Adapting to Shorter Time Cycles in the United States Air Force Proceedings of a Workshop Series (2021) / Chapter Skim
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Lyles (USAF, ret.) , former Vice Chief of Staff, USAF; Commander, Air Force Materiel Command; director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization; director of the Tactical Aircraft Systems Air Force Sustainment Center; and Short-Range Attack Missile Program Element Monitor, presented several acquisition 13
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, complicating which lessons to apply o any apparent lessons crystalize into later constraints -- legal, collateral damage, appropriate profit M margins, competition versus effective teaming, doctrine, command relationships • Culture could be to create collaborations rather than to build organizations or processes o Relationships are key to flatten time cycles o Trust is critical but needs time to develop o Little success when the focus is on creating organizations or processes o Collaboration needs strategic thought and focus on outcomes o evelopmental planning worked when operators and technologists could collaborate at the level of D making priority tradeoffs o ecurity, stovepipes, and rice bowls will always be a challenge and can only be managed with rela S tionships and trust, but networks are actually getting harder to develop and sustain • Grand strategy and clear guidance on strategic outcome are key to duration of conflict o Need to decide on what winning (or deterring) means because it affects all aspects of time o larifies time required for different audiences: coalition, services, logistics, operations, priority of C actions o Tries to clarify our understanding of ourselves as well as adversaries o Needed to push authorities down to gain time o Allows for tolerance of mistakes o Needed to allow anticipation and accurate planning against opaque major competitor o Allows argument needed to understand best approach to specific issues • Need to understand us in the market place to develop strategies to speed new capabilities o player in microelectronics, 5G. Weaknesses in supply chains Bit o Need to understand how we can be attractive in specific roles -- for example, test sites/platforms o Need to understand financial payoffs of players to see opportunities and challenges o eed to understand cost of legacy and cost and speed of effects ("If I lose the war, that was my N highest cost.")
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He emphasized the significance of support from USAF senior leadership; the Chief and Secretary enabled the development planning effort. He also referenced the 2016 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle,3 which discussed development planning in relation to the Vanguard program.
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Lyles stated that the most significant challenge was helping people to realize that they were all part of one team within the Air Force Materiel Command working to support the warfighters. It is also critical that people are comfortable with experimentation and unafraid of failure.
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THE EMERGENT DIGITAL THREAD AND DIGITAL TWIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMBAT DIAGNOSTICS AND PROGNOSTICS Dr. Thomas Hedberg, Jr., mission lead, Acquisition and Industrial Security, Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS)
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He defined digital thread as an integrated information flow that connects all the phases of the product life cycle using an accepted authoritative data source. He defined digital twin as an integrated model, enabled by the digital thread, that combines data from both the cyber space and the physical space to mirror and predict things over the life of the model's corresponding physical twin.
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Horizontal and vertical integration across the enterprise does not work in the current environment because each level has a different language and approach, which creates both a military problem and a global manufacturing problem. He underscored that if the USAF wants to shorten time cycles, it has to improve trusted decision making in distributed environments by understanding each function and sharing information across boundaries.
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The digital thread and digital twin are unsustainable in the current environment (e.g., a digital thread related to the Next Generation Air Dominance Aircraft requires $80 billion to $180 billion for software development and sustainment; digital twin development and sustainment requires $1 trillion to $2 trillion)
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During the question-and-answer session, Ms. Westphal said that although war is a human endeavor, none of the 2019 NIST digital enterprise projects resemble human endeavors.
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He described the remotely operated vehicle Jason, which is neither cheaper nor safer than Alvin as a means to explore the ocean floor, owing to the required cable with 30,000 lb of tension and 2,400 volts in salt water. However, Jason fundamentally changed the way that the sea floor was explored: It could stay down for 1 week, and it provided a "real-time seminar" for 40 people on the ship.
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Ms. Westphal asked specifically about impacts on the young people who are joining the military as a means to escape poverty.
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Posturing, strategic communication, deception, and manipulation occur long before weapons are fired (during "peacetime") , which is important to consider when discussing reduced time cycles for conflict-related decisions.
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He wondered how the United States prevents the latter ideologies from destroying its vision of liberating the human spirit and encouraging progress. A mechanism is needed to create progress, he continued, and tools exist that will be key for success.
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