Air mobility airmen are honing their battlefield skills in increasing numbers at the Air Mobility Warfare Center at Ft. Dix, N.J., where Air Mobility Command focuses its advanced education, training, and testing activities. Disciplines at the school are divided up into five courses—mobility weapons school, mobility operations school, expeditionary operations school, air mobility Battlelab, and the resources directorate. The center opened its doors in May 1994 and has expanded to host 59 courses and 5,000 in-resident students and more than 7,000 distance-learning students each year.
Bell Textron has won DARPA's contest for a no-runway, high-speed drone that will prove out technologies useful for special operations forces and possibly the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment concept. Bell's design converts a tiltrotor to a jet-powered aircraft able to fly at up to 450 knots.