Acquisition and Management Support
Abstract
The program funds efforts to meet the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA), as well as Congressional, SECDEF, and SECAF mandates to provide program management execution tools, systems integration and architectural analysis, information technology infrastructure development, and technical workforce management. Funding also provides the framework for Air Force business and acquisition transformation in developing capabilities-based architectures, re-engineering and enabling technologies, integrating robust systems engineering into early acquisition processes, acquisition process improvement analysis, and developing and managing a technical workforce with the expertise to uniformly implement OSD and Air Force engineering guidance and policies. These efforts provide stability in Air Force Acquisition by integrating major processes to reverse trends toward unpredictable program cost, schedule, and performance to facilitate quick response to urgent operational needs from across the entire spectrum of potential conflicts. These integrated capabilities will provide OSD and AF acquisition leadership insights needed to effectively manage a complex portfolio of acquisition programs through more timely and reliable access to authoritative acquisition data. In FY 2022, the Air Force is refocusing a number of science and technology concept explorations in artificial intelligence (AI) across command, control, communications, sensor, and intelligence areas within PE 0602788F, Dominant Information Sciences and Methods, and PE 0602204F, Aerospace Sensors, to improve and accelerate the delivery of artificial intelligence warfighting capabilities under the direction of both the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) and exercised through the Air Force Capability Development Council. The Air Force will now perform these science and technology concept explorations under this Program Element as the Air Force continues to respond to and reflect 1) the vision outlined for Artificial Intelligence in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, 2) expectations outlined by the February 2019 While House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence and the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Artificial Intelligence Strategy, 3) initiatives by other Armed Services to create AI-centric organizations, 4) Senior Air Force leadership goals to develop Artificial Intelligence applications for the United States Air Force in the near term, and 5) senior Department of Defense leadership objectives to enrich and strengthen the broader Air Force and Department Artificial Intelligence ecosystem to impact national security. This program is in Budget Activity 6, RDT&E Management Support because this budget activity includes research, development, test and evaluation efforts and funds to sustain and/or modernize the installations or operations required for general research, development, test and evaluation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 0702806F_6_3600_PB_2022
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY22 funding increased by $20.037 due to transfer of funding from PE 0602788F, Dominant Information Sciences and Methods, Project 625315, C4I Dominance Technology, and PE 0602204F, Aerospace Sensors, Project 622003 EO Sensors & Countermeasures Tech and Project 626095 Sensor Fusion Technology.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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