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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Adapting to Shorter Time Cycles in the United States Air Force: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26148.
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Statement of Task

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc planning committee to conduct an investigation of the changing paradigm of time and knowledge in modern day warfare. The workshops will feature invited presentations and discussions to meet each workshop’s objectives.

  1. Presenters at the first workshop will identify how the United States Air Force (USAF) adjusted its capabilities—in terms of systems, doctrine, training, etc.—to selected past shifts caused by changes in operational timing. Workshop participants will catalogue what was changed and discuss timing, sequence, effectiveness, limitations, lessons learned, and other attributes of value.
  2. The second workshop will examine the same past shifts discussed in the first workshop and participants will identify where there is advantage to synchronizing rates of change with the threat/adversaries or when there is an advantage to desynchronize rates of change. Participants will discuss how this may change doctrine and concepts of operations for future Air Force operations and what general lessons may be extracted.
  3. The third workshop will discuss implications to doctrine, concept of operations, and command and control of recent acceleration of battle space operations, arising from wide-scale digitization, large-scale sensing, and faster technologies (e.g. hypersonics). Participants will attempt to characterize a general framework for adapting to fundamental changes in the “time constants” of conflict.

A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshops will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Adapting to Shorter Time Cycles in the United States Air Force: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26148.
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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 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.

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