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I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l l e n c e
Air Education & Training Command
Where Training Is Big Business
Brigadier General Greg Touhill Commander, 81st Training WingKeesler Air Force Base, MS
About AETC
Gen Stephen R. LorenzAETC Commander
-13 Bases
- More Than 60,000 active duty
- Annual Budget of $7.3 billion
- Contractors (as of 6/08): 11,723
Develop America’s Airman today…for tomorrow.
Second Air Force – The AF’s School House
Maj Gen Alfred Flowers2AF Commander
Goodfellow AFB, TX Lackland AFB, TX
Keesler AFB, MS Sheppard AFB, TX Vandenberg AFB, CA
- 5,000 Courses
- 250,000 Students
- $2.2B Annual Budget
81st Training Wing – Keesler AFB
- Contractor payroll: $24M +
- We are in the training business
- Over 26,500 students per year
Know Your Students, Know Your Market
Millenial (Generation Y) Born from 1980 to 2001
Baby Boomer (Group I) Born from 1946 to 1954
Baby Boomer (Group II) Born from 1955 to 1964
Generation X Born from 1965 to 1979
• Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free-spirited, social cause-oriented
• Key characteristics: less optimistic, distrust of government, general cynicism• Digital Immigrants
• Key characteristics: independent, informality, entrepreneurial• Digital Immigrants
• Digital Natives
• Key characteristics: patriotism, acceptance of change, technically-savvy
The New Learning Organization
- Knowledge Management
- Continuous Learning
- Precision Learning
Flexibility is the Key to Airpower
- A Generation of Digital Natives
- Mobile Technologies, Podcasts and Video
- Adapt To The Way They Learn
Knowledge-Enabled Airmen are the key to flexibility
Welcome To Air Force 2.0
Communicating In A Language They Understand
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Technical Training Classes at Keesler Online
- Open Courseware at Keesler Online
- 2,300 Documents in 124 Courses
- Learning Forums, Feedback, Mailing Lists and Additional Courses Available 24/7
- 16 gigabytes of material and growing
Net-Centric Learning Leads To Cost Savings
- $1,500 to $2,000 per student to physically bring a student to Keesler for a one-week course
- Teaching a class of 12 to 16 students online saves $20,000 to $30,000 savings just by not making people travel
- Keesler saved an estimated $380,000 by employing new technologies.
Simulators – Training That Keeps on Giving
- Lower cost of operations
- Allows for all contingencies
- Make training for dangerous business safer, faster and cheaper
Doing Business at Keesler
C. Visit the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) Site www.fbo.gov
A. Register with Central Contractor Registration(CCR) www.ccr.gov
B. Visit the Small Business Association (SBA) Site www.sba.gov
The Future of Learning…
The Search Is On For:
Continuous innovative in training…
Enterprise-wide learning systems…
Cost-effective and learning-intensive techniques…
At Keesler, Training Is Our Business…
…And We Want Your Business
I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l l e n c e
Air Education & Training Command
Where Training Is Big Business
Brigadier General Greg Touhill Commander, 81st Training WingKeesler Air Force Base, MS