Enterprise Transformational Appld Research

Abstract

This program develops cross-enterprise transformational applied research efforts to accelerate the "pipeline” of technology-enabled capability candidates focused on the five strategic capabilities outlined in the Air Force Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy approved by the Secretary of the Air Force in April 2019. The five strategic capabilities as outlined in the Strategy are as follows: Global Persistent Awareness; Resilient Information Sharing; Rapid, Effective Decision-Making; Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass; and Speed and Reach of Disruption and Lethality. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will plan and manage these funds at the enterprise level to achieve the intent of the Strategy. In FY 2021, the Air Force created PE 0602020F, Future AF Capabilities Applied Research, Project 620200, Enterprise Transformational Applied Research, to consolidate the specific Future AF Capabilities Applied Research efforts/ activities from the following PEs and Projects: PE 0602201F, Aerospace Vehicle Technologies, Project 622403, Flight Controls and Pilot-Vehicle Interface; PE 0602202F, Human Effectiveness Applied Research, Project 625328, Human Dynamics Evaluation; PE 0602204F, Aerospace Sensors, Project 627622, RF Sensors and Countermeasures Tech; PE 0602602F, Conventional Munitions, Project 622068, Advanced Guidance Technology; and PE 0602788F, Dominant Information Sciences and Methods, Project 625315, C4I Dominance Technology, in order to better align with the Air Force Science and Technology Strategy, April 2019, and execute transformational Applied Research. This Program Element creation and realignment of funding from the existing Air Force RDT&E Applied Research PEs are administrative realignments and not a new start. These activities are managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Chief Technologist located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, at the Enterprise level, and executed across the various AFRL Technology Directorate locations. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver science & technology capabilities. The use of program funds in this program element would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0601102F, 0602102F, 0602201F, 0602202F, 0602203F, 0602204F, 0602602F, 0602605F, 0602788F, 1206601SF, and 0602298F. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research because this budget activity includes studies, investigations, and non-system specific technology efforts directed toward general military needs with a view toward developing and evaluating the feasibility and practicality of proposed solutions and determining their parameters.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 620200_0602020F_2_3600_PB_2021

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Space