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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18580.
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Workshop Participants

WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE

Lester L. Lyles, Chair

Claude M. Bolton, Jr.

Keith A. Coleman

Jill P. Dahlburg

Lawrence J. Delaney

Brian K. Hershberger

William Melvin

Paul D. Nielsen

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STAFF

Terry J. Jaggers, AFSB Director

Carter W. Ford, Program Officer

Norman M. Haller, Rapporteur

Dionna Ali, Research Assistant

SPEAKERS

Eric Evans, Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory

Patricia Falcone, Associate Director, National Security and International Affairs, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18580.
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Brian Hershberger, Senior Aeronautical Engineer, Advanced Development Programs, Lockheed Aeronautics Company

William Melvin, Director of Research, Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Daryl Pelc, Vice President for Engineering, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company

Robie Samanta Roy, Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee

Sonya Sepahban, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Development & Technology, General Dynamics Land Systems

Jim Shields, President and CEO, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Jaiwon Shin, Associate Administrator for Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, NASA HQ

Richard Van Atta, Institute for Defense Analyses

Linton Wells, Director, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University

Robert Whalen, President, International Systems, LLC

Earl C. Wyatt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rapid Fielding, Office of the Secretary of Defense

GUESTS

Paul Decker, Deputy Chief Scientist, DoD

Maj Michael Dunlavy, Materials and Manufacturing Program Element Monitor, U.S. Air Force (SAF/AQR)

CAPT Richard Hencke, Military Assistant to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rapid Fielding, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Col Ralph Sandfry, Military Deputy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering

Reed Skaggs, Assistant Director, Defense Programs, National Security and International Affairs, Office of Science and Technology Policy

David E. Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering, U.S. Air Force

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18580.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy: A Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18580.
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Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies' National Research Council in September 2013 to enhance Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) prototyping for the new defense strategy. This workshop examined of a wide range of prototyping issues, including individual recommendations for a renewed prototype program, application of prototyping as a tool for technology/system development and sustainment (including annual funding), and positive and negative effects of a renewed program.

Prototyping has historically been of great benefit to the Air Force and DoD in terms of risk reduction and concept demonstration prior to system development, advancing new technologies, workforce enhancement and skills continuity between major acquisitions, dissuasion of adversaries by demonstrating capabilities, maintaining technological surprise through classified technologies, and an overarching strategy of overall risk reduction during austere budget environments. Over the last two decades, however, many issues with prototyping have arisen. For example, the definitions and terminology associated with prototyping have been convoluted and budgets for prototyping have been used as offsets to remedy budget shortfalls. Additionally, prototyping has been done with no strategic intent or context, and both government and industry have misused prototyping as a key tool in the DoD and defense industrial base. Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy envisions a prototyping program that encourages innovation in new concepts and approaches and provides a means to assess and reduce risk before commitment to major new programs.

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