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Statement of Task
The Air Force Studies Board (AFSB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene senior representatives from government, military, and industry to discuss risks associated with the technical, programmatic, organizational, and governance challenges facing the Department of the Air Force’s (DAF’s) enterprise-wide digital transformation strategies. Workshop participant’s questions will reveal organizational and management gaps and weaknesses, as well as, technical shortfalls associated with DAF digital transformation strategies—for example, the issue of cybersecurity within the context of the DAF's proposed digital strategies. Proven organizational and management practices from both the public and private sectors will be discussed that can be adapted and adopted within the DAF.
To accomplish this, the Digital Strategy Workshop Series (DSWS) will host a series of three 2-day virtual workshops:
- Presenters at the first workshop will explain and discuss the DAF’s digital transformation strategy—in particular, the proposed Digital Architectures and the systems, programs, organizations, and missions to be supported.
- The second workshop will feature information systems experts and managers from industry and other government agencies to discuss their experience with digital transformations and their views of best practices.
- The third workshop will focus on discussions of the potential applicability of lessons from Workshop #2 to the DAF’s Digital transformation strategy and architecture.
A recording will be made available immediately following each workshop, to be followed by a single rapporteur-authored proceedings that will include all three workshops in the series prepared in accordance with institutional guidelines.
