Jake served for 27 years as an Air Force Officer, fighter pilot from 1983-2011 and retired at the rank of Colonel. His career flying assignments included five Operational F-15 Fighter Wings, F-15C Fighter Training Unit, an FMS F-15 flying assignment. Additionally, Jake is also a graduate of the US Air Force Fighter Weapons School. Jake’s non-flying tours served as a Requirements officer for combat stealth platforms, advanced sensors, and air-air weapons. At the strategic level he served on the AF Development of Aerospace Leader project and the Quadrennial Défense Review. Jake retired as the Director of Air Force Inspections. Jake is serving as a principal member on the USAF Air Combat Command Team to support and co-author the Future Fighter Training Concept of Operations, support the requirements development for each of the lines of efforts, the roadmap for planning, programming, and implementation for this Surrogate Training Family of Systems for the Combat Air Forces. Jake is supporting international engagement and collaboration with US Allied Countries.
• Supporting the next generation of pilots with training designed around the integration of CCAs and autonomy
• US Air Force Leadership priorities to determine the pace of advancing future fighter training and readiness
• How developments in 6th generation fighter programmes are influencing training programmes
• What are the key missions that pilots must ace in a peer conflict and given lessons from Ukraine? How must air forces prioritise live and synthetic training for lethal advantage?
• What are the future trends in training for 6th generation aircraft, alongside unmanned systems?
• Changing training needs on the fly: How to build-in flexibility and minimize disruption in the transition from a traditional training cycle? How would existing trainingregimes need to evolve and how quickly can this transition take place when needed?
• What might the teaching of “softer” but necessary skills such physical and mental resilience need to look like and how to measure and assess these skills?
• How are air forces increasing retention of new pilots, and what strategies are they using to recruit the next generation of fighter pilots?
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