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Air Force Materiel Command ESC Role in Technology Development Lt Gen Ted Bowlds ESC/CC 3 Sep 09 Integrity Service Excellence Shape Technology Investment AF Needs – Capability Gaps C2 & CS Enterprise Needs • Identify • Assess • Plan ESC Technology Needs Investment Strategy Tech Dev Enablers Independent R&D ESC Technology Investment Decisions 2 Enablers Investment Strategy Tech Dev Enablers Independent R&D Independent R&D ESC Technology Investment Decisions 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 3 Acquisition in the New World • Characteristics Venture Capitalists in Nature – SOA Common Based Denominator Applications Of Requirements Quick Very Quick Reaction – Days Reaction vs WeeksData – Presume Structure To Ensure Service Integrity & Data (Info Rely Assurance on Judgment, Not Integrity) Process – Necessary Oversight And Standards Applications Applications Common Core Services Data Traditional Acquisition Lab/SB User Requirements Quick Reaction Innovation Across The Spectrum 4 Some ESC IT Technology Needs • 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 5 A “Venture Capital” Approach • Leveraging “other people’s” money • SBIRs • MITRE MOIEs & MSRs • IRAD • CRADA • Ongoing Leveraging Venture Capital activities • DeVenci • In-Q-Tel • OnPoint In Planning Novel Approaches To Identify Innovative Solutions For ESC Technical Problems Technology Open House • 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 Persistent Virtual Warfighter Environment (PVWE) 2. Role Playing Vignette Technology Open House 1. Participant Guidelines Collaboration Space User Centric 3. Requirements Tailored Solutions; Horizontally Integrated 4. Build POR Enabling Technologies; Unique Configurations POR