The Air Force is realigning its space education program, but is not expected to physically move the training center.
The National Security Space Institute, or NSSI, moved organizationally to be under the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on April 1. However, the training itself will remain at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.
It’s part of a plan to “bring all space, cyber, and nuclear professional continuing education under one organization,” the Air Force said in a press release.
The Air Force Institute of Technology is part of Air University and Air Education and Training Command. NSSI was previously under a different component of Air U, the Ira C. Eaker Center for Professional Development at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
However, leadership hopes the realignment will streamline education as career fields such as space and cyber operations become increasingly critical to the service.
NSSI was created in 2004 to provide space training and education to service members following a report that the Air Force “lacked a development system designed to grow senior leaders, elevating the need for more space-specific education and training,” the press release said.
Current and future classes should be unaffected by the move, the Air Force said, adding that the school will continue to turn out more than 800 space professionals each year.
