For 75 years, American Airmen have excelled as they execute the Air Force mission to fly, fight, and win — delivering airpower anytime, anywhere in defense of our nation.

Airmen are called to “Innovate, Accelerate and Thrive” as the U.S. Air Force and Department of the Air Force approach their 75th anniversaries on Sept. 18, 2022. Airmen will always be there to provide America with the airpower it needs to defend the nation, deter or defeat our adversaries, reassure our partners and allies, and help diplomacy proceed from a position of strength.

Commentary: Lessons from our past – Claire Chennault on Agile Combat Employment

As the Air Force leans into Agile Combat Employment, lessons can be learned from Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers and how they operated in China during WWII.

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AF 75th Birthday INNOVATE

Innovation, fueled by Airmen, is our heritage. Airmen continue to push technological and cultural boundaries which make America the leader in airpower and spacepower. Innovation is an integral part of how we train and employ our squadrons, develop our capabilities, and continue to move toward an even more effective Air Force.

AF 75th Birthday Accelerate

From their inception 75 years ago, the U.S. Air Force and Department of the Air Force have excelled at keeping pace with rapid changes in technology and in the demands placed on the Air Force’s five core missions: air superiority; global strike; rapid global mobility; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; and command and control.

AF 75th Birthday Thrive

We are the world’s greatest Air Force because of those who have gone before us – particularly those who weren’t afraid to break barriers. Empowered Airmen are the competitive edge we have over our adversaries and the reason we are the world’s greatest Air Force.

Air Force 75th Anniversary Commemorative Poster: Air Force Firsts

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: The Doolittle Raid - 1940s Era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. - 1950s Era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Flight of the Blackbird - 1960s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Apollo 15 - 1970s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: B-52 Stratofortress - 1980s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Stealth War - 1990s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Dominate the Skies – 2000s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: First Unmanned Flight - 2010s era

Air Force 75th Anniversary Poster: Force of the Future - 2020s Era

Air Force Posters Frontiers of Blue — Air Force Posters Archive

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Video by Kevin D Schmidt

QuEST (2022-02-09) Nelson Dellis - Memory Conversation Part 4

Air Force Research Laboratory

Feb. 9, 2022 | 01:22:25

In this edition of QuEST, Memory Champion Nelson Dellis continues his discussion on memory athletics, memory palaces, and person-action-object encoding methods.

Key Moments and Questions in the video include:
Introduce Nelson to the S3Q model
Invite to have Nelson join in a research opportunity to incorporate the PAO in the memory palace into the S3Q framework
Brainstorm follow-on experiments in memory techniques
Validate/falsify S3Q model
2014-16, Nelson organized a memory competition for research of memory athletes
Research to enhance memory
One idea for research is to develop a competition to gather data
Travel and prize money are great incentives to get participants
S3Q defined
Situated-relationships between a particular human or machine
Simulated-internal world model reasoning capability
Structurally Coherent-feedback loops
Qualia-the fundamental units of cognition
Emphasize consciousness being able to generate qualia
How do you define a qualia?
Working towards a direction on defining qualia
S3Q framework being used to bring it together
Memory athletes bring value to understanding how they generate qualia
Human-machine teaming with trust
Cognitive task could capture specific aspects
More accurate model creation
Potential idea to gather data on errors by Memory Athletes
Identify similarities/differences in individual PAO structure
Vividness of imagery
Aphantasia
Kabrisky model for the human visual system
PAO
Memory palace

Case Number AFRL-2024-2590