The Future Space Professional Workforce
The Air Force Space Command space professional development initiative is moving forward to ensure the existence of a highly trained cadre of space professionals ready to meet with future challenges. The space and missile operators and acquirers of tomorrow will be required to design and operate the most complicated and technologically advanced systems ever created with an unprecedented standard of expertise and reliability. As the use of space becomes more prolific throughout the Department of Defense and national security agencies, the demand on the skills of space professionals in these organizations is ever-increasing.
At the beginning of the Air Force space professional development process is a course held at the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) campus at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Space 100 is the first step in an evolving multi-phased training program, preparing officers and enlisted for their careers as highly trained space and missile acquirers and operators. This process of acculturation into the space profession is the first step in becoming an accredited space professional, prepared for any challenge the future might bring.
As the visionary behind this new impetus of space professional development, General Lance W. Lord, Commander of Air Force Space Command has asked California Space Authority (CSA) to assist by having Matt Everingham CSA Research Analyst audit Space 100 as a new space professional. The resulting input will assist in the continuing development of the Air Force's Space 100 course. Through this creative collaboration, Space Command is contributing to the inter-organizational effort to ensure a positive workforce outlook for all sectors of space enterprise; commercial, civil and national security.
CSA is pleased to have been asked to participate in this opportunity to further the sense of community among all space professionals, contributing again to the Voice, Visibility, and competitive Edge of its members.
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