Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) has officially announced the renewal of its listing on the General Services Administration (GSA) for another 5-year term.
According to certain reports, the stated development empowers government agencies to enjoy streamlined access of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’ offerings, while simultaneously highlighting AFA’s commitment to advancing aerospace power using research and strategic insights. Not just that, the GSA schedule listing also makes it possible for AFA to strengthen its partnership with government agencies through a rather seamless procurement process, pre-vetted pricing, and direct access to its programs.
Talk about Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies for a moment, it happens to be the only think tank in the nation’s capital focused on airpower and space power. More on the same would reveal how the stated organization is known as an independent, nonpartisan research organization established to provide innovative, insightful, fact-based research, analysis, and policy options to inform decision-makers, experts, and the public on national security issues across the air and space domains.
Mitchell Institute focus, at the moment, is on providing deep analysis of important issues, strategy, and technology through research reports and policy papers on a wide range of subjects. Furthermore, it conducts cutting edge workshops and wargames, as well as facilitates topical expert conversations with a variety of community activities and engagement opportunities, from symposia to round tables.
Not just that, the organization also collaborates with top air and space leaders through its internationally acclaimed webinar series and influential weekly podcast series that both cover a broad range of timely air and space issues.
“Being on the GSA schedule allows us to better serve government agencies and strengthen their ability to address national security challenges,” said Douglas Birkey, Executive Director for the Mitchell Institute. “As the nation’s premier non-partisan thinktank solely devoted to the importance of air and space power, we support a range of research methods and proven products and services that inform critical choices in the Department of Defense and on Capitol Hill.”
Talk about Mitchell Institute’s offerings on a slightly deeper level, we begin from its consulting services that are dispatched by full-time staff with experiential depth ranging from senior warfighting leadership which has been involved in every major DOD defense review since 1992. Next up, we have the prospect of research projects and reports. You see, both these components, at Mitchell Institute, are meticulously crafted to distill the essence of complex issues, educate a target audience, and present solutions.
We referred to how the institute also conducts workshops, table-top exercises, wargames, but what we haven’t mentioned yet is how the stated activities are actually taken care of top expertise from the three key communities of innovation: warfighters, technologists, and industry. Beyond that, students can also come expecting to learn about airpower, space power, threats to U.S. national security, and military force design.
As for Air & Space Forces Association, founded back in 1946, is an independent, non-profit 501(c)3 association dedicated to supporting the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force through investment. It is also known for particularly supporting Airmen, Guardians, and their Families. The scale of AFA’s operations can be understood once you consider it currently has more than 120,000 members and 200 chapters spread around the world.
