Nov. 14, 2019 SOS expands senior mentor program, advances squadron revitalization efforts Squadron Officer School is tapping into the rich and deep pool of experience around the Air University campus to enhance the leadership education and personal growth of the next generation of leaders.What was up until recently an academic requirement giving senior leaders less than two hours to
Oct. 31, 2019 Ideas to transform space warfighting training, innovation workspaces named AETC Spark Tank 2020 Challenge winners Ideas to transform space warfighting training and how to best build a culture of innovation were named Air Education and Training Command Spark Tank 2020 Challenge winners, officials announced Oct. 31, 2019.
Aug. 5, 2019 Air University’s SOS revamps Think Tank model, AI-aided PCS proposal draws attention Faculty at Air University’s Squadron Officer School have streamlined and updated a popular elective designed to challenge students to come up with creative solutions to some of the Air Force’s nagging problems.
Aug. 2, 2019 Squadron Officer School change of command Col. Ricky L. Mills took over as the commander and commandant of Squadron Officer School from Col. Wayne W. Straw during a change of command ceremony August 2, 2019, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
July 12, 2019 Air University elective broadens SOS students’ research experience A new elective at Squadron Officer School is connecting some of the school’s innovative students with Air University’s vast body of research topics, extensive academic and military networks and expansive repository of information.
June 26, 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 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 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.