For the first time, members of the Philippine Air Force have been attending Airman Leadership School at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. It’s part of a training process to enable the PAF to create its own formal leadership program. Four instructor/students and the command sergeant majors of the PAF are currently attending an ALS class, with five additional students planned for the future. The new instructors will then write up a curriculum and establish a Philippine airman leadership school in Fiscal 2007. “ALS is helping us develop more and starting innovations that can be adjusted to our system,” said PAF Command Sgt. Maj. Cesar Soloria.
The Air Force is moving forward with a new, algorithm-driven system to help U.S. Northern Command better detect airborne threats. NORTHCOM and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which are tasked with protecting the homeland from attack, depend on a slew of radars and other data systems to monitor U.S.…