Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy A Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Different opinions have been included to both inform particular themes and illustrate the range of views expressed; however, a lack of different opinions in the summaries of particular points does not imply there were none. Additionally, all views from the workshop, including any suggestions for future actions by the Air Force or others, expressed in this workshop summary are solely the views of individual participants as understood and interpreted by the rapporteur.
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1 William Melvin, Director, Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute. 2 Brian Hershberger, Senior Aeronautical Engineer, Advanced Development Programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.
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For example, Patricia Falcone, Associate Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, advo cated enhancing DoD's prototyping competency by defining targeted prototyping efforts, which will not only deliver value but attract and connect innovators, thereby strengthening talent, competency, and capabilities. In addition, Brian Hershberger, Senior Aeronautical Engineer, Advanced Development Programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, proclaimed "Prototypes are high value enablers to grow the workforce experience base." A substantial number of examples of prototyping successes described during the workshop involved past experiments and demonstrations, such as X-planes, that greatly advanced U.S.
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SOURCE: Brian Hershberger, Senior Aeronautical Engineer, Advanced Development Programs, Lock heed Martin Aeronautics. "Lockheed Martin Perspectives," presentation to the workshop on September 25, 2013.
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For example, William Melvin, Director, Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, said "Prototyping is both a tool and a strategy." Daryl Pelc, Vice President for Engineering, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company, stated his organization's approach is "Prototype to win." Jim Shields, President and CEO, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, discussed "Prototyping as a strategy rather than a program." Dr. Melvin explained it this way: "As a strategy, we use prototyping to further our customer's objectives, …to build credibility in all we do, to create a culture of excellence in applied R&D [research and development]
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Current prototype programs, though not as newsworthy, are developing improved processes for technical advancement. One example is strategic teaming, which Sonya Sepahban, Senior Vice President, Engineering and 8 A participant noted that active management could also mean enabling flexibility in program development, stalwartly blocking requirements creep, and concertedly minimizing expensive and unnecessary documentation.
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For example, Earl Wyatt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rapid Fielding, indicated movement from a "responsive model" of prototyping driven mostly by user pull toward more of an "emerging capabilities" model, which reflects a desire to return to more forward leaning prototypes of the past. This approach would develop options for future threats and anticipated capability shortfalls; it would also consider increased needs to reduce sustainment costs.
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But the Air Force representative was concerned that some in DoD believe prototyping should not occur until it is part of a program of record. Interestingly, Jim Shields, President and CEO, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, made the point that "requirements-based acquisition is often too reactive to embrace prototyping," suggesting there is also opposition to prototyping in the program-of-record phase.
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18 Brian Hershberger, Senior Aeronautical Engineer, Advanced Development Programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.
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the Navy has ways of accommodating both technology push and requirements pull in its activities; (2) the Air Force problem may be one of labeling technology demon strations as prototypes, conjuring up a big competition between companies to win a production contract; (3)
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Theme 4 identified Mr. Wyatt's proposed strategy, which is to shift to the new model called emerging capabilities prototyping -- thereby achieving better balance between technology push and requirements pull by engaging prototypes across the TRL spectrum.
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Over the past ten years, the United States and its coalition allies and partners have learned hard lessons and applied new operational approaches in the counter terrorism, counterinsurgency, and security force assistance arenas, most often operating in uncontested sea and air environments. Accord ingly, similar work needs to be done to ensure the United States, its allies, and partners are capable of operating in A2/AD, cyber, and other contested operating environments.
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SOURCE: Earl Wyatt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rapid Fielding, "OSD Perspective," presentation to the workshop on September 24, 2013. NOTE: CJCSI, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruc tion; CWMD; counter weapons of mass destruction; D2D, data to decisions; ERS, engineered resilient systems; EW/EP, electronic warfare/electronic protection.
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Falcone's final statement about resources was accompanied by the factual comment that, "Until 1998, the DoD budget included ‘6.3B' for systems advanced development that supported rapid prototyping programs; this no longer exists."24,25 Dr. Falcone's factual comment and related discussions during the workshop sug gested to many participants that returning to the past, a funded program element in S&T for prototyping, offers a way to enhance Air Force and DoD prototyping for the new defense strategy.
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