U.S. Air Force Academy News

April 19, 2022
New 10th MDG landing zone speeds up transfer of emergency patients

Emergency patient transport accelerated at the U.S. Air Force Academy with the unveiling of a landing zone for Flight for Life helicopters just outside the 10th Medical Group on Pinon Drive. April 14.
April 19, 2022
U.S. Air Force Academy celebrates research achievements at annual awards ceremony

A new award was unveiled at the annual Dean’s Research Awards Ceremony, and the Air Force’s top research officer encouraged cadets to never give up their fight for innovation April 8.
April 18, 2022
U.S. Air Force Academy's computer and cyber sciences department recognized as 'National Center of Academic Excellence'

The National Security Agency named the U.S. Air Force Academy’s computer and cyber sciences department a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense earlier this year, placing the school in the ranks of six other colleges in Colorado advancing cyber security.
April 11, 2022
Elon Musk urges cadet researchers to keep innovating, make rocket launches ‘boring’

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk motivated cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy to keep the research industry on its toes by fighting complacency and working overtime to break boundaries. “We want to take the fiction out of science fiction,” Musk told throngs of cadets during his April 7 stopover at the school.
April 6, 2022
DOD’s chief experience officer sees Academy benchmarks in improving IT for Airmen, Guardians

A top technology official at the Air Force Academy said the school is an “incubator of IT capabilities” that could benefit the entire Air Force and Space Force in using and managing its IT infrastructure.
March 30, 2022
U.S. Air Force Academy pays tribute to beloved 10th Superintendent, Lt. Gen. Scott

Lt. Gen. Winfield W. “Skip” Scott Jr., the 10th superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, was laid to rest with military honors at the Academy Cemetery March 29 after a funeral mass at St. Peter Catholic Church in Monument and a committal service at the school’s memorial pavilion.
March 21, 2022
Academy cadets team up with Air Force's Office of Scientific Research to improve hypersonic systems

Researchers at the Air Force Academy and the service’s Office of Scientific Research say an experimental rocket launch will help the Air Force design air and space craft better able to withstand heat and turbulence at hypersonic speeds.
March 16, 2022
Cadets close out Recognition challenges at AF Academy

Freshmen at the Air Force Academy brought Recognition to a close March 12 with “Run to the Rock,” a trek to Cathedral Rock.
March 11, 2022
AF Academy’s top former enlisted role model for cadets retires

Bob Vasquez, a retired chief master sergeant popular with cadets at the Air Force Academy, retired from his position as the Cadet wing’s curriculum branch manager, Feb. 28.
Feb. 24, 2022
AF Academy’s 2022 National Character and Leadership Symposium focuses on human dignity, respect

The superintendent of the Air Force Academy gives the opening remarks at the 2022 National Character and Leadership Symposium