{"id":129227,"date":"2022-06-16T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227//?p=129227"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:31:13","slug":"ucf-signs-educational-partnership-agreement-with-u-s-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227//ucf-signs-educational-partnership-agreement-with-u-s-space-force/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Signs Educational Partnership Agreement with U.S. Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF, the nation/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u2019s Space University, has now entered an agreement with the U.S. Space Force to help develop technology and an agile workforce ready for space./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/n

The two organizations recently signed an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) after several Space Force officials visited UCF in March./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/n

Three members /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u2014 also known as Guardians /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u2014 of the Space Force spent a day at UCF learning about some of our space-relevant research and hands-on courses and met with some 色花堂/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u2019s ROTC cadets. They were Lisa Costa, chief technology and innovation officer, Joel Mozer, director of the Science, Technology, and Research Directorate, and Nackieb Kamin manager of  the Science, Technology, and Research Directorate/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u201cWe have a lot of strengths in areas that are of interest to Space Force such as modeling and simulation, engineering and interdisciplinary research,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u201d says Grace Bochenek /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u201998PhD, director 色花堂/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u2019s School for Modeling, Simulation and Training who led efforts to broker the agreement. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u201cThe EPA allows us a lot of flexibility so we can work together and help drive the kind of innovation that the Space Force is looking for while also developing an agile workforce that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u2019s got the right stuff and is ready to go./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/n

The agreement focuses on six areas science, technology and research priorities. They are:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129227/n