ANG highlights innovation to improve training
Technology and disruptive training models will enable the USAF and ANG to compensate for a shortfall in pilots
Maj Gen John Hronek, the US Air National Guard (ANG) representative to the commander of the USAF’s Air Education and Training Command (AETC) has used a speech to an AFCEA chapter to highlight how innovation and technology is able to speed up training times while increasing ‘warfighter effectiveness’.
Hronek discussed initiatives and programmes that AETC is implementing to transform pilot training, and he explained how technologies, including VR, AI and analytics, have important roles in how AETC instructors train pilots.
In part, this transformation has come about to address a shortfall in pilots for the USAF and its knock-on
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