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July 18, 2025
Breaking the Mold: How Innovation Powers AFTC’s Strategic Momentum

In today’s rapid evolving mission, innovation isn’t just a buzzword and playing it safe can sometimes mean falling behind. That’s why Chief Master Sgt. Jeffrey Martin, Air Force Test Center command chief master sergeant, is pushing for something different: a culture where challenging assumptions is
July 7, 2025
Tucano Tales: A-29C operations formally begin at the USAF Test Pilot School

The Air Force Test Pilot School is working judiciously to integrate the recently acquired A-29C Super Tucano aircraft into the student flight curriculum.
July 3, 2025
Valkyrie test missions advance AF human-machine teaming

Designed to operate alongside crewed aircraft, providing affordable capabilities that can operate semi-autonomously in high-risk environments and marked another step towards their integration into air combat.
July 1, 2025
Forging the new test Leader: How the Air Force Test Pilot School is molding the 21st century Doolittle

In an era defined by rapid technological advancement and near-peer competition, the U.S. Air and Space Forces face an increasingly complex battlespace. Victory is no longer determined by singular platforms, but by a web of interconnected, multi-domain systems that must be developed, tested, and
July 1, 2025
Red Hawk endures ice, winds, sun in new phase of climate tests

Temperatures ranging from 110 degrees to minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit, cockpit icing as well as 190 mile-per-hour manufactured wind streams. All those weather events were created within the lab’s 55,000 square foot test chamber.
June 24, 2025
New Air Force Test Pilot School satellite operations center reflects continued alignment to National Defense Strategy

The Air Force Test Pilot School formally inaugurated its Satellite Operations Center on, June 11, 2025.
June 16, 2025
Modernization Mission Continues as TPS Welcomes New Commandant

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School welcomed their newest commandant during the change of command ceremony, June 13, 2025, when Col. James Valpiani relinquished command to Col. Maryann Karlen, former Air Force Test Center deputy commander. Maj. Gen. Scott Cain, AFTC commander, officiated the event.
June 16, 2025
Beale C2 test detachment changes command

Lt. Col. William Singer assumed command of the 505th Test and Training Group, Detachment 1, during a change of command ceremony held June 6 at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.
June 16, 2025
Air Force DASH sprint pioneers human-machine teaming for faster battle management decisions

The Department of the Air Force took a bold step toward future command and control capabilities with the successful completion of its first Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, or DASH, experiment, recently held at the Howard Hughes Operations Center, or H2O, in Las Vegas, Nev.
June 13, 2025
U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School graduates second fully integrated air and space class

The Air Force Test Pilot School celebrated the graduation of Class 24B on June 7, marking a significant milestone in the development of multi-domain test leaders.

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