AF Chief Digital Transformation Officer Talks Acceleration

In February, Stuart Wagner, chief digital transformation officer, U.S. Air Force and Space Force, regaled webinar participants with an informative discussion about accelerating change across the Air Force and U.S. Defense Department. Acknowledging that the rate of digital change has to increase, he noted that first the Air Force (AF)/Defense Department have to embrace a telemetry strategy (used by all high-tech companies), which requires three steps: 1) Measure the rate of change of platform health and return on investment; 2) Find dependencies and points of failure; and 3) Leverage advance analytics and automation to accelerate. He then discussed the results of Bravo O, a new AF/Defense Department-wide "hackathon" experiment intended to kickstart AF/Defense Department innovation. It was and will continue to be used to overcome the challenges of insufficient resources and time to innovate and execute by gathering a number of teams for one-week periods to experiment with innovative ideas, test use case assumptions and deliver "quick and dirty" prototypes.

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