Air Force Academy Cutting 140 Positions; Majors Affected?
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) | By Mary Shinn
Published July 08, 2025 at 9:27am ET
As the Air Force works to cut 5,000 positions before October, the Air Force Academy expects to eliminate 140 jobs.
Acting Dean Col. Steven Hasstedt outlined the cuts and the $10 million budget shortfall for civilian employee pay in a Tuesday email that was shared with The Gazette and later on social media. The email stated that most of the positions have already been vacated through voluntary resignations earlier in the year and only 36 positions are filled.
The 36 people in "unfunded positions" have the opportunity to move into other positions at the academy. The other 104 jobs were left open as employees left through the Trump administration's deferred resignation or early retirement programs. Those jobs will be phased out. Additional civilian jobs will be cut in the next fiscal year, but the email did not say how many. The Defense Department's fiscal year runs from October through September.
Among the positions slated for elimination, 52 are faculty and staff and of those 19 are filled. An internal communication in April said the school employs 491 faculty members, with 308 uniformed members and 183 civilians.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/08/air-force-academy-cutting-140-positions-majors-affected.html
