Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy by Norman M. Haller

Author:Norman M. Haller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2013-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 2-2 A new operating model for prototyping in the Department of Defense. SOURCE: Earl Wyatt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rapid Fielding, “OSD Perspective,” presentation to the workshop on September 24, 2013. NOTE: CJCSI, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction; CWMD; counter weapons of mass destruction; D2D, data to decisions; ERS, engineered resilient systems; EW/EP, electronic warfare/electronic protection.

The themes of this workshop, which reflect the views of many participants, acknowledge prototyping as a powerful tool for the Air Force and DoD to use in complying with the above principle.

Another element of grand strategy came from Patricia Falcone, Associate Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. Her presentation referred to an action plan for the national security S&T enterprise. The plan, which offers a strategy for American innovation, involves people and the workforce, facilities and infrastructure, and roles and responsibilities.22,23 The DoD is a part of this plan in several contexts, such as developing breakthroughs in space capabilities and applications; innovation clusters for robotics, energy, light-weight materials, and cyber-security; and advanced learning technologies. She ended with a call for enhanced prototyping competency in the DoD. The first challenge was to expand the definition of prototyping to include software, integration, and other “soft power” elements. The other challenge to DoD was “Resources must be identified.”

Dr. Falcone’s final statement about resources was accompanied by the factual comment that, “Until 1998, the DoD budget included ‘6.3B’ for systems advanced development that supported rapid prototyping programs; this no longer exists.”24,25 Dr. Falcone’s factual comment and related discussions during the workshop suggested to many participants that returning to the past, a funded program element in S&T for prototyping, offers a way to enhance Air Force and DoD prototyping for the new defense strategy.

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