Air Force Institute of Technology faculty member Maj. Dane Jansson was selected as the Air Education and Training Command winner of the Gen. John P. Jumper Award for Excellence in Warfighting Integration, Officer Category. He will next represent AETC at the Air Force-level competition.

The Gen. John P. Jumper Award for Excellence in Warfighting Integration recognizes individuals for sustained superior performance and outstanding contributions to the integration of Air Force Warfighting and/or operations support capabilities that shorten the kill chain and/or enhance the decision cycle.

Jansson joined the AFIT faculty in September 2022 as the Joint Advanced Cyberspace Operations course chief within AFIT’s School of Strategic Force Studies. He oversees curriculum development, scheduling and instruction to enable cyberspace professionals to articulate, integrate and apply cyberspace capabilities at the strategic level across the full spectrum of operations and joint multi-domain environments.

“Maj. Jansson hit the ground sprinting since his arrival and his efforts in shaping our next iteration of our advanced cyberspace operations course have been invaluable and will deliver tangible impacts and cyberspace experts across the joint arena well into the future,” said Col. Christopher Landwehr, dean, School of Strategic Forces. “It’s a privilege to work with leaders of his caliber who are persistent in their focus to develop people and generate ready forces to prevail in current and future conflicts.”

During the award period, Jansson led four classes coordinating 35 instructors and speakers executing 320 classroom hours, delivering 19,000 student contact hours and enabling student eligibility of 236 Joint Qualified Officer points for 233 Air Force and joint service graduates.

He facilitated three distance-learning offerings of the Cyberspace Operations Fundamentals course for 156 joint military professionals with more than 6,000 education contact hours resulting in a 96% student-recommended rating.

Jansson skillfully drove strategic inputs for the new Air Force cyberspace professional continuing education FY24 execution road map. His insights helped garner key senior leader support for innovative change leading to a reversal of an eight-year negative resourcing trend.

He led the department's mobile training range overhaul plan, driving operational checks on 46 physical devices and 83 virtual machines, securing three flawless exercises for eight partner nations bolstering defense amid Russian aggression.

Jansson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master’s degree in cybersecurity from the University of Maryland. He has deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan as Task Force Signal’s Afghan Mission Network Operations Center liaison officer supporting Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and NEW DAWN.