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Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

 

 

GET INVOLVED

Find a mentor and become a mentor!  It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector.  In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

  • Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
  • Track the status of their mentoring requests
  • Updated Resources page
  • Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
  • Additional search filters:
  • ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
  • Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
  • Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
  • CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

 

 
Tactical Advantage: TEC Torch
Air Force Research Laboratory
Video by Oswaldo Delacruz
March 24, 2016 | 4:12
Research into micro weapons for drones morphed into the world’s first and only self-contained, hand-held tactical breaching tool. Developed at the request of special operations forces by Energetic Materials & Products, Inc., the TEC Torch shoots out a metal vapor with enough force, speed, and heat to cut through an inch and a half of steel in two seconds.

The first priority was getting the tool to military users. Now the company is working to get a TEC Torch into the hands of anyone who might need it to save a life or remove someone from danger. TEC Torch can also be used in explosive ordnance disposal, and is finding application in underwater salvage.

The TEC Torch is just one of many innovations enabled by the U.S. Air Force’s SBIR and STTR (Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer) programs. Respectively, the programs fund R&D by small businesses, and cooperative R&D projects between small businesses and nonprofit U.S. research institutions, including universities.

The Air Force SBIR / STTR program focuses on proposals with the potential to develop into products or services for military or commercial consumers. From 2000-2013, the Air Force invested nearly $4 billion in these R&D projects. EMPI received funding during this period to develop its breakthrough breaching tool. This is EMPI’s story. More

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INSTALLATION MENTORING CHALLENGE

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In observance of National Mentoring Month, we have a goal of increasing Airman and Guardian mentoring profiles and pairs by 20%. The winning installation will have the opportunity to participate in a virtual mentoring session.