USAF digital campaign: think big, start small, scale fast

Christopher Garrett; Mark W. Kassan

doi:10.1117/12.2589706

12 April 2021 USAF digital campaign: think big, start small, scale fast

Christopher Garrett, Mark W. Kassan

Proceedings Volume 11753, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2021; 1175303 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2589706
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Industry has realized the benefit of better decision making, agility, and savings by embracing digital transformation. Seeing the realized benefits in industry, the United States Air Force decided to digitally transform to keep up with ever-increasing rates of technical performance advances to stay ahead of its adversaries. The Air Force is a large and complex organization with an acquisition system forged out of the World War II-era Defense Industrial Base with a Vietnam War era-budgeting and resource allocation system. Weapon system acquisition complexity continues to grow and the Air Force is turning to digital transformation to quicken the speed of delivering weapon system capability to the warfighter. The Air Force has created a Digital Campaign to tackle this digital transformation for its acquisition enterprise. This paper advocates a strategy of “think big, start small, and scale fast” for the acquisition enterprise to achieve this transformation and meet the needs of the warfighter.

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Christopher Garrett and Mark W. Kassan "USAF digital campaign: think big, start small, scale fast", Proc. SPIE 11753, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2021, 1175303 (12 April 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2589706

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