Air University Educational Digest - 2010 (pdf ... - The Air University

LEMAY CENTER
(Formal name: Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education)
The LeMay Center is develops and produces Air Force basic and operational doctrine, critical
leadership input for joint and multinational doctrine development activities, doctrine education
for the Air Force and doctrine application within wargames and simulations. The center is
chartered by the CSAF to be his doctrinal voice and is directly responsible to the CSAF on all
matters of basic and operational level doctrine
The LeMay Center conducts eight professional continuing education courses that develop the
judgment and skills required to employ air and space power effectively in combat. At the seniorleader
level, the Directorate conducts the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course, the Joint Force
Air Component Commander Course, the Combined Force Air Component Commander Course,
the Senior Joint Information Operations Applications Course, and the Air Force Senior
Executive Warfighter Perspective Seminar. At the intermediate level (E-5 to O-6), the center
conducts the Contingency Wartime Planning course, the Joint Air Operations Planning course,
and the Information Operations Fundamentals Application course. The LeMay Center maintains
a distance learning library of eight courses designed to increase Airmen‘s knowledge of doctrine
and the operational level of war accessible at https://wwwmil.maxwell.af.mil/au/lemay/
The LeMay Center maintains and conducts wargames in support of Title 10 and AU school
requirements. Center staff supports intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
education throughout Air University (AU).
MUIR S. FAIRCHILD RESEARCH INFORMATION CENTER
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Source of Data: LeMay Center/DS
The Air University Library was officially renamed in 2007 as the Muir S. Fairchild Research
Information Center (MSFRIC) to honor AU's first commander. It is the largest library in the
DoD and the largest federal library outside Washington DC. It contains over 2 million items;
including 504,638 books and bound periodicals; 1,707 current periodicals and 20 newspaper
subscriptions; 513,265 technical reports and documents; and 386,387 maps and charts. The
MSFRIC loans over 2,100 items from its collections each year to government, academic, and
public libraries across the country and around the world.
The MSFRIC provides a web-based catalog and internet access to hundreds of
specialized electronic resources and full-text articles and books. The MSFRIC staff
compiles over 200 regional and topical resource guides and coordinates with PME
faculties to provide web-based course support materials to AU students.
The MSFRIC edits and publishes the Air University Library Index to Military
Periodicals, a guide to the contents of 81 English language military periodicals. Now in
its 61st continuous year of publication, the Index is available electronically through the
MSFRIC webpage (www.au.af.mil/au/aul/aul.htm).