Changing Communication Dynamics

The June luncheon featured guest speaker Bill Marion, past chapter president and chief technical officer, headquarters Air Combat Command Communications and Information, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. Marion hit home the message of the changing dynamics by which we communicate in today's society and how there is an expectation of similar communication methods in the Defense Department/Air Force. He provided some interesting statistics, including the fact that more social media communications occur than email, and that Web surfers have proven to be 9 percent more productive at work. Previous communication mechanisms are evolving, and the Defense Department has to evolve as well, the speaker related. For example, instead of purchasing expensive hardware/software "bricks,” more applications, including within the Defense Department, are migrating onto relatively inexpensive mobile devices that can communicate and perform mission application processing and command display. Marion is departing Langley Air Force Base and is headed to Colorado to be the new chief technology officer for Air Force Space Command.

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