In just over 200 pages, a new book from the command historian at the Air Force Academy covers more than a century of airpower in a concise primer for newcomers and armchair historians.
When Air Force football visits Navy for their annual rivalry game Oct. 21 in Annapolis, Md., the Falcons will commemorate a seminal moment in U.S. airpower history—the Doolittle Raid. The U.S. Air Force Academy unveiled special alternate uniforms Aug. 15 as part of their annual “Air ...
U.S. President Joe Biden delivered remarks June 1 at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation ceremony—his first visit to USAFA as president. The full text and video of his speech is available here.
The U.S. Air Force Academy is doubling its sexual assault prevention and response (SAPR) workforce from 12 to 24 employees after a recent Pentagon report showed incidents rising across the service academies.
Blue skies graced Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colo., where 973 Air Force Academy cadets graduated May 25 and began careers facing unprecedented challenges and technological advances. There, commencement speaker Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III warned that adversaries are testing America’s values. “Today, America's ...
The U.S. Air Force Academy got its first Space Force permanent professor on April 29, as Col. Luke Sauter transferred over to the new service. Sauter, the Academy’s astronautics department head, joined the Space Force in a transfer ceremony presided over by Brig. Gen. Linell ...
The Air Force Academy has separated 22 students and put 210 on probation as a result of the widespread cheating scandal in the spring of 2020, the Academy’s superintendent told its Board of Visitors on April 13. All told, almost every disciplinary case from the ...
The Department of the Air Force’s annual Spark Tank competition takes place March 4, as six teams will take to the stage at the AFA Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla. Each team will pitch the most senior leaders in the Air and Space Forces on ...
Senior Air and Space Force leaders urged Air Force Academy cadets to be real and ready during the Academy's 2022 National Character and Leadership Symposium. Four of the top officers and enlisted leaders from the Department of the Air Force answered cadets’ questions on the ...
The Space Force’s second-in-command told Air Force Academy cadets attending a leadership conference that the U.S. will need machines to make decisions that kill—and that confronting the inherent ethical dilemmas “can’t wait.” The weapons' inevitability comes down to “the speed of war—how quickly things are ...
Reports of sexual assaults of service academy cadets and midshipmen have trended upward since 2014. Defense Department officials said Feb. 17 that record numbers reported in the most recent academic year could be due to a higher proportion of victims making official reports—something the academies ...
Cadets at the Air Force Academy can now practice flying everything from fighters to blimps while doing more real-world research into aircraft design for the military. The Academy’s Aeronautics Laboratory unveiled $8 million worth of new equipment Dec. 7, including two full-motion flight simulators and ...