Cloud Enablement Curriculium

Team Trek10 comprises Trek10 Inc. along with the University of Notre Dame to provide the Cloud Enablement Curriculum (CEC) to satisfy Air Force and Digital University (Digital U) concerns surrounding the teaching, training, enabling, and validation of cloud computing skills across the Air Force. Team Trek10 has advanced SME background in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud as well as deep online learning and curriculum building expertise to strengthen the Air Force’s newly implemented Digital U. The primary goal of Digital U is to provide easily accessible and effective learning via courses that would translate to improved real-world actions, performance, and promotions for all Airmen using the platform. A cross-functional coalition of advocates are using Digital U including AETC, A1, AFWERX, CIO, SSG, and AQ. Critically, despite the fact that cloud computing is wide-spread and pervasive, very few colleges and universities offer cloud computing degrees and the ones that do rarely offer real-world experience. Learning a theoretical topic in school vs. mastering its application is analogous to the progression from medical school to medical residency. The first teaches concepts, the second turns that conceptual knowledge into practice....thus creating certified practitioners.  The Cloud Enablement Curriculum seeks to fill this critical gap.  Given that Digital U resides within the Air Force Computer Language Initiative Program it makes for a logical place in which to roll out CEC.  Solving the ‘digital readiness workforce’ problem at a systems level through the adaptation of CEC within Digital U provides the Air Force with a tremendous opportunity to increase the readiness level, capacity, and lethality of our forces, while decreasing the cost to the American taxpayer.