Welcome to the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. The LeMay Center is the principle organization for developing and assessing Air Force doctrine and advocating airpower doctrine in Joint & multinational arenas. The LeMay center is the Air Force lead for tactical, operational and strategic lessons learned. Ensuring lessons learned and doctrinal concepts are integrated into the Air Force Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, wargames, and educations. The LeMay center is also charged with educating warfighters through resident and distance learning courses. The center executes operational and strategic wargames for the Air Force, Air University and partner nations.
The LeMay Center operates as the Air University Intelligence Office, offering educational electives and intelligence support for core Joint and Air Force Professional Military Education courses. The Intelligence function serves as the Special Security Office (SSO) as well as the Senior Intelligence Officer for AU.
The LeMay Center is the lead for Strategy and Concepts across Air University, integrating new ideas, collaborations, research aligning with Air Force, DOD and civilian think tank organizations to ensure diverse strategic integration across AU.
The center also operates the Joint Integration Directorate integrating plans, curriculum, wargaming, doctrine development and subject matter expertise across all services.
Serves as the Air Force voting member on the Air, Land, Sea Application Center on the Joint Actions Steering Committee to help develop joint solutions for instant combat impact, and provide Air Force expertise to ensure relevancy for the immediate needs of the warfighter.