Citizen Portal

Get email alerts on the Workforce Development topic

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Robins AFB software engineering director highlights local recruitment, school outreach

Houston County Board of Commissioners · July 8, 2025

Summary

Mike Doubleday of the 402nd Software Engineering Group described the unit’s role in aircraft systems maintenance and efforts to recruit engineering talent from Southeast universities and local high schools through Project Synergy.

Mike Doubleday, director of the 402nd Software Engineering Group at Robins Air Force Base, addressed the Houston County Board of Commissioners on July 8 about the unit’s mission supporting aircraft computer and navigation systems and ongoing recruitment work. Doubleday, who recounted a 36‑year career at Robins beginning in 1989, said the unit is reaching out to universities across the Southeast and to local high schools through Project Synergy to attract new engineering talent.

Chairman Perdue and Commissioners Gottwals, Robinson and Talton each expressed appreciation for the group’s work supporting military readiness. The presentation underscored local ties between the base and Houston County and the county’s role in workforce development around defense tech jobs.

AI generated

The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.

AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.

Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.

Source