Opinions are Interesting – “Big Data” is Illuminating

Air Force - Kim Brown

Data at the Speed of

Combat Operations

Data Must Provide Value THAT MATTERS

Data as THE Asset

As Important As Fuel

▪ Connect the front to the rear

▪ Flow seamlessly

▪ Reflect real and near-real time status

▪ Be visible at all levels

▪ Have the right validity, volume, veracity, velocity,

variety

Logistics Data Characteristics

▪ Have role-based business rule/access

▪ ERP must be a tool for transactional business processes

– NOT a decision tool

▪ Have user-friendly configurable views

▪ Have flexible & adaptable interfaces with relevant Log

systems

Data Collection Methods

• Human centered maintenance approach

• Integration of advanced tools with inherent ubiquitous

and pervasive analytics • Interactive point of generation collection

• Advanced data analytics and data scientist applications

• Effective data output streams to feed into AF LOG-IT

TODAY TOMORROW FUTURE

Manual entry, pen/paper Full automation

w/ ubiquitous & pervasive

Enhanced Data Integrity

Enhance the Maintainer’s Job!Enhance the Maintainer’s Job!

Current State

ESCAPE

MROi

Strike Team 3:

LogIT Cloud

Migration

Basing & Logistics

Analytics Data

Environment

(BLADE)

AF CDO Architecture

Enterprise Information

Model

Data Management (Metadata Management, Data Standards, Discovery, Data Quality, MDM, Architecture, Security)

Strike Team 2:

Data Services,

Analytics, LIMS-EV

Strike Team 1:

LogIT Clustering /

Consolidation

LCI Data Integration

Current State Transitional State End State

?Other CI’s

LCI Data Integration

End State Architectural Framework -A4 Basing & Logistics Analytics Data Environment