JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) —
Any future combat in opposition to a near-peer adversary will demand the U.S. Air Power ship combat-effective, agile and adaptive airpower at scale. This may require Airmen who could make high quality selections on the velocity essential for competitors and fight timelines, and growing future leaders who can do the identical.
In keeping with Division of the Air Power’s efforts to reoptimize for Nice Energy Competitors, leaders at Air Training and Coaching Command are following by means of on upgrading the service’s improvement ecosystem with a purpose of offering digital-age coaching and training in alignment with the evolving wants of the warfighter.
“Reimagining our present method to coaching and educating Airmen for GPC holds the potential for transformative change throughout a number of dimensions,” stated Dr. Wendy Walsh, AETC chief studying officer. “Some great benefits of this method embody the centered potential to quickly recruit, prepare and educate Airmen with the competencies required to satisfy the evolving calls for of joint pressure commanders within the GPC panorama according to the Air Power Future Working Idea.”
So, what precisely is the event ecosystem?
“In case you’re trying on the set of instruments that an Airman will work together with over the course of their Air Power careers, the event ecosystem spans everything of coaching and training experiences they encounter from accession to retirement,” Walsh stated. “This consists of the instruction they obtain at primary navy coaching, at technical coaching or at undergraduate flying coaching, and onward to their expertise throughout skilled navy training programs and of their items within the operational instructions.”
In accordance with Walsh, the event ecosystem doesn’t cease after preliminary primary navy, technical coaching or undergraduate flying coaching; reasonably it’s a competency-based, human-centered studying continuum that’s knowledgeable and pushed by a myriad of studying knowledge and information, orientating the pressure to measurable, mission-focused outcomes.
“As soon as Airmen exit to their operational wings, the query is how will we proceed to develop them in each their foundational and occupational competencies to allow them to do their job higher, making them simpler Airmen, teammates and finally leaders,” Walsh stated. “Constructing competency integration and studying design establishes a learner-centric mannequin anchored to mission-command and the strategic context of GPC and is divorced from the economic age ‘pipelines’ or ‘coaching conveyor belts’ of the previous.”
Quickly codifying competencies required for GPC has been a prime precedence within the command.
“At present, over half of the Air Power’s profession fields are implementing competency-based coaching plans with a purpose to have all profession fields full by summer time of 2025,” stated Col. Sandra Coble who leads headquarters AETC’s competencies division. “We’re transferring quick to perform this coaching transformation figuring out precisely how vital that is to Air Power readiness.”
Competencies additionally present a framework by which the Power Improvement enterprise can manage, categorize and pursue knowledge sources essential for data-driven insights to assist items assess total readiness for particular missions.
“Putting a stability between expertise administration and operational wants is a posh problem, however the integration of expertise administration processes with pressure improvement provides the chance for extra environment friendly useful resource allocation,” stated Col. Jason Turner, AETC’s deputy director for pressure improvement. “This alignment ensures that AETC produces Airmen with the precise competencies on the proper time, for the precise place, enhancing total readiness and effectiveness.”
A serious step in aligning expertise administration and operational wants is underway with the on-going improvement of the DAF Studying Report.
“Consider the DAFLR as a dynamic transcript of your studying and competencies, representing a person digital portfolio consolidating learning-specific info for complete pressure Airmen and Guardians from 32 authoritative knowledge sources,” Turner stated. “The intent is to supply a one-stop, near-real-time, validated document of a person’s training, coaching and expertise throughout a learner’s profession.”
DAFLR consists of 32 authoritative knowledge sources, resembling MyLearning, MyVector, the Army Personnel Information System, the Protection Civilian Personnel Information System, the Training and Coaching Administration System and extra.
“Commanders, their staffs and each Airman and Guardian may have entry to near-real-time studying info guiding force-development selections, together with selections that may influence operational readiness in assist of agile fight employment,” Turner stated. “DAFLR will improve lethality by means of data of what navy and civilian personnel know and may do, helping commanders in growing the precise Airmen and Guardians on the proper time for the precise mission.”
The 2-way partnership between AETC and operational instructions, might be a vital consider total pressure improvement.
“[AETC] is offering a service that spreads throughout all the DAF,” Turner stated. “It’s the matching between the event that an individual receives whereas they’re in AETC with the place the mission wants are when they’re despatched out to their operational items. This requires a suggestions loop the place the operational instructions can request coaching, after which obtain that coaching and never have to attend to ship that particular person again to a proper schoolhouse. Having the ability to upskill in actual time to satisfy the wants of the warfighter on the level of want.”
As an instance the purpose of what a profitable future improvement ecosystem seems to be like, Turner gave the instance of a staff at Andersen Air Power Base, Guam, growing a brand new coaching methodology demonstrating refuel a B-52 Stratofortress in an austere setting. To quickly share that info throughout the enterprise, that new coaching module can quickly be taken again to the plane’s residence station at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, and be carried out there in real-time to match operational want throughout a battle.
“Our present ecosystem has pockets of excellence all over the place, with nice leaders doing progressive issues,” Walsh stated. “Our future success means getting our studying ecosystem to successfully join throughout institutional and operational instructions, to establish and prepare with a competency-based method, to share greatest practices and collaborate on incorporate digital age expertise into improvement, and to adapt studying alternatives when and the place wanted for mission readiness.”
By Dan Hawkins, Air Training Coaching Command Public Affairs
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