Welcome to the Air Force Institute of Technology

The Air Force Institute of Technology faculty participated in the Digital Dayton Roundtable at University of Dayton Research Institute's Curran Place in early 2024. The event focus was “Creating the Digital Materiel Management Workforce We Need: A Digital Transformation Office, Air Force Materiel Command and Industry Association Consortium Workshop.”  As part of the AFIT keynote, Maj. Jeffery King (pictured), instructor of systems engineering at AFIT’s School of Systems and Logistics, discussed continuing education offerings focused on enabling integrated product teams to transition from a document-based environment to a model-based environment.  (U.S. Air Force photo by Katie Scott)

The Air Force Institute of Technology’s students, faculty and staff celebrated many significant milestones throughout 2024.  After more than a century of educational excellence, AFIT’s current vision of leading defense-focused education, research and consultation to accelerate military superiority across all domains continues to be accomplished through its five schools:  the Civil Engineer School, the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, the School of Strategic Force Studies, and the School of Systems and Logistics and Civilian Institution Programs Office.

The School of Systems & Logistics (LS)

In 2024, 26,100 total students completed in-person and online self-paced war-fighter centric courses in initial skills training, competency-based education, research, consulting and program management through AFIT’s School of Systems and Logistics.  These courses were composed of Air Force, civilian, 94 contractors and eight international students.

In response to the growing demand for digital proficiency, AFIT’s School of LS stood up the Digital Materiel Management Academy in 2024 through a partnership with AFIT’s Department of Systems Engineering and Management, AFIT ENV.  In October 2024, the School of LS presented their ongoing DMMA at the NDIA 27th Annual Mission and Systems Engineering Conference in Norfolk, VA.
 
The Academy is supported by AFIT’s Digital Innovation and Integration Center of Excellence, or DIICE, and employs a blend of education and training delivered through joint-functional sessions and short educational bursts. Students are encouraged to apply their learning to government reference models specific to their programs, fostering practical skill development using daily workload objectives. This course is offered for free to military and government civilians.

The School of LS also revised and scheduled its Chief Engineer’s Course sequence in 2024.  The chief engineer course, SYS 482 prepares students to integrate a working knowledge of chief engineer roles, responsibilities, and concepts into their daily interactions with program management, logistics, financial management, and contracting personnel to influence the outcome of a balanced system design that supports programmatic reality within programmatic constraints of cost and schedule that impacts performance.

The Air Force Institute of Technology, or AFIT, located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the Department of the Air Force’s leader for advanced, multi-disciplinary academic education, as well as its institution for initial technical and professional continuing education.  AFIT is committed to providing defense-focused graduate education and related research, and operationally-relevant initial skills training and professional continuing education to sustain the technological supremacy of America's air, space, and cyber forces. 

For more information about AFIT degree programs, research collaborations or continuing education courses, please visit the AFIT webpage https://www.afit.edu/ or contact Ms. Jaclyn Knapp at Jaclyn.Knapp.2@us.af.mil 

AFIT’s School of Systems and Logistics, or LS provides initial skills and professional continuing education, or PCE courses in the areas of acquisition management, contracting, cybersecurity, data analytics, digital acquisition, financial management, logistics, process improvement, and systems engineering.  Faculty teach an average of 18,500 students a year through in-residence, distance learning and on-site instruction.  For more information, please visit the AFIT LS webpage https://www.afit.edu/LS/ or email AFIT.LS.EducationSupport@us.af.mil .