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Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008
From its small beginnings in 1919 as the Army Air Corps’ Air Application School, to today where AFIT is home to the nation’s 8th largest graduate school, two professional continuing education schools, and the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, the Air Force Institute of Technology has a long and rich heritage of arming the Air Force with the power of knowledge.
To celebrate our history and to look to the future, AFIT will host its first ever Heritage Symposium on 25-26 September 2008. During this two-day spectacular, we will learn first-hand from some of our most successful graduates how their AFIT education played a critical role in their careers and why AFIT is more relevant than ever to deliver future capabilities in newly emerging mission areas such as cyberspace. This will be a prime opportunity for you to dialog with senior leaders about AFIT as together we reflect on the past and help shape AFIT’s future.
Featured speakers at the symposium include General Skantze, USAF, Retired, former Commander of Air Force Systems Command and member of AFIT’s class of ’59; Lt Gen Bowlds, Commander, Electronic Systems Center, AFIT class 0f ’79; Lt Gen Shelton, Commander, 14th Air Force, AFIT class of ’80; Brig Gen Deveraux, recently selected for assignment to Headquarters Air Mobility Command as the Deputy Director for Air, Space, and Information Operations, AFIT class of ’88; Dr. Billy Mullins, Associate Director of Strategic Security, AFIT class of ’79; and Dr. Ray Johnson, Chief Technology Officer at Lockheed Martin Corp., AFIT class of ’87 and ’93.
During the symposium you will be able to tour the AFIT campus and see for yourself our unmatched world class research facilities. You will able to speak with representatives of our three schools and the various centers who will present poster presentations about AFIT’s professional continuing education programs, advanced academic degree programs, consulting services, and Department of Defense research efforts.
The AFIT Foundation will also host several events at which you can get re-acquainted with fellow alumni, including the symposium luncheon on Thursday and a golf scramble on Friday morning at the Wright-Patterson AFB Prairie Trace Golf Course. The event will culminate on Friday evening, 26 September, with the formal AFIT Foundation sponsored Distinguished Alumni Banquet where we will honor the Class of 2008 inductees – an exciting event everyone at AFIT will definitely want to attend.
Mark your calendar now, and make plans to attend the AFIT Heritage Symposium. For more details and information about the symposium, visit www.afit.edu/symposium.