Download or read book Air Force Concept Development and Experimentation written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) provides policy for Air Force Concept Development and Experimentation (AF CD&E). It implements AF responsibilities within Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 3010.02C, Joint Concept Development and Experimentation (JCD&E), applicable guidance in CJCSI 3170.01H, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), and Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 5100.01, Functions of the Department of Defense and Its Major Components, and applies to AF organizations (*see AFRL/Air Force Planning caveats in terms section), including the Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve Command"--Page 1.
Download or read book The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force (USAF) has continuously sought to improve the speed with which it develops new capabilities to accomplish its various missions in air, space, and cyberspace. Historically, innovation has been a key part of USAF strategy, and operating within an adversary's OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) is part of Air Force DNA. This includes the ability to deploy technological innovations faster than do our adversaries. The Air Force faces adversaries with the potential to operate within the USAF's OODA loop, and some of these adversaries are already deploying innovations faster than the USAF. The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle examines the current state of innovation and experimentation in the Air Force and best practices in innovation and experimentation in industry and other government agencies. This report also explores organizational changes needed to eliminate the barriers that deter innovation and experimentation and makes recommendations for the successful implementation of robust innovation and experimentation by the Air Force.
Download or read book Air Force Experimentation written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Air Force Instruction (AFI) implements Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 10-28, Air Force Concept Development and Experimentation. It applies to al Air Force active and reserve units, and to Air National Guard (ANG) units in United States Title 10 status. when sponsoring, participating in, or otherwise supporting experimentation in support of AF and joint capability developments ... Per AFPD 10-28, the AF uses experimentation to help mature concepts, to identify gaps in capabilities, and to evaluate solutions that potential mitigate current and future capability gaps. This AFI establishes responsibilities and describes processes for experimentation, including Title 10 Wargames"--Pages 1-3.
Download or read book Force Development Concepts written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication implements portions of Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 10-28, Air Force concept development and experimentation, and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 3010.02D, Guidance for Development and Implementation of joint concepts. It covers force development concepts written by Headquarters Air Force (HAF) 2-digit organizations, Major Command (MAJCOM) headquarters, and the Air National Guard Readiness Center (ANGRC). It also covers AF support to concept development activities of the Joint Staff, combatant commands (CCMDs), sister Services, and other organizations external to the Department of the Air Force (DAF). It applies to regular and reserve component AF organizations above the wing level that are involved in the force development concept activities described herein"--Page 1.
Download or read book Military Operating Concepts Development written by Ivo Pikner and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-01-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense is in the process of transforming the nation's armed forces to meet the military challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the opportunity exists to carry out experiments at individual and joint service levels to facilitate this transformation. Experimentation, which involves a spectrum of activities including analyses, war games, modeling and simulation, small focused experiments, and large field events among other things, provides the means to enhance naval and joint force development. To assist the Navy in this effort, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a study to examine the role of experimentation in building future naval forces to operate in the joint environment. The NRC formed the Committee for the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces to perform the study.
Download or read book Air Force Future Operating Concept a View of the Air Force In 2035 written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force Future Operating Concept broadly portrays how the future Air Force will conduct its five core missions as part of a joint, interagency, or multinational force, or independently in support of national security objectives. The central idea is this: "In 2035, AF forces will leverage operational agility as a way to adapt swiftly to any situation or enemy action. Operational agility is the ability to rapidly generate -and shift among -multiple solutions for a given challenge." By using operational agility as a guiding principle in the conduct of our core missions, we can preserve the Air Force's ability to act quickly in response to any challenge. Through application of this central idea, we describe our vision for how future Air Force forces may operate. The Air Force seeks bold and innovative approaches to its core missions, and success will also depend on close relationships with partners, particularly the members of the joint team. The ideas in this concept form a basis for examination, experimentation, and capability development planning for building the Air Force of the future. We now face another of those crucial moments in time. The dynamic, complex future is already beginning to challenge us. It is time for this generation of Airmen to develop a way to succeed. We invite you to read about our concept and visualize how Air Force forces of the future may contribute to a strong National defense, support for our allies and partners, and a free and stable world for all.Contents: Concept for Future air Force Operations * Air Force Core Missions - 2035 * Implications * ConclusionWhile the AF Future Operating Concept portrays skilled Airmen employing advanced technology in innovative ways to deter and defeat adversaries, it also emphasizes that the nature of warfare will not change over the next two decades. War will remain a clash of wills between thinking adversaries, and it will occur in an environment of uncertainty and rapid change. However, the character of warfare is becoming far less predictable and more complex. No technology or technique will eliminate the metaphorical fog and friction of warfare, and no military advantage will go unchallenged by adversaries seeking to achieve their objectives and deny us ours. While war will remain an instrument of policy, with associated constraints/restraints and specified missions for military forces, navigating the relationship between policy and war will be even more challenging in the complex future.The AFSEA, which compiles the expert analyses of the future environment across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and think tanks, highlights that the era in which the United States can project power globally essentially uncontested has ended. It identifies four emerging trends that are highly likely to characterize the future: increasing speed and proliferation of technological change, geopolitical instability, increasing scarcity of natural resources, and an increasingly important and vulnerable global commons. The AFSEA uses these trends to derive six emerging trends with implications for the Air Force: 1) adversaries' acquisition and development of capabilities to challenge the U.S.; 2) increasing importance or frequency of irregular, urban, humanitarian, and intelligence operations; 3) increasing challenges to deterrence; 4) energy costs; 5) exploiting new technology opportunities; and 6) challenges of climate change. The rapid pace of change occurring throughout the world acts as a common thread between these trends and implications, and compounds the uncertainty and complexity of the future environment.
Download or read book Gaining New Military Capability written by J. L. Birkler and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of modernizing U.S. military forces is the focus of this report.
Download or read book The Future of Allied Air Power written by Brad W Gladman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation 1945 1965 written by Stephen B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Experimentation written by Alex Post and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Professional judgement alone has proved insufficient as the basis for making capability decisions. To help reduce the uncertainty of the future, and to help identify the most appropriate military concepts of operation for Australia's unique circumstances, the Australian Defence Organisation has implemented a process of concept development and experimentation. The aim of this process is to better inform decision-makers by learning about the future through experimental activities that allow us to employ future capabilities, and gain experience of them, before they are created. This process not only provides greater insight into the future but also reduces the costs and risks that would otherwise be incurred by acquiring this same knowledge after the capability is actually created. ...--Publisher website.
Download or read book The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Cycle written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Efforts of the Military Services in Implementing Joint Experimentation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development Planning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has never been smooth. Only the extraordinary efforts of exceptional leadership - in the Air Forces and the wider Department of Defense, in science and in industry - have made the triumphs of military airpower possible. Development Planning provides recommendations to improve development planning for near-term acquisition projects, concepts not quite ready for acquisition, corporate strategic plans, and training of acquisition personnel. This report reviews past uses of development planning by the Air Force, and offers an organizational construct that will help the Air Force across its core functions. Developmental planning, used properly by experienced practitioners, can provide the Air Force leadership with a tool to answer the critical question, Over the next 20 years in 5-year increments, what capability gaps will the Air Force have that must be filled? Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.
Download or read book Signal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Efforts of the Military Services in Implementing Joint Experimentation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradigm Shift to Effects Based Space Near Space as a Combat Space Effects Enabler written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is an outgrowth of comments I heard and attitudes I experienced at the JFCOM Joint Space Concept Development and Experimentation Workshop in Norfolk at the end of March 2004. I presented a briefing on near-space at the conference along with colleagues from JFCOM, the Army Space and Missile Defense Battlelab, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Navy Warfare Development Command. It discussed how many functions that are currently done with satellites could be performed for tactical and operational commanders using near-space assets much more cheaply and with much greater operational utility. The briefing was very well received with nothing but positive comments all around. However, once we broke into focus groups trying to develop exercise inputs for such subjects as operationally responsive space, the near-space concept was almost forgotten. It didn't fit into the normal mindset of what space meant, so it was difficult to convince other group members that it should be discussed in the same breath as, say, a TacSat-type program. After much thought, it was my perception that the problem was one of mindset as to what the word "space" meant to the warfighter. After reading space doctrine (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Joint), I discovered that the mindset I sensed at the workshop had actually been codified to define space as a place where we operate satellites. That mindset is counterproductive.
