After a year’s effort by a training development team, officials at Keesler AFB, Miss., earlier this month began the first block of a new cyber transport course that combines training in three formerly separate specialty fields, according to a Nov. 18 release. “We took elements from computer maintenance, network integrations, and voice network systems courses to create the new cyber transport course,” said Ann Owens, cyber transport flight chief with Keesler’s 388th Training Squadron. Just this summer, the Air Force announced plans to put cyber warfare training at the Mississippi Gulf Coast base, which already had been working on combining curriculums for airmen who provide long-haul communications support. The first of Keesler’s new cyber course comprises only 11 students, but officials expect the student load for Fiscal 2010 to be about 680 students. (Includes Keesler report by Angela Cutrer)
Australia’s military will help the Pentagon pursue so-called “air-breathing” hypersonic weapons and more under the U.S.-run Allied Prototyping Initiative, the U.S. Defense Department said Nov. 30. The Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) initiative “will be essential to the future of hypersonic research and development, ensuring the U.S. and…