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    HomeAbout UsEmpowered Airmen     Accelerate Change: Empowered Airmen
 We live in a world that is driven by rapidly changing technology and an environment that includes aggressive and capable global competitors. Airmen are key to cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, recognizing and understanding our competition, and thinking of creative ways we can reshape the design of our Air Force. The Air Force must accelerate, must change, and must prepare for the future!

This page is dedicated towards highlighting the accomplishments of our talented Airmen at all levels and to show the impact they can make when they are informed and empowered to problem solve and make smart recommendations and decisions.


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    VENOM arrivesF-16s arrive to be modified for autonomous testing
        VENOM-AFT is designed and funded to accelerate testing of autonomy software on crewed and uncrewed aircraft. It complements the autonomy data and AI experimentation proving ground at Eglin AFB and informs the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program and other autonomy developers.
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    Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, delivers the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024.AFWERX director discusses role of tech startups, quick innovation in Great Power Competition
        The colonel met with technologists, startups and venture capitalists at South by Southwest to discuss national and global security challenges and the role AFWERX plays in acquiring the cutting-edge technologies needed to meet them.
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    U.S. Air Force Capt. Dee Hawes provides direction for the shipment of Tactical Operations Center-Light, or TOC-L, kitsDAF delivers lethality at the speed of data during Project Convergence Capstone 4
        Service members and civilians from the U.S., United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France and Japan participated in Project Convergence Capstone Four at Camp Pendleton.
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    Jamal Mahboob, a Google Cloud Platform Customer Engineer at Google Public Sector, engages with an Airman during the Google Defense Forum in Arlington, Va., Jan. 25, 2024. Through the Department of the Air Force’s Public-Private Talent Exchange, Mahboob has been participating in a professional development program with the DAF Chief Technology Officer, serving as a subject matter expert and technical advisor. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Kaitlin Holmes).DAF welcomes industry partners to HQ development program
        The PPTE is a competitive, acquisition-focused professional development program designed to grow partnership opportunities and increase communication between government and industry.
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    AFWERX Spark Tank 2024 graphic.DAF announces Spark Tank 2024 finalists
        The Spark Tank team presented the top 15 ideas identified through pairwise voting and subject matter expert evaluations from this year’s pool of submissions. DAF senior leaders convened to review and discuss the merits of each idea, reaching consensus to identify Spark Tank 2024’s six finalists.
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        ‘It’s important that we’re making all our Airmen feel included and the way that made her [Gabrielle DeQuire] feel was excluded and perpetuated stereotypes that we really need to change’ When Lt. Col. Sarah Zimmerman took the concerns of one Airman and helped her transform training and education for the entire service, she embodied the shift in Air Force culture that will lead to developing courageous problem-solvers who demonstrate value in diversity of thought, ingenuity, and initiative.** More
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