Air Education & Training Command: Big Business Training

1. Air Education & Training Command Where Training Is Big Business Brigadier General Greg Touhill Commander, 81st Training Wing Keesler Air Force Base, MS 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

2. About AETC Develop America’s Airman today…for tomorrow. -13 Bases - More Than 60,000 active duty Gen Stephen R. Lorenz AETC Commander - Annual Budget of $7.3 billion - Contractors (as of 6/08): 11,723

3. Second Air Force – The AF’s School House Lackland AFB, TX Goodfellow AFB, TX Maj Gen Alfred Flowers 2AF Commander - 5,000 Courses - 250,000 Students - $2.2B Annual Budget Vandenberg AFB, CA Sheppard AFB, TX Keesler AFB, MS

4. 81st Training Wing – Keesler AFB • We are in the training business • Over 26,500 students per year • Contractor payroll: $24M +

5. Know Your Students, Know Your Market Baby Boomer (Group I) Born from 1946 to 1954 • Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free-spirited, social cause-oriented Baby Boomer (Group II) Born from 1955 to 1964 • Key characteristics: less optimistic, distrust of government, general cynicism • Digital Immigrants Generation X Born from 1965 to 1979 • Key characteristics: independent, informality, entrepreneurial • Digital Immigrants Millenial (Generation Y) Born from 1980 to 2001 • Key characteristics: patriotism, acceptance of change, technically-savvy • Digital Natives

6. The New Learning Organization Flexibility is the Key to Airpower - Knowledge Management - Continuous Learning - Precision Learning

7. Welcome To Air Force 2.0 Knowledge-Enabled Airmen are the key to flexibility - A Generation of Digital Natives - Mobile Technologies, Podcasts and Video - Adapt To The Way They Learn

8. Communicating In A Language They Understand

9. Technical Training Classes at Keesler Online - Open Courseware at Keesler Online - 2,300 Documents in 124 Courses - 16 gigabytes of material and growing • Learning Forums, Feedback, Mailing Lists • and Additional Courses Available 24/7

10. 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.

11. Simulators – Training That Keeps on Giving - Lower cost of operations - Allows for all contingencies • Make training for dangerous business • safer, faster and cheaper

12. Doing Business at Keesler • Register with Central Contractor Registration • (CCR) www.ccr.gov B. Visit the Small Business Association (SBA) Site www.sba.gov C. Visit the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) Site www.fbo.gov

13. 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

14. Air Education & Training Command Where Training Is Big Business Brigadier General Greg Touhill Commander, 81st Training Wing Keesler Air Force Base, MS 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