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Monday, March 10, 2025

Computers in the United States Air Force Workplace



Truth be told, the United States Air Force is heavily reliant upon computers. For example, everyone in the workforce has an employee email account, which they are expected to use for communication. Everything from putting -in leave (vacation days) to signing reports and training is all done through computers. Additionally, in the maintenance career field inside the Air Force, we use computers to follow manuals and engine part breakdowns, which we must use 24/7 when completing any maintenance action. I would not say you need a computer expert in the Air Force. However, you need to know how to update programs, work with a VPN (when you are deployed), and know your way around Microsoft Outlook and Adobe PDF pretty well. If we look at the past, emails inside the Air Force were not a big thing not too long ago, as they started going with the current email-for-life system in 2005.

    Maintenance orders were printed books rather than saved as PDFs on computers less than 10 years ago. If we look at the change in the Air Force over the course of the last 20 years, we can predict that technology will only be more prevalent within the Air Force. AI may be used on gov computers to make communication even more effective. They are currently using AR (augmented reality) for training within the Air Force, so it could not be that far off to see AI being used in some sort.

I look forward to the future of technology; it is unbelievable how advanced technology has been in the last 25 years.

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