page_title: Andrew Armacost
section_title: Air Force Career
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Armacost / Air Force Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Brigadier General Andrew Armacost (right), Cadet James Brahm (left), Cadet James Lynch (center), Cadet Sears Schulz (back), and Cadet Lauren Humphreys (seated) after the U.S. Air Force Academy Cyber Competition Team defeated the U.S. Military Academy's Competition Cyber Team in a attack/defense-style Capture the Flag exercise on November 2, 2018 at the U.S. Military Academy.
context_page_description: Andrew "Uncle Andy" Armacost is the 13th and current president of the University of North Dakota, and a retired Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. He previously served as the Dean of the Faculty of the United States Air Force Academy
context_section_description: Armacost commissioned as an Air Force officer in 1989, and was assigned to the Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. After completing his master's degree, he served as an instructor in the Department of Management at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs from July 1995 to August 1997.  After a three-year break to earn his PhD, he returned as a Professor in the Department of Management from July 2000 to July 2007.  Armacost briefly served as the Chief Analyst of Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base before being appointed Permanent Professor and Department Head of the Department of Management. in June 2008. In June of 2013, Armacost was appointed Dean of the Faculty at the Academy.
  As Dean of the Faculty, Brigadier General Armacost led approximately 700 faculty in the design and construction of more than 500 undergraduate courses for 4,000 cadets across 32 academic disciplines.
  In 2018, Brigadier General Armacost announced that he would retire effective August 1, 2019, having served a total of 19 years of his 30 year USAF career at the Air Force Academy.
caption: Brigadier General Armacost with members of the Air Force Academy Cyber Competition Team
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