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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!

 

 
GATR Portable Antenna System
Air Force Research Laboratory
Video by Oswaldo Delacruz
Jan. 25, 2016 | 4:51
Just days after Hurricane Katrina slammed the South, an odd-looking inflatable antenna hastily set up at a shelter near Biloxi began providing the only high-bandwidth internet connection available to storm-battered residents.

The inflatable satellite antenna was a prototype under development by GATR Technologies through an Air Force SBIR. The original intention behind the GATR (“Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive”) antenna was to provide a communications lifeline to special operations forces—but Katrina offered a great proving ground, a little bit ahead of schedule. Named a Popular Science Invention of the Year and one of Inc. Magazine’s “Hottest Small-Business Products,” GATR systems are now in use by all of the U.S. military services, including U.S. Special Operations Forces, and is also being used by government and civilian disaster relief organizations.

The GATR technology is just one example of the value realized through 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. GATR received funding during this period to develop its revolutionary satellite antenna. This is GATR’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.