October 4, 2018

Academy cadets defeat Ca. State-Long Beach in Moot Court competition

By Ray Bowden, Oct. 4, 2018 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Cadets at the Air Force Academy took legal matters into their own hands by winning the top slot at a collegiate legal competition September 21. The Academy’s Moot Court Team hosted the Falcon Class International competition against California State-Long Beach. Cadets 1st Class Rachel Kester and Josh West took home the championship trophy. “It’s a significant victory,” said Prof. Doug McKechnie of the Academy’s Law Department. “After a grueling six hours of oral arguments before a mock supreme court, they won the invite.” Kester and West said the...

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November 15, 2018

Update: Falcon SAT 6 satellite lifts off on Space X rocket, Dec. 3

Faculty members and cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy wait to receive "first contact" from the cadet-designed FalconSAT-6 satellite that successfully launched into space just before noon, Dec. 3, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joshua Armstrong) Story by Jennifer Spradlin, Dec. 3, 2018 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- A satellite designed and built by Air Force Academy cadets successfully launched into space just after 11:30 a.m. (MT), Dec. 3. The FalconSAT-6 satellite was originally slated for a Nov. 19 lift-off but modifications and a change of launch vehicles delayed the launch. Lt. Col. Luke Sauter, head of the Academy’s Astronautics...

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November 16, 2018

Air Force vice chief of staff presents honor to Cadet of the Year

By Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs, Nov. 16, 2018 WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Cadet 1st Class Kyle Haak was honored as the British Air Squadron’s 2018 Cadet of the Year during a ceremony Nov. 6, 2018, at the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia. During the ceremony, presided over by Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen Wilson, Haak was recognized for his demonstrated excellence in academics, military skills, and athletics while enrolled at the U.S. Air Force Academy. “He is the epitome of a scholar, leader and an athlete; he is the epitome of the American Airman,” Wilson said....

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February 19, 2019

Academy to host former SECDEF at Leadership Symposium

  U.S. Air Force Academy Public Affairs, Nov. 19, 2019 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.  – – Leon E. Panetta, former Secretary of Defense and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is scheduled to be a keynote speaker for the annual National Character and Leadership Symposium at the Air Force Academy, Feb. 21-22. The annual event brings together thought leaders from diverse backgrounds to speak about the importance of sound moral character and leadership. Also scheduled to present are Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright and Caryl Stern, president and CEO of United Nations International Children’s Emergency...

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December 26, 2018

10th Medical Group at Air Force Academy enhances patient care with mobile computing

Senior Airman Luis Zetina-Rios, a medical technician at the U.S. Air Force Academy's Family Health Clinic, uses mobile computing Dec. 21, 2018 to improve patient services. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jennifer Spradlin) By Jennifer Spradlin, Dec. 26, 2018 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. --   Health care providers at the Air Force Academy Clinic are using new technology today to increase efficiency. The Medical Information Services Flight Team collaborated with 22nd Century Technologies to create a mobile computing solution that unchained health care providers from their desks and reduced the need for paper documentation. “The mobile tablet allows me to...

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February 19, 2019

Academy officials host final accreditation town hall meeting

(U.S. Air Force Academy photo) By Ray Bowden, Feb. 19, 2019 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. --  Air Force Academy officials are close to putting a stamp on the report they’ll show the Higher Learning Commission in April. The report or argument as the HLC refers to it, is a document that shows how the school stays in line with the commission’s criteria. “Our argument really walks through our institutional structure pretty well,” said Col. Dan Uribe, Academy point man for the academic side of the accreditation and head of the school’s foreign languages department. “The argument shows the quality of...

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February 11, 2019

Academy’s Academic Success Center is a ‘one stop shop’ for cadets

Cadets at the Air Force Academy study and get advice from a faculty member in the school's Academic Success Center, ASC. (U.S. Air Force Academy photo) By U.S. Air Force Academy Public Affairs, Feb. 11, 2019 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Cadets at the Air Force Academy said the school’s Academic Success Center in Fairchild Hall helps them succeed in the classroom. “It’s like a one-stop-shop,” said Cadet 3rd Class Kelly Motes, a geospatial science major. “I can get help with my papers from the writing center and with my physics and engineering mechanics problems in the Quantitative Reasoning Center.”...

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February 4, 2019

Air Force Space Command commander visits Academy cadets at Warrior Weekend

Gen. Jay Raymond, commander of Air Force Space Command and the Joint Force Space Component Command, speaks to cadets at the Air Force Academy to kick-off Warrior Weekend at Arnold Hall, Jan. 25, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley) By Jennifer Spradlin, Feb. 4, 2019 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Gen. Jay Raymond, the commander of Air Force Space Command and the Joint Force Space Component Command, spoke to cadets at the Air Force Academy to kick-off Warrior Weekend at Arnold Hall, Jan. 25. Raymond has served much of his 34-year Air Force career in AFSPC and shared a brief...

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January 31, 2019

Academy professor leads new DoD hypersonic research institute

(U.S. Air Force photo/Joshua Armstrong) By Jennifer Spradlin, Jan. 31, 2019 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound in 1947, and the Air Force has never looked back. The Air Force partnered with NASA to develop and test the X-15, a hypersonic, rocket-powered aircraft in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. A great deal of human capital and money was invested in making the leap from supersonic to hypersonic -- the potential to travel at five times the speed of sound or more than 3,000 mph. But a series of near misses and...

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January 30, 2019

Academy celebrates research efforts at annual ceremony

Brig. Gen. Andrew Armacost, the dean of the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy, speaks to the crowd attending the annual research awards ceremony in Polaris Hall, Jan. 29, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley) By Ray Bowden, Jan. 30, 2019 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- This year’s research programs at the Air Force Academy were funded to the tune of $40 million and that cost is paying off in dividends, said the dean of faculty at the school’s research awards ceremony, Jan. 29. “The efforts of our cadets and faculty researchers complement everything we do in the classroom,”...

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