Digital Strategy for the Department of the Air Force Proceedings of a Workshop Series (2022) / Chapter Skim
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He referenced National Academies efforts over the past several years that serve as a foundation to the topic of digital transformation, including a workshop on multi-domain command and control,1 a workshop series on the time value of decision making,2 and a study on energy needs at the tactical edge.3 All of these efforts relate to and raise questions about the DAF's overarching digital transformation strategy.
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Reflecting on her time as an intelligence officer supporting close air support operations, Hon. Ortiz Jones underscored how quickly information should move between a collector and a shooter, for example, as well as the need for tools to ensure that the Air Force is "doing the right things and doing things right." Digital transformation, she continued, should be geared toward achieving these objectives.
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In closing, Hon. Ortiz Jones solicited feedback from the Air Force Studies Board about any missed opportunities to recruit and retain airmen and guardians; risks, challenges, and opportunities that should be considered when assessing capabilities and generating timelines; and better ways to communicate with appropriators in Congress the message that although the digital transformation will be expensive and challenging, it is necessary to become a more resilient digital force that can confront the threat.
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Gen. Thompson remarked that in order to demonstrate space superiority and protect the nation's interests in space; to deter aggressive acts from others; and to ensure freedom of action for the space forces, the space systems, and the forces in the air, on the ground, and at sea, the Space Force has to dominate the digital domain.
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Ms. Westphal asked if the Space Force's digitization efforts will be different from those of the Air Force.
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First, a digital workforce has the expertise to evaluate available technologies. The Space Force guardians will have digital fluency, with the ability to understand and use the appropriate digital vocabulary to select technologies that will support operational outcomes.
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Mr. Edwin Oshiba, Senior Executive Service, Director of Resource Integration, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection, HAF A4, explained that digital transformation is essential to support logistics for the men, women, and machines at war.
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If there were an augmented reality of the space domain and available systems where operators could take actions and a thinking adversary could try to deny the missions the operators were trying to accomplish, this could better prepare operators to maintain a mission set in a contested environment and help validate tactics in a new way. If high-fidelity digital twins are integrated into the augmented reality, meaningful conclusions could be drawn.
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The RCO is developing some of this digital architecture and working closely with the Office of the Chief Information Officer, the Air Force Chief Data Office, A2/6, and across the rest of Air Force Futures to ensure coherence. The first phase of operation is to connect the force in a way that is inherently resilient to major attack.
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He explained that the Air Force stood up its digital initiative 8 A planning choice is a "wedge" in the resource allocation plan for some amount of resourcing associated with whatever capability that the Air Force is trying to prepare for in the future force design.
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Open Discussion Mr. Martin Akerman, Chief Data Strategist, Office of the Chief Data Officer, DAF, noted that to create data pipelines, funding should be allocated for the data provider even though the data user benefits.
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Mr. Jones explained that the J6's cross-functional team has a direct line to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council to validate joint warfighting requirements and a direct line to the Deputy Secretary of Defense to make funding recommendations.
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He suggested that executing data policies and holding people accountable for adhering to those policies would lead to authoritative and accessible data feeds. A participant wondered how to incentivize radical data transparency with suppliers, services, and Combatant Commands.
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He affirmed that protecting data is a key part of achieving security: if the United States does not protect its information advantage, it would regret that decision 10 years from now.
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