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I think this
is the air warfare symposium folks might
be interested in
if you have any ideas for the air domain
specifically
the fighter jet era has passed that is
it's just yeah fighter jet era has passed
okay so it's a struggles
well I you know ever ever since Star Wars
first debut this idea of being able to
fly with autonomy to support you
and cute little beeps and squeaks right
has just really caught the imagination
and it's time to make that real
and so I am excited about our R2D2
program which it's not what we call it
but that's what I refer to it
and I think the first thing that we'll
field in programs like SkyBorg where
we'll be teaming an autonomous
wingman with it with a manned platform
is when to when to trust the AI what
roles to put it in so it has the best
chance of having
a positive impact and when the human
needs to override and reset
we want to design a pilot that can deal
with an adversary that is
intentionally trying to mess with them
with the data that they're being shown
trying to thwart that convolutional
neural net in a
type of algorithmic warfare that has
never existed but will
on the future battlefield and then we
want to see
where does it break and where does it
not and
my expectation is this next generation
of pilot is not going to be ready to
hand the reins over completely to R2D2
but but neither will they be willing to
go into combat
without R2D2 if R2D2 is available and I
expect
just like pilots in the era of stealth
had to develop an
instinct for stealth for radar cross
sections even if they didn't understand
the fundamental physics they had to get
a sense
for it just as if it was inherent to
their body I expect
that the next generation of pilots will
have that instinct for AI
Good morning and welcome to a virtual AFA
I want to thank AFA for that great
introduction and thank
all of you for joining from the comfort
of your homes
you know COVID-19 has forced us to live
in an alternative universe
and so I thought a matrix inspired
briefing
might be a good idea to help us think
about how digital technology
can help us create an entirely new
reality for acquisition
one in which we are more competitive
against the adversaries
we face and against the trends that are
driving the world
now you've already heard from one
visionary
Elon Musk who's told us we need to
embrace
new things like drones to become the
kind
of great air force in the future that we
have been in the past
but let's hear from a second visionary
of commercial tech
Jeff Bezos who's built one of the most
successful companies in history
and hear how he thinks we need to
maintain
disruptive agility for a disruptive
world
well he clearly points out that even if
you're amazing at technology today
there's no guarantee
that your competitors won't copy what
made you great
and so he puts his finger on agility as
the delineator the thing that you have
to be good at
to be competitive long term and if you
look at the world in which we live today
we must be agile the air force and space
force
must be agile there are too many
possible futures for us to pick one
and build a force that's geared to
defeat it
whether it's artificial intelligence or
ubiquitous drones or something that
we really aren't prepared for like gene
editing and human augmentation there's
no telling what the future can hold and
so what we have to do
is follow Jeff Bezos's indication follow
Elon's advice
and make ourselves an agile force
so just like the movie the matrix this
boils down to a spoon bending choice
we can either change the way we do
business and be
agile we can remain rigid in our cold war
process and lose and with chief brown
and chief raymond telling the entire air
force and space force we
must accelerate change or lose we have
to do our part
in acquisition and that means fielding
war winning systems
as fast as today and tomorrow's
adversaries
and tech trends require the technology
is going to dominate
a lot of our discussion today and you
know I dearly love technology
but let's not forget what actually makes
agility happen
agility is created by people people that
are going to go after those conventions
and try to tear them down but
are mission focused that get the job
done no matter what it takes
and it's the culture that those people
create
that ultimately get the job done so we
can't make an org
chart our process for agility we have to
invest
in our people and the culture that we
have within the air force and space
force
and over the past months we have needed
our people
and their agility more than ever when
COVID-19 hit
there was no playbook for a pandemic in
the defense department
and if you didn't know this the
department of the air force had a
significant role to play not just
for the department but for the nation as
a whole
if you've heard of the defense
production act it's been in the news
it's the act that allows the defense
department to work with industry to
stand up
new product lines new supply chains well
we're the executive agent we're front
and center for the nation
on that act and so we had to stand up a
task force to mobilize just
as if we were going to war to do our
duty for the nation but also to fight
back
on the impact of COVID-19 on our
industry base
and our team supporting this task force
working this
night job did amazing things they
significantly increased the n95 supply
chain and production capacity for the
nation
and swabs and awarded ventilator
contracts dealing with over 3 700
industry proposals
we also ran the front door for fema and
the dod as a whole
a way for small businesses for
innovators to get their
ideas to us so that we could fight back
on the impact of COVID-19 as a whole and
the amazing thing
is that everyone did this working
remotely
while we were having to innovate and be
agile with how we do business
we had to do more business than ever
before
and so for everyone that supported this
task force I just want to thank
you personally and we're not done covet
19
is not out of sight so we're still going
to be here
and I want to especially thank the kc 46
rvs 2.0 team it's a great thing
to know that when you were put under
pressure you can do things that are more
than just
surviving you can thrive and after
going back and forth on this program
that has been
in the spotlight for so many years we
finally were able
to seal a deal that puts it on a bright
trajectory
and a bright future it's amazing that
under this difficult time
we now have a path to get autonomy onto
this tanker
two tankers earlier than our road map
that shows you the level of creativity
and agility that
you can achieve when you have to have it
but it wasn't just coveted 19 responses
where we excelled
we kept our day jobs too so many
programs continued to innovate and push
the envelope even while working remotely
or
having to stagger work shifts going into
the office for classified work
and this slide alone says amazing things
happened
just over the past few months we awarded
the second
space launch contract gbsd hit its
milestone b
successful hypersonic flight test the
collier trophy for the x-37b
amazing work by afworks and ath ventures
kobayashi meru ocx
afrl with the quantum accelerator and so
many others
this is just meant to tell you to tell
you the air force and space force
that your acquisition team is becoming
that agile company that jeff bezos said
is so important so as we look ahead
being reactively agile
is good we have to be able to deal with
the unknown we're a military we must go
to war during uncertain times and during
COVID-19 we were ready to go to war
on any given day no major shutdowns
no major breakups the readiness of our
military
was never in doubt and never impeded
but if we're going to compete long term
then we've got to do more than just
react we have to proact we have to be
ahead of trends that we know
will impact and change the world now I
know you're accustomed to me having a
few hashtags to drop during my briefs
and this year is no exception
so I want to highlight three areas
that we have to be proactively agile we
have to seed the battlefield
in these areas because these areas have
the potential to not just
change our lives not just change the
military
but change the world so we can't sit
back
and wait for the next lightning bolt the
next unicorn the next disrupter
we have to be that lightning bolt we
have to be that unicorn that disrupter
and it all starts by broadening our
aperture
about how big our tech ecosystem really
is
we have to become a commercial air force
and space force
a credible partner in innovation
wherever we find it
so there are so many examples of the air
force and space force
becoming an innovator in commercial tech
I could spend a whole briefing
just on this but let me highlight just a
few to give you an example of how far
we've come
just one short AFA ago I walked you
through how we were standing up
a new investment arm called athventures
that was starting to co-invest with
private investors and that we were
leading up to the world's largest single
day tech startup event well we pulled
that event off
during COVID-19 virtually awarding
almost 800 million dollars in awards to
amazing companies
who have the aspirations to change the
world and on their way to doing it
being able to change the air force well
since that time
we've consolidated af ventures the
agility prime
flying car program which is just another
example of
us being on the front lines of the
innovation battlefield wherever it is
and you can see our
chief of staff of the air force chief
brown ready to fly to work if we let him
we need to be where innovators are well
we have grown
from bringing a billion dollars of
private investment
to over three in less than a year and
our trend
says this is going to continue to grow
and grow
no matter who you are in the air force
if you're an
operator a tester a maintainer an
acquirer
anyone then you have an imperative to
stay up with commercial tech
and use afworks as our investment arm to
bring
technology innovators to your mission
arms are wide open
and sky or space are the limits
it's not just been an aircraft type
innovation though flying cars are
certainly cool and awesome
and an example of us ensuring that if
new things are going to happen in the
world that they happen on our watch
and with our help but we also saw
amazing commercial innovation in space
and this one folks has been long in the
making
so a program having to successfully
navigate
tech maturation and operational
constraints is daunting enough
but our space launch program had to
stand up a domestic space launch
enterprise capable of meeting our needs
in the military
but also commercial domestic ones and we
are finally across that goal line folks
having
awarded the next five years of not just
launch for the military launch for the
military the intelligence community
and an industrial base that we helped
build
that's capable of launching satellites
for the nation commercial or
military amazing example of us seeing
that the future has to be dual use
working on both sides of the aisle not
just building military unique systems
like the cold war
and if you think that innovation is only
relegated to things like airplanes and
satellites no there's amazing innovation
amazing commercial innovation in our
nuclear enterprise
so the ground-based strategic deterrent
program just got to award its
engineering phase so congratulations
team
what an amazing accomplishment but what
you may not know
sitting at home is that some of the
world's leading software technology
is coming to bear in this program in a
nuclear program that is a
must succeed program so kubernetes or
containerization is an open source
technology trend that is just going
viral right now and it solves a critical
problem for us
so I'm sure you know that when we
develop software
it's usually in something like a laptop
or a server some place where a lot of
people in
t-shirts or hoodies like kessel run or
kobayashi maru or level up or space camp
or
any of the software factories that have
been so
successful over the last two years and
the one that I'm showing here in this
slide
an example of ski camp that's just stood
up out at hill air force
base to support gbsd well we are
bringing this latest technology that
solves an amazing problem
how to get from those laptops and
servers
out to the edge now you can understand
why that would be so important
for internet technology get from the
cloud
out to your device but the same
technology helps us get from the cloud
out to our missile or our airplane or
our satellite
following this commercial trend so we
don't
have to create it ourselves just another
amazing example
of us broadening our aperture and
becoming a commercial first
service because if we don't we face
another
bending dilemma folks right now the
defense department is only
20 percent of our nation's r d
that's a complete 180 flip from the cold
war
where we were 80 percent but that
doesn't mean that we've gotten bad at
technology just means technology's
changed it's ubiquitous and volatile
like jeff bezos mentioned
and so with technology being cheap and
ubiquitous it's everywhere and
all the time and in so many different
areas so if all we do is
think about the next generation in terms
of what we can do
with defense unique companies then we're
putting ourselves in a one-fifth slice
of the pie
and that's not a big enough ecosystem to
win now is it going to challenge
the way that we design systems build
systems certify
do acquisition do testing do everything
of course it will
it's the reason why we have
organizations like afworks it's the
reason that we are encouraging programs
to
push the envelope we have to have our
envelopes pushed
even burned because if we can't work in
our
entire tech ecosystem we will lose to
adversaries that can tap
all of theirs so air force and space
force this is a spoon bending dilemma
that we have got to get right well let's
say we get this right
so we become an amazing commercial
innovator
we are the tech champion of choice and
that actually is
is fairly true right now if you look
across our investments last year we
brought over
3.6 private dollars to every dollar
we intentionally invested in the air
force towards commercial aims that's an
amazing return on investment quadrupled
your money
so congratulations but it's not enough
you can work in that broad tech
ecosystem
but if we don't build a force that looks
like the ecosystem
there's no place to plug into we've been
talking about plug and play
in the military since I first got into
defense
and the thing we ran past was the plug
we jumped directly to play
it's the more fun part to discuss but to
get
plug right you've got to go to a level
of technology the defense department
has historically sucked at so just as a
cute example if you're sitting at home
you could ask alexa how do I agilely
connect the force and
I did this before coming to shoot this
video and she's not going to give you a
satisfactory answer
but the amazing thing is the fact that
we can even ask the question
is also its answer if we want to agilely
connect the joint force
then we have to do what makes alexa work
this amazing system of systems that goes
from an
edge device that has its own local
sensing and processing that you
interface with
connected to an entire internet an
entire cloud
and data and analytic backbone that
allows that local device to be
so much more than a phone it's touching
the entire world of data well you know
the talk here we put lightning bolts on
powerpoint slides they're not real they
don't actually
connect anything and so the answer to
how do we connect
the joint force agilely is we have to
build the internet
for the military and last AFA I said we
had a huge challenge we were a military
where almost nothing was connected where
people went home where they were
connected to almost everything
we have a long way to go but we've made
amazing progress
in the advanced battle management
programs which is our internet
of military things so I'm going to go
back through this I think this
is so important it is worth taking a
moment
to explain how it works the things
I think we're all familiar with this is
what we take pictures of this is what we
have
budget line items associated with this
is really what we think of when we think
of our military
now what we've been doing with the
advanced battle management system
is putting in everything that's between
them
that we have in the internet but we've
been missing within the joint force
the connectivity that's flexible that
can
hop between different frequency bands or
different communication waveforms
so that an adversary can't take away the
one and only one
one and only communication mechanism
that might be available at that time
it's too fragile a thread to take into
the battlefield
and why do we connect things device to
device when everything connects
that way and to the cloud as well and
the cloud connection is the most
important because that's where the world
of data lives that's where AI and
analytics live
that's what allows that device that
allows you to connect with alexa to
connect
with the world and we have not had it so
simply putting in
global and local cloud connectivity to
it
securing our data there and building
artificial intelligence in it
does what works so well in our private
lives it builds an internet
of military things where the data is not
what cat video is the latest that's
trending
but might be the threat that's about to
take you out on the battlefield
and I know this gets a little abstract
we have funny names for these programs
cloud one platform one
terms like kubernetes and
containerization and you may be sitting
there thinking I don't really understand
what this means
well here's all you've got to take away
if a program has
one at the end of the name even if you
don't understand the tech
it's all about making the joint force
act as if it's
one system of systems just like the
internet
and if names and graphics don't really
motivate you let's
talk specifics so once you have an
internet of things that can
fight at machine speeds what can you do
with it
and this problem for me folks is
personal this takes me back to 2012 when
I first came in
to the defense department working for
secretary ash carter
one of the very first things that I told
him is that
base defense whether you can do it or
not is one of the most important
problems that you can solve in the
defense department one of the most
important
for our deterrent and warfighting
posture
but at the time this was before machine
learning and the AI
advent within the pentagon this was a
wicked hard
problem well now a few years later
the wicked hard problem can be solved
fairly straightforward
by technology that empowers your
personal lives
and so in the second on-ramp event that
we just did a few days ago on the 3rd
of september we connected multiple
sensors together that were
feeding different views of a real
simulated attack
on the homeland on a homeland base real
crude missile surrogates flying
we tracked them with multiple sensors we
connected those tracks to a variety of
different
outlets people and analytics and AI and
operators through connectivity that we
have in the military like link 16
but we also use new things like 4g and
5g connectivity
it's the wave of the future but that
connectivity wasn't
just happening device to device it was
all happening
inside the cloud both globally and out
at the edge
and the fiesta resistance was passing
all of that
cloud-based AI enabled data
into one kill chain that a human could
understand quickly
and give the command to do something
I've been waiting to see
for seven years which is seeing a hyper
velocity gun
which has the speed and price point
to be able to do base defense take on a
cruise missile surrogate
in the real world and with no further
ado
let's show you the gun and let's show
you the video
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four three two
now if that doesn't get you excited in
the morning I don't know what will
so congratulations to the abms team
and the strategic capabilities office
for bringing hyper velocity guns
together with hypervelocity decision
making and mark september the 3rd
2020 on your calendar that might be the
watershed moment we've been waiting for
where you get to see the actual internet
the military's internet of things
come to bear on a problem that could not
be solved without machine to machine
decision making
as I think about the future battlefield
and watch the technologies that could
aid it
the one I fear the most is the machine
to machine decision making
because I don't know I don't know what
the ramifications will be
it's fast it's quick but it has
vulnerabilities and susceptibilities
that people don't
but when a technology could be that
disruptive we
simply can't be behind its power curve
it's too important for us not to bet on
it
so the spoon-bending dilemma that
connectivity creates
is do we want to operate at machine
speed and unlock
all that internet technology can give
our war fighters
or do we want to risk continuing to
operate
at human speeds and I'll tell you what
folks the only thing
I can think of that would be worse than
fighting AI
is fighting without it you know we've
always been able in the air force
and now space force to end debates on
emerging technology by saying
but we have the human advantage no
matter what it is
we will be able to adopt it adapt it
and use it faster than our opponents
but now for the first time in history
there's a technology
that could undermine human advantage
itself
and it is too big of a deal with the
pace of machine learning as
fast as it is for us to not get
this spoon bending dilemma right
so air force and space force this is one
for our radar screens
so let's say we get that right we have
become an amazing commercial investor
so you know hashtag commercial air force
let's say we have gotten connectivity
right so we're a hashtag
connected air force in space force well
that's still
not enough it'd be great to have a lot
of commercial technology coming in
and it'd be great to be connected like
the internet
but we are still a military that has to
build unique things
as much as I admire companies like
amazon and
and elon spacex and tesla I know I can't
go
to amazon prime and order a hypersonic
weapon or a stealth bomber but I'll
see if jeff bezos is going to try to
change that anytime soon we have to
build things
that are unique to the military and the
more amazing commercial technology
becomes
the more amazing our military technology
is going to have to be
to overcome the advantages that are
available to all we have to remind
ourselves commercial technology
is not going to give us any kind of
exclusive battlefield advantage
simply going to be available to everyone
and so
the last area that we have to have
strategic agility
is in being able to computerize or
virtualize
everything about our development and
production
assembly even sustainment of systems
so that we can finally get past the
tyranny of the real world
and take learning and feedback into the
digital one
so if we were to do one of those funny
ask
alexa a question again so like so how do
I maintain an agile force
if 70 of my program funding is trapped
in sustainment
you can probably guess that's a trick
question
you can't right now 70
of every dollar we spend is trapped in a
part of acquisition where we have we
have
yeoman airmen and space professionals
that
keep legacy systems operating but it
consumes our budget
it is such a big force that it limits
our ability to create new and dominant
things and we have been
stuck here since the cold war
now I know acquisition is is foreign to
a lot of folks and I don't like the term
at
all this is just a technology company
we're running in the air force and space
force
but it's a unique technology company
that obeys different rules than the
private sector
and one rule that we are currently
obeying
is this vicious circle that we have been
trapped in especially
in aircraft procurement since the since
the late 70s
now it basically starts at the the top
right
where we don't compete things very often
right it's
it's unusual for us to start a new
program
for a fighter or a bomber or even a
major weapon or a satellite
and once that's common then this vicious
circle happens behind it
when the programs are so few and far
between they become
must-win events for industry so they buy
into them they put
so much of their own money on the table
so that they can win
many cases it's existential that they do
well once they put their own money on
the table they have to get it back
they've lost money in the upfront design
and production so they have to get it
back
in sustainment the long-term upkeep of
programs so we get
sustainment-dominated business cases
which of course
force industry to lock into sustainment
so that they can recoup
their own investment and we end up doing
modernization
sole source with those vendors tail
chasing threats
and the cycle continues we will not
compete against nations like china and
russia if we are
trapped in this vicious circle we have
to find a way to
break it and create a new circle where
most of our
work is in design and production
building
a cutting-edge military that can deal
agilely
with all the forces that could come to
bear on the battlefield
well this is an area where we should be
super excited because technologies are
crossing into defense from commercial
industry that have a chance to take on
the ground assumption that this circle
is based on
that design and production take a long
time
and are really expensive and you have to
have a lot of people to do them
and in today's world that's simply not
true
now if you don't own a tesla or don't
really follow technology you probably
know
something is different about the way
companies like tesla
design and assemble their cars and that
it's highly
highly digital you may have even heard
terms like digital twin and digital
thread
and it's not important for this talk
that you understand them
the thing that I want you to understand
is that industry
transcended building blueprints
or computer models that were good
approximations for the physical system
but not the same as the real thing
companies have made
their digital systems in as many in many
respects
more real than the physical thing they
build
because their digital system is living
breathing all the time always being
redesigned
optimized tested digitally
the power of this is very much like the
movie the matrix that you could have a
reality that's so real
that you can learn there and then when
you wake up
in the real world that learning comes
with you
the same thing is true with digital
engineering
so maybe you'll buy this on consumer
products like a car you're going to buy
to drive around your neighborhood but
clearly not a technology we can bring
into a high performance endeavor
well that's actually a case where it
gets even more amazing
so efforts like formula one
racing have taken the idea of digital
engineering to a
radical extreme that should inspire us
to follow
so today in formula one racing there are
no prototypes anymore if you've heard
that acquisition adage fly before you
buy which sounds like good common sense
it's not true anymore in formula one
they e-create
before they aviate they do everything
in the digital environment representing
subsystems
the physics of their car the driver
interface which you can see here
even the tires and its tread and how
they wear
and heat on the road are modeled
perfectly
and after they've designed hundreds or
thousands of
cars optimizing between the driver and
the engineering team
they build the one physical car and it
hits the tracks
two weeks later and that physical car
continues
being connected in this feedback loop
with its digital twin
and they get better together every time
a simulation is run
or every time a driver takes a lap
around the track
it's an inspiring inspiring example
because if we can take things we once
did in the physical world
having to design things build things
integrate things where we spend
lots of money with lots of people if
they can go digital
then we can design and build all the
time
and when it's time to go build that
physical system
we can be as confident as a formula one
team
and if you're thinking well maybe a
ground vehicle like a race car maybe
that's okay but hey will
we're an air force and a space force we
work in some of the most
hostile environments of all and if our
systems don't work
they fall out of the sky or fall out of
space
well you've heard the secretary's
announcement
of a new series of systems within the
air force and space force the e-system
so
think of it like the e-equivalent of
your e-book or e-mail
this is an e-airplane an e-satellite an
e-weapon
and it's so much more than just simply
being a digital rendering
of something we're going to build
physically this is a system that
contains
everything you need to know about the
real system that will ultimately
be used on the battlefield or in the
case of t7
be used to train operators who will go
on to that battlefield
so the performance of t7 is amazing
the ability to build an airplane the
first time
as if you have already built a hundred
is game-changing air force in space
force
if that doesn't seem like it opens up a
paradigm I promise you
it does learning curve is dead
integration is dead flying before you
buy
is dead if we choose it to be
but you might be thinking well a trainer
a trainer is one thing right
you know yes I understand that you can
digitize it I understand that you can
have a
model that is one-to-one perfectly
recreates the way the physical system is
going to be built
I understand you can use that model to
not just learn to design the system but
to assemble it even sustain it
before the physical system's ever built
I get that
but if you're sitting there and thinking
well well I'm on the
I get that digital is important I'm on
the fence about whether this e-series
thing
is actually legitimate I mean are these
really real systems
when they don't go to war well trainers
don't go to war either
but we consider them exceptionally
valuable
maybe the most valuable thing that we
build because they teach our operators
who go to war you know their output is
that operator
learning but of course with a physical
trainer it's at real world speeds
so just think of an e-system as creating
war-winning learning
for everyone this is an entire digital
reality like the matrix so
there's a model for operators a model
for engineers for assemblers even AI
can train in this digital environment
so an e-system is simply a digital
enterprise-wide trainer
that operates at machine speeds
so I hope I've piqued your interest as
to what digital
engineering can do and maybe even
convinced you
that an e-series really is something
that is just as real as a physical
system would be in past but
you might be thinking a trainer or a
replacement for a current system
like the minuteman 3 might be more
amenable and it's going to be
some time before the air force and space
force can take on new
next generational systems like
satellites and
cutting-edge weapons well I'm here to
tell you that within the space force
we're
already working on the first two esats
hoping to bring this technology into
space
and next generation air dominance our
successor to the amazing inventory that
we have today
is doing something even more radical
taking on
that vicious circle itself trying to
speed up
the cycle at which we design things by
buying
iteratively improving spiraling aircraft
in a digital century series or e-series
approach
it's inspiring because it's the
automotive
or formula one example crossing into
defense
and giving us power and agility we never
had before
so ingab right now is designing
assembling
testing in the digital world exploring
things that would have cost us time and
money
to wait for physical world results but
if
if you think that we don't care about
physical world results we do
in fact ngat has come so far that the
full-scale flight demonstrator has
already flown in the physical world
it's broken a lot of records in the
doing
digital engineering isn't a fluke it's
not a point
it's a trend it is our future and I'm
excited to see
where this trend goes and hopefully see
it in that vicious circle
that we have been trapped in for so long
so the spoon bending dilemma we face
here
is we can choose to be fully digital
or we're done digital engineering
is the magic that acquisition has been
waiting for
just like the movie the matrix
superhuman
superhero powers are awaiting us
if we can just free our minds from rigid
analog
thinking but with this trend going so
fast through commercial industry our
challenge
is keeping up and applying it to
tomorrow's military systems
that our war fighters will need so air
force and space force
digital is the new battlefield wars will
be
won and lost based on how well we
digitally design
so let's make sure that our victories
are won digitally first
so that they're one decidedly after
so if you've followed my thread here
air and space force you've done amazing
you have made trends go viral that will
help us
become competitive long term if we keep
it up
I could not be prouder of you nor more
honored to be part of this team
so we have had a hashtag trend of being
a commercial partner of choice
working in our full tech ecosystem and
we've got to keep that up
we are not working across the full
innovation landscape that our nation
brings to bear
so good progress but let's make the
hashtag continue to trend
and with connectivity we are becoming a
connected air force
we are becoming an internet of things
enabled military
where AI isn't something that's
aspirational it is
part and parcel of how we do business
and win wars
but we can't take our foot off the
accelerator we have just gotten into
this ball game
we don't want to face an AI enabled
adversary
when we're still making decisions at
human speeds
and finally with this hashtag digital
trend
this is the new new this is the thing
we've been looking for that would not
just let us be agile
with things like software but that would
bring in
hardware connectivity everything
that we need to dominate so these three
trends are important
but don't think they're the end these
are not the only spoons we're
going to have to bend to be able to
compete
and win long term they are simply the
ones
we bend today on our watch to set the
air force
and space force up for whatever comes
hereafter
so the question I have for all of you is
what spoon are you holding and why is it
holding you back
this is what defense acquisition has
been waiting
for a new paradigm a digital one that
can wake up to a new reality
for taxpayers and war fighters alike
its spoon bending possibilities await us
it's time to wake up and win
you