Download or read book A Framework for Modernization Within the United States Air Force written by Glenn A. Kent and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report lays out a framework for modernizing that the Air Force can use to develop new operational concepts in the context of joint-service requirements, to organize analyses for assessing capabilities, and to effectively advocate Air Force programs to "deciders' in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Congress. The work builds on earlier work on a strategies-to-tasks framework, concept development, and up-front planning.
Download or read book Business Systems Modernization written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Business Systems Modernization written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, GAO first designated the Department of Defense's (DOD) business systems modernization program as "high-risk" and continues to do so today. In 2004, Congress passed legislation reflecting prior GAO recommendations that DOD adopt a corporate approach to information technology (IT) business systems investment management including tiered accountability for business systems at the department and component levels. To support GAO's legislative mandate to review DOD's efforts, GAO assessed whether the investment management approach of one of DOD's components-the Department of the Air Force (Air Force)-is consistent with leading investment management best practices. In doing so, GAO applied its IT Investment Management (ITIM) framework and associated methodology, focusing on the stages related to the investment management provisions of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
Download or read book United States Air Force Force Structure Changes written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Appraisal of the USAF Technology Modernization Program written by Gregory J. S. Eskesen (MAJ, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Doctrinal Document 1 1 written by United States Air Force and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This document is THE Air Force statement of leadership principles and force development, enabled by education and training, providing a framework for action ensuring our Airmen can become effective leaders. Your personal leadership is the key to our Service's success in fulfilling its role in our system of national security." -- John P. Jumper, General, USAF Chief of Staff
Download or read book Shaping the Future Air Force written by David A. Shlapak and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how U.S national security strategy and the USAF might change to better confront new challenges presented by future major regional conflicts and counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and nation-assistance operations.
Download or read book Business Systems Modernization written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Service to the Nation written by John A. Shaud and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 12 September 2007, the Air University commander tasked the Air Force Research Institute to provide an “outside-the-beltway” look at what the United States Air Force (USAF) should be about in the future, specifically what the service should look like 10–15 years from now. This timeframe was far enough outside the Fiscal Year Defense Plan to avoid some current programmatic boundaries, but not so far out as to be immune to current trends. Additionally, constraining the “future” to 15 years limits the rather miraculous invention of extraordinary weapons found in some war games and other future studies—for example, rods from space—and similarly bounds the geo-political landscape. The goal of this study is to identify the enduring attributes of our nation's air, space, and cyberspace force in context of major transitions. The tasking construct identified that the study should avoid a focus on hardware and resourcing, and implied the focus should be on roles, missions, and functions “such as the transition from the Cold War to Long War—or whatever it is to be called—era.” Finally, the tasking identified the study's target audience as the presidential transition teams, with a delivery date “prior to the next election.” Strategy in the post–Cold War era remains fluid. Without a focus on a single foe, it is often complicated and debatable. This study attempts to neither reinvent the USAF nor protect the status quo at the expense of conventional wisdom. The intent is to understand the value of the service's contribution to national security and, where appropriate, offer considerations for change. This study is informed by an understanding of airpower history and a realization of current USAF systems and strategies. It is not meant to be all encompassing, but rather provides insight into the most pressing issues facing the USAF in the post–Cold War era. Binding the strategy together is a redefinition of Global Vigilance, Global Reach, and Global Power; not in a weapons systems–specific context, but rather as a framework through which the USAF serves the nation. An underlying assumption is that while major combat operations, also known as conventional campaigns, are the most dangerous to America's national interest, the conduct of irregular warfare (IW) is the most likely. Accordingly, beyond recasting Global Vigilance, Reach, and Power, the study focuses on how the USAF can contribute to winning the current fight, while simultaneously maintaining the technological superiority necessary for prevailing in the future fight. In relation to the current fight, this study discusses winning IW, air mobility, air-ground integration and the planning cycle, intelligence reform, the transformation of airpower thought—including integration of unmanned aerial systems, the Total Force, and air base disaster contingency planning. In maintaining USAF technological superiority, the study focuses on acquisition reform, nuclear surety and deterrence, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and bomber modernization, space defense in depth, and operationally responsive space and cyberspace operations.
Download or read book The Posture Triangle written by Stacie L. Pettyjohn and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They discuss factors that affect peacetime access risk, and they offer insights on sizing USAF overseas forces. The authors find that a global posture is necessary to maintain three critical U.S. security requirements: 0́−Strategic anchors0́+ are necessary to maintain security ties to close partners and key regions; access to forward operating locations is necessary to create and sustain operational effects; and support links on foreign territory are necessary to sustain global military activities. Regarding where the USAF needs access and basing, the authors identified 13 strategic anchor countries, 11 basing clusters, and 35 en route airfields as particularly valuable.
Download or read book Air Force Systems Command Industrial Modernization Incentives Program written by United States. Air Force. Systems Command and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Future USAF Fighter Forces Living Within the Constraints of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should U.S. Air Force fighter forces be structured and organized in the future? No one doubts that airpower will play a continuing vital role in future American defense planning. That role may, in fact, grow in importance as U.S. defense downsizing continues, as the global strategic environment evolves, and as technological and other developments present new operational opportunities. On the other hand, such capabilities are expensive to modernize and operate, so decision about fighter force size, mix, and other attributes are fraught with controversy-- and further declines in the defense budget could intensify debate over these forces. This report provides a framework for approaching systematically certain issues pertinent to a future fighter force roadmap. It presents alternative postures, based on force and mission planning themes, and it discusses selected issues associated with the operational, modernization, and other implications of those alternative. While the ultimate USAF fighter force may differ from the options presented here, the methodology offered nevertheless highlights key planning issues and has considerable value for that reason.
Download or read book DoD Digital Modernization Strategy written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global threat landscape is constantly evolving and remaining competitive and modernizing our digital environment for great power competition is imperative for the Department of Defense. We must act now to secure our future.This Digital Modernization Strategy is the cornerstone for advancing our digital environment to afford the Joint Force a competitive advantage in the modern battlespace.Our approach is simple. We will increase technological capabilities across the Department and strengthen overall adoption of enterprise systems to expand the competitive space in the digital arena. We will achieve this through four strategic initiatives: innovation for advantage, optimization, resilient cybersecurity, and cultivation of talent.The Digital Modernization Strategy provides a roadmap to support implementation of the National Defense Strategy lines of effort through the lens of cloud, artificial intelligence, command, control and communications and cybersecurity.This approach will enable increased lethality for the Joint warfighter, empower new partnerships that will drive mission success, and implement new reforms enacted to improve capabilities across the information enterprise.The strategy also highlights two important elements that will create an enduring and outcome driven strategy. First, it articulates an enterprise view of the future where more common foundational technology is delivered across the DoD Components. Secondly, the strategy calls for a Management System that drives outcomes through a metric driven approach, tied to new DoD CIO authorities granted by Congress for both technology budgets and standards.As we modernize our digital environment across the Department, we must recognize now more than ever the importance of collaboration with our industry and academic partners. I expect the senior leaders of our Department, the Services, and the Joint Warfighting community to take the intent and guidance in this strategy and drive implementation to achieve results in support of our mission to Defend the Nation.
Download or read book Research and Development in the United States Air Force written by United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Air Force Industrial Modernization Program written by Charles F. Downer and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Systemic View to Acquiring Innovation written by Orson S. Porter and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Air Force (USAF) is seeing a shift in global powers. In order to stay ahead of the new threat of near-peer advisories, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force established a plan, Accelerate Change or Lose. In this plan, General Charles Q. Brown asks USAF personnel to become innovative problem solvers. One way to bridge this gap is to use the small business innovative research (SBIR) program. Through this program, the USAF funds small businesses with innovative products, technologies, or services and then integrates them into current USAF systems. The USAF started Pitch Day in 2019 to rapidly fund and contract with innovative companies, with a goal to integrate their products, technologies, or services for end users within the USAF. Shortly afterwards the USAF created AFWERX to standardize process. Both USAF employees and private sector companies were interviewed in a semi-structured format. USAF employees over each of the processes were interviewed to fully understand the USAF's approach. Fifty-two companies were also interviewed and the semi-structured format allowed for open-ended questions and provided unfiltered responses. The information provided by the interviews was then analyzed and overarching themes were identified. The baseline processes are mapped, and the various inputs and outputs required by the USAF and the private sector companies are then added to the baseline process. Social behavior is also added to the process models, which creates a holistic view of the entire system. The social behaviors include both enablers and barriers and include both formal and informal processes. The models help explain how companies move through the entire AFWERX system from Phase 1 to Phase 3, explain how the contracting process works for each solicitation and contract, and explains the possible factors that can lead to the "Valley of Death." Within each of these different process flow models, feedback and balancing loops explain how informal requirements actually impact the formal requirements, both positively and negatively. The purpose of this thesis is to propose a new framework that can better enable the USAF and companies to understand the complexities of the government-to-industry innovation system.
