2nd Air Force creates Technical Training Centers of Excellence

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  • By Senior Airman Katie McKee
  • 82nd TRW Public Affairs

The 82nd Training Wing held a centers of excellence town hall here Oct. 8 with Dr. Brian Davis, 2nd Air Force chief training officer, to discuss the upcoming transition from Air Education and Training Command to Airman Development Command, and how it will affect technical training.

The realignment will allow training bases to focus on producing air-minded warriors as the Air Force operates in an era of Great Power Competition. The new approach is to teach competency-based skills starting at basic military training and then into technical training.

Areas of change Davis briefed included the organizational chain of command, center of excellence structures and accelerating curriculum development.

“Underneath Second Air Force, we’ll have the five centers of excellence that focus on different Air Force Specialty Codes,” Davis said. Most of the 82nd’s mission will align to the logistics center of excellence.  “We know that curriculum will incorporate Airmen foundational competencies, and we will reduce the time from the identification of a training requirement through course modification and execution.”

Col. Paul Filcek, commander of the 82nd TW, emphasized the importance of preparing our Airmen as the Air Force’s largest technical training wing.

 

“We have to be ready to execute our mission and continue producing air-minded warriors,” Filcek said. “We produce Airmen at such magnitude here, graduating close to 65,000 Airmen a year with 16,000 coming from Sheppard alone. Centers of excellence will streamline curriculum development and make training more agile, so we can respond quickly to the needs of warfighting commands and deliver the mission-ready Airmen they need.”

All five centers of excellence are projected to be established with initial operating capability by Dec. 1.