Changes are coming this year for Airmen taking professional military education (PME) distance learning courses. Closer interactions with facilitators, a revised capstone course, and more feedback on test performance are meant to improve the overall experience for distance learning students, who often include members of ...
The Air Force plans to make its enlisted professional military education courses available “on demand” for Airmen by late 2024, one of several sweeping changes the service announced Sept. 20 as part of a new “Enlisted Airmanship Continuum” for developing service members. Other changes include “Foundations Courses” ...
Department of the Air Force officers are about to get credit for their academic achievements: For the first time in years, Air Force and Space Force promotion boards will be told which able to see which candidates for major and lieutenant colonel have advanced academic ...
Some of the Space Force’s top officers will have a new option for intermediate- and senior-level developmental education starting in 2023. The Space Force announced a new partnership with Johns Hopkins University. The plan is to provide service-specific, in-residence programs at its School of Advanced ...
Professional military education must better prepare Airmen for real-world warfighting scenarios, commander of Air Education and Training Command Lt. Gen. Brian S. Robinson said at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. The Air Force's new educational approach aims to create combat leaders more coherently and ...
U.S. professional military education needs to be more rigorous and data-driven, and the military services need to do a better job of actually utilizing the skills service members learn through PME, lawmakers, academics, and Pentagon officials said in a congressional hearing. Summing up the concerns, ...
The Department of the Air Force’s annual Spark Tank competition takes place March 4, when six teams will take to the stage at the AFA Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla. Each team will make pitches to the most senior leaders in the Air and Space ...
The Joint Staff on Feb. 25 will unveil a new vision for developing enlisted leaders, shaping military education to develop noncommissioned officers who can lead joint service members to be better prepared for future wars, the military’s top enlisted leader announced at the Air Force ...
Airmen, from basic military training to graduate studies at Air University, need to increase their study and understanding of potential adversaries, such as China and Russia, to better understand the Air Force’s place in the world and the risk of potential conflicts, the service’s senior ...
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright called on Airmen to work together and treat each other with dignity in a divisive time, in his parting letter to the service. “Trust that we are all worthy individuals, who deserve respect and deserve ...
Pregnant Airmen and those who have given birth within the past 12 months may now attend professional military education without getting special permission or passing a fitness test first, according to a recent Air Force policy change. The decision about whether or not to attend ...
What started as an idea during a lunch at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., before the COVID-19 outbreak forced many Airmen to work remotely, has become a group of more than 11,000 people coming together online to learn and further their professional development. The Facebook ...