Research at USAFA 2013

Abstract

The mission of the United States Air Force Academy is to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation. This is accomplished through a combination of academic, military, athletic, and character development programs spread across the four-year experience. One of the primary ways we can develop these desired outcomes and give our future officers the skills they need to be successful is by having them conduct research that is relevant in today s highly technical, globally complex world. At the Academy, the top priority for any research is cadet development. Our faculty and staff play a critical role in this effort. According to U.S. News and World Report annual rankings, USAFA is consistently in the top 5% for accessibility to professors. This accessibility and the desire for cadets to learn and grow in a research environment are critical ingredients to the successful programs that have made USAFA so successful. Just as cadets are learning that research does not always follow a textbook approach, USAFA faculty are getting the opportunity to develop new skills as educators so they can energize their classes and make them truly learning focused. As our Air Force Academy cadets graduate to become officers of character for the U.S. Air Force, they are increasingly finding themselves in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Similar to conducting research, they will need to be able to take vague guidance on a task for which they are untrained, identify hurdles, and find a way to overcome them to be successful. They will be challenged to solve critical problems for the Air Force such as operating manned or unmanned aircraft, launching and controlling satellites, and protecting national security interests in the cyber domain. Future military operations will require innovative solutions to achieve our objectives in a resource-constrained environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA618162

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Engineers
  • Geography
  • Information Systems
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Science
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Renewable Energy
  • Students
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • STEM Education
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Cyber
  • Space