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Appendix G: Workshop Series Recap Meeting
Appendix G: Workshop Series Recap Meeting
Pages 113-124
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Ms. Deborah Westphal, chairman of the board, Toffler Associates, conveyed her initial thoughts about the major themes of the workshop series: • Planning for future warfare o he USAF is at its best when it is mission focused.
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Dr. Julie Ryan, chief executive officer, Wyndrose Technical Group, shared several prominent themes that she observed during the workshop series: • Technology is not a panacea; it provides time advantages and time vulnerabilities, depending on how the technology is integrated into the fabric of the overall operational construct.
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S • Humans process information differently than machines (humans by nature are visual data processors) ; it is important to provide information to humans in a way that their brains are hardwired to accept in order to speed knowledge transfer.
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, chief technology officer, IAI North America, presented three themes that he observed over the course of the workshop series: (1) The speed of technology capability development and the speed of integrating established technologies are enabled by a quality champion, not necessarily an organization.
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Multiple participants described focused and more rapid acquisition processes that could help while they acknowledged the challenges of maintaining top cover and consistent funding for "special" acquisitions. • Some discussions highlighted the challenge of a potential conflict with a peer competitor who was intricately involved in the global economy.
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Discussions of the time dimensions that the USAF might consider in developing future CONOPS highlighted the variety of ways to think of time and the need to understand time from the perspective of competitors. • Participants discussed time as linear, cyclic, accelerating in areas and slowing in others, and buffeted by notions of complexity, chaos, and uncertainty.
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A disappointing revelation from the workshop series, he continued, was that speakers continually discussed how the USAF has difficulty adopting new ideas, especially when there are no champions willing to exert heroic efforts to overcome the system. While that is clearly not the right way to do business, it continues to be the way that business is done in the USAF.
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. The United States Air Force will pursue an integrated design and field modernized forces that can: • Connect the Joint Force so we can more seamlessly integrate as a Joint team, • Dominate Space through support of our sister service, the United States Space Force, • Generate Combat Power to blunt any attack against the U.S.
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In long term need to generate combat power without fixed infrastructure. • eed evolving operating concept that involves total DoD capability; "All Domain Command and ontrol" -- N C joint automation.
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He shared a definition from Wikipedia of hybrid warfare: "a military strategy [that] employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare, and cyber warfare with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy, lawfare, and foreign electoral intervention."2 He described it as a definition that encompasses too much; however, he agreed that hybrid warfare means using all resources at the disposal of the state in its conflict with other states.
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data centers and communication lines would paralyze the entire nation; it would be unable to organize itself without a steady supply of data owing to its overreliance on bureaucracy. Because future data will be on commercial web services, she continued, it is important to have a minimal essential set of data that could be accessed quickly within a denial of data scenario.
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The hope is that the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability would generate gaps and opportunities, and the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) would prompt experiments to occur in a more coherent way.
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