COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Air Force Academy, still emerging from a sexual assault scandal, is sponsoring a workshop on Saturday designed to share what officials have learned about how to stop rape.

"We as military members have a lot of information and experience we've covered in the last year," said Col. Debra Gray, the cadet vice commandant who leads a team that oversees sexual assault issues.

"We want to share that with as many people as will listen," she said. "It's a leadership issue in our community as well as at the academy."

It has been more than a year since 7NEWS broke the story of the AFA's sex assault scandal, in which female cadets said they were being investigated, punished and in some cases drummed out of school for reporting the rapes.

Dozens of women told 7NEWS that academy commanders ignored their reports and protected rapists from prosecution. The academy responded by ousting several top leaders and making sweeping policy changes. The military is still investigating how its branches handle sexual assault cases.

The weekend workshop will include David Lasik, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and director of the Men's Sexual Trauma Research Project. He said at least two-thirds of rapists commit an average of six attacks before they are arrested.

"They (rapists) are very sophisticated in observing victims, grooming victims, gaining their trust, basically setting up victims, isolating them, using alcohol as a weapon to get them as intoxicated as possible so they're less likely to be capable of resisting," he said.

Anne Munch, another speaker at the workshop, is a former prosecutor and current director of Ending Violence Against Women in Denver. She said research shows only 16 percent of rape victims actually tell authorities.

Lasik and Munch commended the Air Force for its response to the academy scandal.

"I'm really thrilled that the academy and the Air Force have taken this issue on that I've not seen any other institution in this country take on," Lasik said.

What's Happened Since?

For months, the Department of Defense's inspector general has been investigating the academy and its procedures in dealing with women who came forward to report rape or sexual assault. That report is due out in June and is expected to hold former officers at the academy responsible for their part in either ignoring or covering up the scandal, 7NEWS Investigator John Ferrugia said.

The Inspector General's investigation is expected to be the final word on the scandal and comes after a congressionally appointed civilian review panel delivered a scathing indictment of the former leadership.

"We found a deep chasm in leadership in the most critical time in the academy's history, one that extended beyond its campus in Colorado Springs," said former Florida Rep. Tillie Fowler, chairwoman of the panel. "Sadly, we believe this chasm in leadership helped create an environment in which sexual assault became part of life."

The former superintendent and commandant of cadets, as well as other top leaders at the academy were fired. Gen. John Dallagher was demoted and retired.

The new academy leadership that took over last year was met with new allegations of sexual assault and rape involving both civilians and female cadets. A recent Air Force survey showed that nearly one in four male cadets didn't think women belonged at the Air Force Academy.

That is the attitude and the culture the present leadership of the academy is vowing to change and the generals in charge are taking drastic steps to improve the climate for female cadets. But the question that remains is a simple one: who was responsible for ignoring or covering up the scandal?

Congress is waiting for the Inspector General's report to see whether it will hold any of the former generals at the academy responsible.