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AETC announces awards
The following individuals and units are 2019-
2020 Air Education and Training Command
winners:
Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance
Unit: 56th Operations Support Squadron
Airman: Senior Airman Cortney Haralson
Deployed enlisted: Senior Airman Brittney
Goff
Field grade officer: Maj. Kevin Hawkins
Civilian instructor: Edward Rutkowski
General John P. Jumper Award
Civilian: John Ciarrochi, 607th Air Control
Squadron
Resource Management
Sergeant Dee Campbell Award
Large unit: 56th Fighter Wing
nCo: Staff Sgt. Kristen Morales, 56th OSS
Civilian: Larry Miller, 56th OSS
Contracting
innovation (Team): 56th Contracting Squadron Lab, the concept utilizes
Contracting company grade officer: 1st Lt.
Bailey Grimes
Security Forces
nCo flight level: Tech. Sgt. Dominick Peterson
Courtesy of 56th Fighter Wing any angle.
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‘Next-Gen Debrief’ entry
According to Hawkins, aircrews currently
AETC by Airman 1st Class perform debriefs using whiteboards and maps,
BRooke MoeDeR
which are conventionally 2D. While pilots can use
announces 56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs computers to view portions of the flight, such as
Luke Airmen working with an Arizona State the position of the aircraft on the map, software
University student have developed a 3D aug- limitations make it challenging to visually recre- Royal
2021 Spark mented reality system that will revolutionize ate the full perspective of each aircraft involved
the way pilots conduct mission debriefs and will in the mission, he said. Netherlands
He said forcing 3D data into a 2D environment
represent the Air Education and Training Com-
Tank winners mand at Spark Tank 2021. is not natural, and during that translation of data
Maj. Kevin Hawkins, 56th Operations Support “there’s opportunity to make mistakes or it’s just air force
The following individu- Squadron wing intelligence chief, 1st Lt. Adam harder to learn and complete,” said Hawkins.
als received the 2021 Spark Treece, 56th OSS intelligence readiness chief, Hawkins and Turner envisioned a concept that conducts
Tank award for submis- Lt. Col. Alexander Turner, 56th OSS director of would take full advantage of data captured by
sions of the Next Gen De- operations, and Dylan Kerr, ASU digital culture the aircraft’s sensors, and Kerr programmed the
brief: Master of Arts student, teamed to adapt Microsoft software to enable aircrews wearing the smart- F-35
56th Fighter Wing HoloLens2 smartglasses into a tool aircrews can glasses to see the mission in 3D.
“Augmented reality enables individuals who
use to conduct detailed mission debriefs from an
Team members interactive, three-dimensional perspective. wear the smartglasses to interact with others mission
Maj. Kevin Hawkins The debrief process “is literally fundamental to and their surroundings,” said Hawkins. “We
and 1st Lt. Daniel Treece, how we learn every time we go out to train and think it’s going to be really effective because we A Royal Netherlands air force
are able to see if the student pilots understand
fly,” said Hawkins.
56th Operations Support The 56th Fighter Wing’s mission is to train the the information or not.” F-35A Lightning II assigned
Squadron world’s greatest fighter pilots and combat ready An additional advantage about using smart- to the 308th Fighter Squadron
Developed in partner- Airmen. Instructors train students to fly the glasses is that it moves debriefs into the virtual prepares for takeoff Sept. 15.
ship with Arizona State F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-35A Lightning domain. As a result, pilots who are geographi- The RNLAF arrived at Luke
AFB in February 2019 and
University’s Luminosity II aircraft in preparation for combat operations. cally separated can discuss the mission together, shares Luke’s mission of
Treece said.
While flying, aircraft sensors capture flight
characteristics including critical data such as “Right now, if I want to debrief with someone training the world’s greatest
augmented reality head- position, airspeed, altitude and actions in a 3D who flew a mission from a different base we’d fighter pilots. Luke currently
sets to project a three di- environment, explained Hawkins. have to do that over the telephone,” said Treece. trains with six foreign nations
mensional scene into the After each flight, instructors review the flight “But imagine if you put these headsets on and and has graduated more than
debrief room, allowing pi-
lots to view scenarios from details with students to evaluate their perfor- could debrief virtually; and, both could see the Airman 1st Class Brooke Moeder 61,000 fighter pilots since
1941.
same thing at the same time. That would make
mance, while seeking ways to help them develop
in a post-flight meeting called a “debrief.” it a much more efficient process.”
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