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The Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine hosted a three-part workshop series to
examine the risks associated with the technical, programmatic,
organizational, and governance challenges facing the Department of
the Air Force (DAF) in its pursuit of enterprise-wide digital
transformation strategies. Senior representatives from government,
military, industry, and academia considered the DAF's
strategic-level decision-making process as well as how it could
achieve unity of effort across all of its digital agencies.
Workshop participants discussed organizational and management gaps
and weaknesses, as well as technical shortfalls associated with the
DAF's digital transformation strategies - for example, the issue of
cybersecurity within the context of the DAF's proposed digital
strategies. Organizational and management practices from both the
public and private sectors were also discussed in light of their
potential for adaptation and adoption within the DAF. Sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Defense, the three 2-day workshops of the
series were held virtually on September 1-2, 2021, September 8-9,
2021, and September 23-24. Panelists at the first workshop
explained and discussed the DAF's digital transformation strategy -
in particular, the proposed digital architectures and the systems,
programs, organizations, and missions to be supported. The second
workshop featured panels of information systems experts and
managers from industry and other government agencies who discussed
their experiences with digital transformations and shared their
views of best practices. The third workshop focused on the
potential applicability of these lessons learned to the DAF's
digital transformation strategy and architecture. This proceedings
is a factual summary of what occurred during the workshop series.
Table of Contents Front Matter Introduction 1 Workshop One, Part
One 2 Workshop One, Part Two 3 Workshop Two, Part One 4 Workshop
Two, Part Two 5 Workshop Three, Part One 6 Workshop Three, Part Two
Appendixes Appendix A: Statement of Task Appendix B: Workshop
Agendas Appendix C: Biographical Information for Planning Committee
Members Appendix D: Chief of Staff of the Air Force Strategic
Studies Group Project and Study Ideas Appendix E: Workshop Series
Recap Meeting
The Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine hosted a three-part workshop series to
investigate the changing paradigm of time and knowledge in
modern-day warfare. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense,
three 2-day workshops were held virtually on September 16-17, 2020,
September 23-24, 2020, and October 1-2, 2020. The objective of the
first workshop was to explore the ways in which the U.S. Air Force
(USAF) has adjusted its capabilities in response to past shifts in
operational timing. In consideration of these past shifts, the
second workshop aimed to consider when there could be an advantage
to synchronize or desynchronize rates of change with adversaries.
Participants had the opportunity to discuss lessons learned and
possible changes for USAF Doctrine and future operations. The goal
of the third workshop was to examine the implications to doctrine,
concepts of operations, and command and control from the recent
acceleration of battlespace operations, arising from wide-scale
digitization, large-scale sensing, and faster technologies. In all
three workshops, speakers explored the broader issues surrounding
changing environments, and participants discussed ways to adapt to
fundamental changes in the time constants of conflict. This
proceedings is a factual summary of what occurred during the
workshop series. Table of Contents Front Matter Introduction 1
Workshop One, Part One 2 Workshop One, Part Two 3 Workshop Two,
Part One 4 Workshop Two, Part Two 5 Workshop Three, Part One 6
Workshop Three, Part Two Appendixes Appendix A: Statement of Task
Appendix B: Workshop Agendas Appendix C: Biographical Information
for Planning Committee Members Appendix D: Uncertainty, Stability,
Instability, Military Affairs, and Time: Some Thoughts and
Conjectures Appendix E: Thoughts and Reactions to Planning
Committee Discussions Appendix F: E-Mail Commentary on Workshops
One and Two Appendix G: Workshop Series Recap Meeting
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Hypersonic Technology for Military Application (Paperback)
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Air Force Studies Board, Committee on Hypersonic Technology for Military Application
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The Department of Defense (DOD) spends over $300 billion each year
to develop, produce, field and sustain weapons systems (the U.S.
Air Force over $100 billion per year). DOD and Air Force
acquisitions programs often experience large cost overruns and
schedule delays leading to a loss in confidence in the defense
acquisition system and the people who work in it. Part of the DOD
and Air Force response to these problems has been to increase the
number of program and technical reviews that acquisition programs
must undergo. This book looks specifically at the reviews that U.S.
Air Force acquisition programs are required to undergo and poses a
key question: Can changes in the number, content, or sequence of
reviews help Air Force program managers more successfully execute
their programs? This book concludes that, unless they do it better
than they are now, Air Force and DOD attempts to address poor
acquisition program performance with additional reviews will fail.
This book makes five recommendations that together form a gold
standard for conduct of reviews and if implemented and rigorously
managed by Air Force and DOD acquisition executives can increase
review effectiveness and efficiency. The bottom line is to help
program managers successfully execute their programs. Table of
Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Findings and
Conclusions 3 Recommendations Appendixes Appendix A: Biographical
Sketches of Committee Members Appendix B: Meetings and Speakers
Appendix C: Related Studies Appendix D: Survey Appendix E: Types of
Reviews
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Future Air Force Needs for Survivability (Paperback)
Committee on Future Air Force Needs for Survivability, Air Force Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
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A key technical issue for future Air Force systems is to improve
their ability to survive. Increased use of stealth technology is
proposed by many to be the major element in efforts to enhance
survivability for future systems. Others, however, suggest that the
high cost and maintenance required of stealth technology make
increased speed potentially more productive. To help address this
issue, the Air Force asked the NRC to investigate combinations of
speed and stealth that would provide U.S. aircraft with a high
survival capability in the 2018 period, and to identify changes in
R&D plans to enable such aircraft. This report presents: a
review of stealth technology development; a discussion of possible
future missions and threats; an analysis of the technical
feasibility for achieving various levels of stealth and different
speeds by 2018 and of relevant near-term R&D needs and
priorities; and, observations about the utility of speed and
stealth trade-offs against evolving threats.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest consumer of energy
in the federal government. In turn, the U.S. Air Force is the
largest consumer of energy in the DoD, with a total annual energy
expenditure of around $10 billion. Approximately 84 percent of Air
Force energy use involves liquid fuel consumed in aviation whereas
approximately 12 percent is energy (primarily electricity) used in
facilities on the ground. This workshop was concerned primarily
with opportunities to reduce energy consumption within Air Force
facilities that employ energy intensive industrial processes-for
example, assembly/disassembly, painting, metal working, and
operation of radar facilities-such as those that occur in the
maintenance depots and testing facilities. Air Force efforts to
reduce energy consumption are driven largely by external goals and
mandates derived from Congressional legislation and executive
orders. To date, these goals and mandates have targeted the energy
used at the building or facility level rather than in specific
industrial processes. In response to a request from the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy and the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and
Engineering, the National Research Council, under the auspices of
the Air Force Studies Board, formed the Committee on Energy
Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes:
A Workshop. The terms of reference called for a committee to plan
and convene one 3 day public workshop to discuss: (1) what are the
current industrial processes that are least efficient and most cost
ineffective? (2) what are best practices in comparable facilities
for comparable processes to achieve energy efficiency? (3) what are
the potential applications for the best practices to be found in
comparable facilities for comparable processes to achieve energy
efficiency? (4) what are constraints and considerations that might
limit applicability to Air Force facilities and processes over the
next ten year implementation time frame? (5) what are the costs and
paybacks from implementation of the best practices? (6) what will
be a proposed resulting scheme of priorities for study and
implementation of the identified best practices? (7) what does a
holistic representation of energy and water consumption look like
within operations and maintenance? Table of Contents Front Matter
Overview 1 Introduction 2 Presentations and Comments 3 Wrap Up
Discussion Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix B Workshop Agenda Appendix C Workshop Participants
Appendix D Presentation Abstracts Appendix E Energy Management
Checklist
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities
have expanded situation awareness for U.S. forces, provided for
more precise combat effects, and enabled better decision making
both during conflicts and in peacetime, and reliance on ISR
capabilities is expected to increase in the future. ISR
capabilities are critical to 3 of the 12 Service Core Functions of
the U.S. Air Force: namely, Global Integrated ISR (GIISR) and the
ISR components of Cyberspace Superiority and Space Superiority, and
contribute to all others. In response to a request from the Air
Force for ISR and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for Science, Technology, and Engineering, the National Research
Council formed the Committee on Examination of the Air Force
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Capability
Planning and Analysis (CP&A) Process. In this report, the
committee reviews the current approach to the Air Force corporate
planning and programming process for ISR capability generation;
examines carious analytical methods, processes, and models for
large-scale, complex domains like ISR; and identifies the best
practices for the Air Force. In Capability Planning and Analysis to
Optimize Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Investments, the current approach is analyzed and the best
practices for the Air Force corporate planning and programming
processed for ISR are recommended. This report also recommends
improvements and changes to existing analytical tools, methods,
roles and responsibilities, and organization and management that
would be required to ensure the Air Force corporate planning and
programming process for ISR is successful in addressing all Joint,
National, and Coalition partner's needs. Table of Contents Front
Matter Summary 1 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Challenges Facing the Air Force 2 The Current State of the Air
Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Investment
Planning Process 3 Examples of Processes Employed by Government and
Industry for Providing Capability Planning and Analysis 4 Toward an
Enhanced Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Capability Planning and Analysis Process Appendixes Appendix A:
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members Appendix B: List of
Committee Meetings, Presenters, and Participating Organizations
Appendix C: Supplement to Chapter 3: Descriptions of Additional
Organizational CP&A Processes and Tools
Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing
at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained
essentially flat. The cost growth is due partly to aging of the
aircraft fleet, and partly to the cost of supporting
higher-performance aircraft and new capabilities provided by more
complex and sophisticated systems, such as the latest intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms. Furthermore, the
expectation for the foreseeable future is that sustainment budgets
are likely to decrease, so that the gap between budgets and
sustainment needs will likely continue to grow wider. Most
observers accept that the Air Force will have to adopt new
approaches to WSS if it is going to address this problem and remain
capable of carrying out its missions. In this context, the original
intent of this 3-day workshop was to focus on ways that science and
technology (S&T) could help the Air Force reduce sustainment
costs. However, as the workshop evolved, the discussions focused
more and more on Air Force leadership, management authority, and
culture as the more critical factors that need to change in order
to solve sustainment problems. Many participants felt that while
S&T investments could certainly help-particularly if applied in
the early stages ("to the left") of the product life cycle-adopting
a transformational management approach that defines the user-driven
goals of the enterprise, empowers people to achieve them, and holds
them accountable, down to the shop level. Several workshop
participants urged Air Force leaders to start the process now, even
though it will take years to percolate down through the entire
organization. These sustainment concerns are not new and have been
studied extensively, including recent reports from the National
Research Council's Air Force Studies Board and the Air Force
Scientific Advisory Board. Table of Contents Front Matter Overview
1 Introduction 2 Presentations and Comments 3 Wrap-Up Discussion
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members Appendix B:
Workshop Agenda Appendix C: Workshop Participants Appendix D:
Presentation Abstracts
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