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When You're out of Money, You Have to Think When you’re out of money, you have to think. USAF photo by Liz Copan resources are so ing demands on the Air Force require. would make personnel a higher priority thinly spread that only a Innovation and streamlined acquisition than the F-35, KC-46, and B-21, the campaign of innovation practices will have to become the norm. three modernization programs she has at every level will get the “The path we’re on won’t get us there,” held up as existential to USAF’s future. service through the chal- he said. The service also finds itself in a lenging years ahead, said The conference was held a week “battle for talent,” characterized by service, industry, and Pen- before the end of Fiscal 2016, just James as a competition for “recruiting tagon leaders at AFA’s Air, Space & before Congress passed a continuing and retaining the best.” To be more Cyber Conference, held in September resolution rather than a full-up defense competitive, she said the Air Force at National Harbor, Md. authorization bill, and Air Force Sec- will renew its efforts to achieve greater One of the keys to continuing to retary Deborah Lee James detailed the diversity and tap the full talent pool. provide more mission with fewer assets many hits the USAF budget will take James promised to soon roll out a is to ask the right questions. These are as a consequence. These mainly affect “second diversity and inclusion initia- about capabilities—not necessarily the new starts and programs about to go tive” to reach USAF manpower goals. platforms that provide those capabilities, to higher production rates, such as the Another area of innovation will Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford F-35 fighter and KC-46 tanker. have to be in professional military Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, education. said in his keynote address. CORRECTING THE BALANCE “I don’t fear budget constraints,” The question is not “how do we buy James said, though, that as much allowed Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast, com- more Predators?” but “how do we make as the Air Force must keep up with mander and president of Air University decisions and get the information we modernization, she’s put a priority at Maxwell AFB, Ala. “If we’re clever need?” said Dunford. on increasing the number of people in enough problem-solvers, $6 billion Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David the service, correcting an imbalance should be enough” to train the force L. Goldfein observed that if the need she acknowledged she played a role to modern standards. He also called is for a particular kind of intelligence, in creating. out diversity as a crucial element in “I don’t care” what platform delivers The “historic downsizing” of the last delivering relevant training. it. By not defining the answers, he 20 years has resulted in the smallest At Air University, he said, civilians, said, airmen will be free to deliver the Air Force ever, James said, explaining foreign exchange students, and cross- solutions to capacity problems in ways that while the personnel cuts “made service personnel train together with leaders didn’t expect. sense on paper” they have severely airmen, who make up only 48 percent Dunford warned that anticipated hurt readiness, especially at a time of of students. This variety of perspec- budgets won’t provide enough money steadily increasing operations tempo. tives will help airmen avoid building to buy the expanded capability that ris- In a press conference, she said she “a blind spot that brings you down.” 60 NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 H WWW.AIRFORCEMAG.COM USAF photo by TSgt. Joshua Strang Photo by Brittany Palmer S. Callicutt, director of capability and resource integration at US Strategic Command. The same is true for the development of autonomous vertical lift systems, where the military has shown “too much conservatism,” according By Wilson Brissett, Senior Editor to Patrick Donnelly, program director, rotary wing, at Boeing Phantom Works. Photo by Brittany Palmer In a niche where “it’s a risk for in- Far left: Cadets at Field Day at the Air dustry to invest,” Donnelly continued, Force Academy in Colorado Springs, “we need a quicker acquisitions cycle” Colo., in 2015. Left: Air Force Chief of Staff to meet the current technical challenges Gen. David Goldfein speaks at AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Above: The and to make sure companies are re- combined air operations center at al Udeid warded financially for their investment. AB, Qatar. The CAOC provides command and control for air operations over Iraq, The difficulty in attracting new tal- Syria, Afghanistan, and other nations in ent—both individuals and companies— the Middle East. Above right: Marine Corps might be generational. “Would you Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a keynote expect to see a millennial at the opera?” address at AFA’s conference in September. asked Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, com- mander of Air Force Materiel Command. Kwast said innovation and economiz- and government leaders must entice “We have to reach out to the forums they ing go hand in hand. It’s about “taking a nontraditional vendors to participate in go to, which may put some of us out of $10 problem, solving it for 10 cents, and national defense. The Pentagon will have our comfort zone.” making your enemy solve it for $100.” to emulate and embrace the high-risk, Others aren’t convinced the gap is so Following this mind-set, he said, will high-reward mind-set of technology wide. In the area of space programs, the help the Air Force leave behind “the start-ups, he said. Air Force already has a “strong cultural industrial age of education” because tradition of innovation,” insisted Win- it’s “not suited to a complex world.” RISKING EARLY FAILURE ston A. Beauchamp, deputy undersec- Following on this thought, Goldfein The defense acquisition environment retary of the Air Force for space. said it’s time to “move into the informa- is where “start-ups don’t find them- Goldfein agreed. In addressing the tion age of warfare.” He’ll take solutions selves comfortable,” Selva said, given fundamental challenge of developing a from anywhere, he said, and will start the risk-averse mind-set of the defense command and control system capable by listening carefully to all ideas, espe- enterprise. These companies are on of competing in the “networked ap- cially when “we don’t have money and the cutting edge, but either don’t know proach to the warfare of the future,” manpower to throw at the situation.” about defense work or are leery of doing the Air Force doesn’t need to start from Goldfein said he is looking at revital- business with DOD, which tends to be scratch, he said. Instead, he pointed to izing the squadron as the heart of the overly prescriptive on how to develop his own experience in the combined air Air Force organizational chart, and he new systems. operations center, where a multinational encouraged his commanders to cultivate “Reinventing ourselves around the team has coordinated intelligence, sur- new ideas from the bottom of the chain kinds of technologies that make us veillance, and reconnaissance for global of command. successful,” Selva went on, requires a counterterrorism operations since 2003. The accelerating pace of technologi- willingness to “risk failure early” in the The CAOC is a space where innova- cal advance requires intense innovation process. Risk aversion has hampered tion meets modernization, Goldfein in acquisition and development technol- development of a next generation of said, and creative problem-solving ogy, too. Joint chiefs vice chairman Gen. remotely piloted aircraft that could meets complex challenges on a tight Paul J. Selva said that means seeking operate in the anti-access, area-denial budget. innovation in places where the defense environments being created by China “Innovation is in our blood,” Gold- enterprise has not usually looked before. and Russia, he said. fein asserted, saying he is sure air- Though the armed services pioneered To meet these challenges, USAF men will deliver needed capability if technologies in the past, now it is must evolve, taking on “more risk to leadership gets out of their way and commercial industry leading the way, speed up acquisitions,” said Kenneth lets them do it. J NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 H WWW.AIRFORCEMAG.COM 61.
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