. Business seeks people with the ability to apply creative critical thinking and a future orientation in a collaborative environment. The Air Force will require even more of its leaders to anticipate and adapt to rapidly changing threats. As war is a human enterprise, we must transform the way we educate our leaders to prepare them for the complex world of 2035. First, the need for Air Force leaders with discerning vision is critical. Current PME stresses the study of the past as a tool to enlighten the path to the future. Future studies should be incorporated in the curriculum in conjunction with historical study across the continuum of education (COE) to provide Air Force leaders with tools to visualize potential futures. Second, Air Force officers will likely face surprising or unique situations in the future due to the complexity that will permeate future society; they must learn skills to adapt quickly. Decision-making exercises, primarily in the form of wargames, should be added across the COE to build future leader adaptability skills. Third, the exponential increase in technology requires technical literacy for future leaders to thrive. Threats in the future will include unique combinations of readily available advanced commercial technology. Air Force officers need exposure to current and future technology across the COE to open the aperture on the realm of the possible. This should include exposure to industry and the acquisition process. The focus should not be on specific technical skills but on the capabilities and limitations of technology to enable Air Force officers to make educated judgments on the possible implications of future military capabilities and threats. Fourth, lifelong learning must become an inculcated reality. The skill sets and knowledge base officers will require to deal with future challenges necessitates a continuous learning process throughout an officer's career. A broad knowledge base will also be essential to enable future Air Force officers to rapidly adapt to new complex situations. Quality distance learning opportunities are available now from civilian institutions - the Air Force program should at a minimum, emulate them. Finally, these recommendations should not be incorporated individually in a piecemeal fashion. The Air Force requires a comprehensive strategic implementation plan. Air Education and Training Command took a good first step in the On Learning white paper by advocating transformation to a virtual reality enterprise. The content within the virtual reality system needs equal consideration. A chief learning officer (CLO) should be identified and empowered to make immediate changes. The CLO should consider the future operating environment and determine the attributes and skill sets required for current and future Air Force personnel. With the desired outcomes determined, effective approaches and curriculum to develop these characteristics should be developed and communicated in a strategic force development plan. Officers who will lead the Air Force in 2035 are already in the current PME system. The traditional Air Force PME factory must give way to lifelong education across academic disciplines to equip our future leaders with a broad knowledge base. The current in-residence programs are hampered by redundant core courses, which can be covered through mandatory distance learning. PME transformation requires a cultural change within the Air Force that accepts exponential change as a fact of life and in turn values lifelong learning as a necessity for future success. Creating a sense of urgency about the need for transformation is equally necessary. Air Force PME requires urgent action to successfully transform."--Abstract from web site.

Download or read book Air Force Non Rated Technical Training written by Lisa M. Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies opportunities for optimizing processes and policies in the U.S. Air Force nonrated technical training pipeline and recommends process and policy changes that could improve efficiency at all levels.

Download or read book The Air Force Way of War written by Brian D. Laslie and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Laslie chronicles how the Air Force worked its way from the catastrophe of Vietnam through the triumph of the Gulf War, and beyond.” —Robert M. Farley, author of Grounded The U.S. Air Force’s poor performance in Operation Linebacker II and other missions during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, when strategic bombers attacking targets were expected to take heavy losses. Warfare had changed by the 1960s, but the USAF had not adapted. Between 1972 and 1991, however, the Air Force dramatically changed its doctrines and began to overhaul the way it trained pilots through the introduction of a groundbreaking new training program called “Red Flag.” In The Air Force Way of War, Brian D. Laslie examines the revolution in pilot instruction that Red Flag brought about after Vietnam. The program’s new instruction methods were dubbed “realistic” because they prepared pilots for real-life situations better than the simple cockpit simulations of the past, and students gained proficiency on primary and secondary missions instead of superficially training for numerous possible scenarios. In addition to discussing the program’s methods, Laslie analyzes the way its graduates actually functioned in combat during the 1980s and ’90s in places such as Grenada, Panama, Libya, and Iraq. Military historians have traditionally emphasized the primacy of technological developments during this period and have overlooked the vital importance of advances in training, but Laslie’s unprecedented study of Red Flag addresses this oversight through its examination of the seminal program. “A refreshing look at the people and operational practices whose import far exceeds technological advances.” —The Strategy Bridgei

Download or read book Improving 21st Century Skills in the U S Air Force written by Rebecca Herman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The job skills needed for today-and tomorrow-are rapidly changing. Advances in technology mean workers must be trained in cognitive and interpersonal skills that help them adapt to new requirements. These skills are known as 21st century skills. In this Perspective, the authors share research from the private and education sectors on 21st century skills-and suggest ways in which further exploration could inform and improve U.S. Air Force efforts to increase agility of its airmen. The authors give a brief definition of 21st century skills and compare the term's common competencies to those of the Air Force. The research approaches suggested could ultimately inform the continuum of learning and development in the Air Force."--Publisher's description

Download or read book On Learning written by United States. Air Force. Air Education and Training Command and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Air Education and Training Command leaders released a vision for an Air Force learning transformation Jan. 31 when they unveiled "On Learning: The Future of Air Force Education and Training." The 29-page white paper details how the Air Force can transform its training and education system of today into a continuous learning culture to meet the Air Force missions of tomorrow. The transformation will take place between 2008 and 2030."--AETC web site.

Download or read book Cross cultural Skills for Deployed Air Force Personnel written by Chaitra M. Hardison and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of its strong interest in providing airmen with the cross-cultural skills that have grown ever more essential to successful mission accomplishment in foreign environments, the Air Force asked RAND to provide a foundation for the design of a comprehensive Air Force program of cross-cultural training and education. RAND researchers responded by first creating a taxonomy covering all behaviors relevant to cross-cultural performance after the need for such a taxonomy became evident from a review of the literature on cross-cultural performance and discussions with Air Force personnel. From this taxonomy, the researchers developed a framework of 14 categories of cross-cultural behaviors--nine categories of enabling behaviors and five of goal-oriented behaviors. This framework was then used in designing a survey for 21,000 recently deployed airmen that asked them to rate the importance of the behaviors to their deployed performance and the helpfulness of training they had received in the behaviors (both over their careers and just prior to deployment). Respondents were also asked to indicate how much training they had received. Recommendations and suggestions for the design of a comprehensive program of cross-cultural training and education and for further research steps were made based on extensive analyses of the results, which included determining whether training needs differed by AFSC, grade (enlisted/officer), and deployment location.

Download or read book Lorenz on Leadership written by Stephen R Lorenzt and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sierra Hotel flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.

Download or read book The Air Force Education Services Program written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Professional Military Education for Air Force Officers written by Air University (U.S.). Press and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Leveraging Affective Learning for Developing Future Airmen Cognitive Affective and Psychomotor Domains Instructional Design Process Online and Technology Learning Environments written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of Air Education and Training Command (AETC) is to empower our nation's Airmen to fly, fight, and win by "delivering unrivaled air, space, and cyberspace education and training." However, realizing this vision in today's highly interactive, information-saturated, and global environment is tougher than ever. Mission success requires knowledge-enabled Airmen who understand, appreciate, trust, and internalize the tactics, techniques, processes, and procedures necessary to succeed in any number of complex situations.As leaders at all levels, our Airmen must be able to anticipate and appropriately respond to a complicated and fluid national security environment. Developing such Airmen will require stronger commitments to education and training on the part of the learner to the point where learning never stops. Fostering this highly favorable attitude toward learning is possible only if Air Force education and training programs address learners' goals, motivations, social interactions, and individual learning styles. This means the Air Force needs a stronger focus on affective learning during the instructional design (ID) process for education and training.The ability to handle complex problems across a wide spectrum of missions is not acquired through traditional rote-learning practices that merely assess an individual's ability to memorize facts in the short term. Air Force learning processes must facilitate intuitive understanding and personal internalization of often conflicting concepts, applications, and decision-making models. Effective education and training methods must recognize the filters and perceptions individuals will employ to frame a solution to any number of problem sets. Relying solely on a cognitive learning approach for leadership development is quickly being eclipsed by a drive to understand and employ affective methods to enhance learning and internalize decision-making skills

Download or read book Developing Your Full Range of Leadership written by Fil J. Arenas and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is a daunting subject for most developing leaders, but eventually all followers will be called upon to lead. Where do we start? What model or theory do we utilize? The choices become overwhelming for anyone attempting online searches. Everywhere you look are leadership books, programs, degrees, workshops, seminars, boot camps, and even mobile apps! Many organizations at Air University are utilizing the full range of leadership approach. Initially introduced by James MacGregor Burns in 1978 and Bernard Bass in1985, these transformational and transactional leadership styles have sustained nearly four decades. Through (1) idealized transformational leader behaviors, one may raise the levels of his or her ethical and moral values while committing to "doing the right thing" for himself or herself and his or her followers: (2) by using inspirational motivation, leaders learn to articulate a vision to energize followers to accomplish more than they ever thought possible; (3) by intellectually stimulating followers, leaders will challenge followers to create and innovate as they reframe problems with renewed visions; and by providing individualized consideration, leaders may learn to incorporate each member's distinct gifts and talents as individual contributors to the organizational team. These transformational behaviors can offer connections to reaching (4) authentic transformational leadership by incorporating not only ethics and values but also, according to John Sosik, virtues and character strengths to refine one's leadership acumen, ameliorating leader-follower dynamics