Air Force institute, Naval postgrad school form alliance. (Washington Pulse).The secretaries of the Navy and the Air Force signed an agreement to form an alliance between the Air Force Institute of Technology The Naval Postgraduate School serves a similar purpose for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. The U.S. Army does not have a comparable school; Army officers study at the Naval Postgraduate School or AFIT. (AFIT AFIT Air Force Institute of Technology AFIT Armed Forces Institute of Transfusion (Rawalpindi, Pakistan) AFIT Arizona Forum for the Improvement of Taxation ), located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 8,023 acres (3,247 hectares), W Ohio, NE of Dayton; est. 1917. One of the largest airport installations in the world, it is the air force's main research and development base, and the headquarters of the , Ohio, and the Naval Postgraduate School The Naval Postgraduate School is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy. Located in Monterey, California, it grants primarily master's degrees plus some doctoral degrees to its students, who are mostly active duty officers from U.S. and foreign military services. (NPS NPS National Park Service NPS Naval Postgraduate School NPS Net Promoter Score (customer management) NPS Non-Point Source pollution NPS Native Plant Society NPS Norfolk Public Schools (Virginia) ), in Monterey, Calif. The partnership is designed to provide servicemen and women with a "relevant, high-quality education that is more aligned with defense needs while eliminating duplicate degree programs and consolidating educational resources," according to a Defense Department news release. NPS will be the lead institution for meteorology and acquisition management, while AFIT will offer an aeronautical engineering curriculum for Air Force and Navy officers. "By working together, we hope to minimize redundancy at each institution while still providing a world-class education in which officers from all services can engage in education and research programs in a joint environment," said Air Force Secretary James Roche. "This is a tremendous effort to maximize the strengths of both AFIT and NPS and form solid alliances for a truly joint environment," said Navy Secretary Gordon England. |
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