Integrity Integrity Service Service Excellence Excellence

ESC Role in Technology

DevelopmentLt Gen Ted Bowlds

ESC/CC3 Sep 09

Air Force Materiel Command

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C2 & CS Enterprise Needs

AF Needs – Capability Gaps

• Identify• Assess

• Plan

Tech Dev Enablers

ESC Technology

Needs

ESC Technology Investment Decisions

Investment Strategy

Shape Technology Investment

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Tech Dev Enablers

ESC Technology Investment Decisions

Investment Strategy

Partnership w/ AFRL• Disseminate ESC Needs• ID linkage w/ Industry• Deconflict w/ AFRL Investments• Monitor Industrial Innovation

PEO C2 & CS Allocation• Stimulate technological innovation• Use small business to meet Federal R&D needs

Enablers

Common Core ServicesData

Acquisition in the New World

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• Characteristics– Common Denominator Of Requirements– Structure To Ensure Service (Info

Assurance & Data Integrity)– Necessary Oversight And Standards

Traditional Acquisition

Lab/SB

QuickReaction

User Requirements

Characteristics Venture Capitalists in Nature Very Quick Reaction – Days

vs Weeks Rely on Judgment, Not

Process

Applications

Applications

Innovation Across The Spectrum

Characteristics SOA Based Applications Quick Reaction Presume Data Integrity

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• Tactical Broadband Wireless Solutions at Forward Operating Bases

• Addressing Scheme to enable Tactical Data Network (TDN)-Internet Protocol (IP)-Voice Bridging

• Item Unique Identification/ Unique Item Identifier

• Radio Frequency Identification

Some ESC IT Technology Needs

• Leveraging “other people’s” money• SBIRs• MITRE MOIEs & MSRs• IRAD• CRADA

• Leveraging Venture Capital activities• DeVenci• In-Q-Tel• OnPoint

Ongoing

In Planning

Novel Approaches To Identify Innovative Solutions For ESC Technical Problems

A “Venture Capital” Approach

• Objective: To illustrate netcentric ops through application of technologies against an operational scenario; “The Art of the Possible and the Now”

• How: Presentation of compelling demonstrations & virtualizations developed through collaboration between warfighters, technologists & acquirers

• Process: – Users create a vignette illustrating netcentric TTPs & CONOPs

(“requirements”)– Technologies are found via SBIRs, DARPA, CRADAs, A/JCTDs,

PoRs, experiments, etc.– Technologies are horizontally integrated with user as part of the

build– Standards, products, architectures, process models, etc become

GFP/GFI to PoRs or warfighter units

Technology Open House

Persistent Virtual Warfighter Environment (PVWE)

Vignette

1. Participant Guidelines

2. Role Playing

3. Requirements

4. Build

User Centric

Technology Open House

Collaboration Space

PORPOR

Tailored Solutions; Horizontally Integrated

Enabling Technologies; Unique Configurations

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