WEBVTT 00:00.245 --> 00:01.949 - [Host] Please welcome to the stage. 00:01.949 --> 00:05.673 AFA's President, Lieutenant General Orville Wright. 00:06.833 --> 00:09.583 (dramatic music) 00:20.719 --> 00:22.420 - Well good morning. 00:22.420 --> 00:23.940 That's not a great way to start the morning, 00:23.940 --> 00:25.710 I don't know what is. 00:25.710 --> 00:26.793 God bless our Airmen. 00:27.960 --> 00:30.590 Well this morning we have the opportunity to welcome back 00:30.590 --> 00:33.423 to the stage a real rock star of our Air Force. 00:34.870 --> 00:37.100 I'd like to encourage everyone here today, 00:37.100 --> 00:39.624 also please stop by your AFA booth 00:39.624 --> 00:41.400 to support our Airmen and families. 00:41.400 --> 00:42.290 And if you're not a member 00:42.290 --> 00:44.432 this is a good opportunity to do that 00:44.432 --> 00:46.470 Join up and join the fight. 00:46.470 --> 00:49.040 Membership is half off during this symposium 00:49.040 --> 00:52.620 and please we could use your help 00:52.620 --> 00:55.000 and we could certainly use your leadership. 00:55.000 --> 00:56.710 Without further ado please welcome 00:56.710 --> 00:58.870 to the stage Dr. Will Roper. 00:58.870 --> 01:00.720 Since Dr. Roper wasn't here yesterday 01:00.720 --> 01:03.310 because he had to testify before congress, 01:03.310 --> 01:07.020 he may not be aware of gift for speakers this year. 01:07.020 --> 01:10.380 But believe me the crazy socks deal starting last fall 01:10.380 --> 01:14.770 and leading, and going on today is all Dr. Roper's idea. 01:14.770 --> 01:15.880 So thank you sir for being here 01:15.880 --> 01:17.926 and thanks for your leadership. 01:17.926 --> 01:19.876 (crowd applauds) 01:19.876 --> 01:22.626 (dramatic music) 01:27.510 --> 01:28.343 - Good morning. 01:29.390 --> 01:32.700 I'll tell you, my caffeine is just staring to kick in. 01:32.700 --> 01:36.470 So hopefully, hopefully the enthusiasm that I have 01:36.470 --> 01:38.897 for what's being accomplished in the Air Force 01:38.897 --> 01:43.410 and Space Force will rev me up and hopefully rev you up. 01:43.410 --> 01:47.010 It is amazing to see what is happening out in 01:47.010 --> 01:50.470 the field in the Air Force to start making our system, 01:50.470 --> 01:54.170 that goes from requirements, to things that we build, 01:54.170 --> 01:56.030 to things that we field and operate. 01:56.030 --> 01:59.560 To make that faster and more competitive. 01:59.560 --> 02:02.310 Given that we have competitors like China and Russia, 02:02.310 --> 02:04.380 that are fundamentally going to change 02:04.380 --> 02:07.850 the speed and quality at which our system moves. 02:07.850 --> 02:09.780 That is the mission for today. 02:09.780 --> 02:12.570 Is to leave you with the sense of the excitement 02:12.570 --> 02:14.170 of what is possible. 02:14.170 --> 02:16.973 But with the urgency for why we have to continue the 02:16.973 --> 02:20.121 progress towards building a better system 02:20.121 --> 02:22.510 with better quality war fighting. 02:22.510 --> 02:26.313 That is competitive in today's technology environment. 02:27.460 --> 02:30.810 I think I'll just say, if I don't hit the point that this 02:30.810 --> 02:34.663 entire strategy, the entire theory of trying to be the 02:34.663 --> 02:39.520 disrupter is based on having tremendous quality of people. 02:39.520 --> 02:41.930 People who are trained, who understand technology. 02:41.930 --> 02:43.500 Who understand engineering. 02:43.500 --> 02:45.770 War fighters who are tech savvy. 02:45.770 --> 02:48.060 Who realize that we're gonna have to change the way 02:48.060 --> 02:50.370 that we bring capabilities to the field. 02:50.370 --> 02:52.720 And that the old systems gonna have to update. 02:52.720 --> 02:54.510 If we didn't have that talent in the 02:54.510 --> 02:55.447 department of the Air Force 02:55.447 --> 02:57.770 and the Air Force and Space Force. 02:57.770 --> 03:01.050 Then everything else I'm about to say is untrue. 03:01.050 --> 03:03.500 The fact that the talent is here, 03:03.500 --> 03:05.650 means that the core principle is 03:05.650 --> 03:07.950 fundamentally unleashing it. 03:07.950 --> 03:10.720 And seeing if we can do innovation at scale. 03:10.720 --> 03:12.463 Innovation everywhere. 03:13.320 --> 03:15.873 I put the adversaries at first. 03:18.350 --> 03:20.540 Because that's why we have to do it. 03:20.540 --> 03:24.030 So China and Russia are going to challenge our system. 03:24.030 --> 03:25.530 They are innovating everywhere, 03:25.530 --> 03:27.610 not just in the military space. 03:27.610 --> 03:29.170 Domestically, commercially. 03:29.170 --> 03:30.410 And there's no telling where 03:30.410 --> 03:32.260 the next breakthrough's gonna be. 03:32.260 --> 03:35.330 I show a picture here of the AI advantage they have. 03:35.330 --> 03:37.348 Collecting facial recognition information 03:37.348 --> 03:39.140 across their population. 03:39.140 --> 03:41.270 Who knows what advantage that's gonna give. 03:41.270 --> 03:42.860 Too early to tell. 03:42.860 --> 03:47.010 But we can't sit by idly and hope it's going to be okay. 03:47.010 --> 03:49.690 I had a picture of a DJI Phantom up there. 03:49.690 --> 03:51.840 Right, commercial hobbyist drones, 03:51.840 --> 03:53.859 remember when that was the coolest 03:53.859 --> 03:56.019 Christmas gift everyone wanted. 03:56.019 --> 03:58.140 What's happened? 03:58.140 --> 04:02.680 Supply chain has moved nearly entirely to China. 04:02.680 --> 04:05.872 And now we have to react to the security challenges 04:05.872 --> 04:07.530 that places on us. 04:07.530 --> 04:10.750 I have to sign off on those drones being used 04:10.750 --> 04:14.720 in activities and exercises nearly every week. 04:14.720 --> 04:17.000 We have been disrupted. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.980 So the process we have that thinks 04:20.980 --> 04:24.230 about the future threat, long and hard. 04:24.230 --> 04:27.200 Takes a long time to build whatever the solution is, 04:27.200 --> 04:29.550 and that fields it usually too late. 04:29.550 --> 04:31.330 Is not going to deal with that 04:31.330 --> 04:34.253 potential for disruptive change everywhere. 04:35.700 --> 04:39.130 So the only solution is to consider innovation itself 04:39.130 --> 04:40.760 as the new battlefield. 04:40.760 --> 04:43.080 Like the great philosopher Mike Tyson said, 04:43.080 --> 04:46.850 everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. 04:46.850 --> 04:49.270 What's your plan today? 04:49.270 --> 04:51.990 What are you responsible for the future 04:51.990 --> 04:54.515 of the Air Force and Space Force? 04:54.515 --> 04:55.348 But whatever your plan is, 04:55.348 --> 04:57.310 it's gonna get punched in the mouth. 04:57.310 --> 04:58.870 Are you ready for that? 04:58.870 --> 05:00.970 Are your ready to take a five year plan, 05:00.970 --> 05:05.396 have it be disrupted in the middle and respond more agilely, 05:05.396 --> 05:07.863 more adeptly than your opponent. 05:08.838 --> 05:13.810 It's kind of like the Wayne Gretzky idea of skating ahead 05:13.810 --> 05:16.260 of the puck, except there's so many pucks 05:16.260 --> 05:18.380 that we won't do this centralized. 05:18.380 --> 05:20.180 We've got to empower you. 05:20.180 --> 05:23.000 To bring in agile methodologies 05:23.000 --> 05:25.723 that can deal with disruption and power through. 05:26.620 --> 05:29.250 So whatever our process has been, it's dead. 05:29.250 --> 05:32.060 And you are now the process. 05:32.060 --> 05:35.370 And so from my view, when I have to try and think about 05:35.370 --> 05:38.140 how do we get Airmen ready to take 05:38.140 --> 05:39.540 this idea into acquisition, 05:39.540 --> 05:41.180 which if we don't get that right, 05:41.180 --> 05:43.740 we may be able to win today and we are. 05:43.740 --> 05:46.230 But we won't be able long into the future. 05:46.230 --> 05:48.580 How do we bring that idea of continually 05:48.580 --> 05:50.623 competing into our programs? 05:52.010 --> 05:54.700 Well I always like to use hashtags in these talks. 05:54.700 --> 05:57.000 Things I hope will trend and go viral 05:57.000 --> 05:58.710 in the department of the Air Force. 05:58.710 --> 06:02.280 First and foremost we have to be a competitive Air Force. 06:02.280 --> 06:04.900 Competitive is the thing missing in our 06:04.900 --> 06:07.900 requirements acquisition operations system. 06:07.900 --> 06:11.260 We have been so dominant as a department. 06:11.260 --> 06:13.110 So dominant. 06:13.110 --> 06:16.220 That we really haven't had to bring the adversaries into the 06:16.220 --> 06:20.170 day to day thinking of how to beat opponents. 06:20.170 --> 06:24.050 We've been able to bring systems so magical, so dominant 06:24.050 --> 06:26.580 that we could literally call the enemy and say we're coming 06:26.580 --> 06:29.020 and there's nothing they can do about it. 06:29.020 --> 06:31.220 And that's not gonna be the case in the future. 06:31.220 --> 06:34.950 And if we bet on that future being the one that we hope for. 06:34.950 --> 06:37.370 If we bet on that future we could easily 06:37.370 --> 06:39.010 get punched in the mouth. 06:39.010 --> 06:42.370 So we have to bring this idea of speeding up acquisition. 06:42.370 --> 06:45.420 Bringing in better quality ideas everywhere. 06:45.420 --> 06:49.090 And this word cloud is just to meant to show that the things 06:49.090 --> 06:52.330 that are trending right now are everywhere in our programs. 06:52.330 --> 06:54.370 So amazing things happening. 06:54.370 --> 06:58.100 So in house the jolly roger two the secretary did. 06:58.100 --> 07:00.980 That program pulled off an amazing feat. 07:00.980 --> 07:03.860 Getting to milestone C, beating the odds. 07:03.860 --> 07:06.740 Old school get it done engineering 07:06.740 --> 07:08.670 that we need across the board. 07:08.670 --> 07:11.370 It's not just for helicopters and our airplanes. 07:11.370 --> 07:15.269 T7A is pushing the boundaries of digital engineering. 07:15.269 --> 07:17.450 Figuring out how do we build e-planes. 07:17.450 --> 07:20.530 How do we use digital twins to fundamentally shift 07:20.530 --> 07:24.020 how fast we can build, assemble, and upgrade airplanes 07:24.020 --> 07:26.080 so we're not a static target. 07:26.080 --> 07:29.120 And in space our sat-com programs are bringing in 07:29.120 --> 07:30.333 competitive prototyping. 07:30.333 --> 07:32.570 So that we can expand the industry base. 07:32.570 --> 07:35.100 Give greater opportunity to industry. 07:35.100 --> 07:37.840 And our next generation overhead persistent 07:37.840 --> 07:39.600 infrared missile warning. 07:39.600 --> 07:41.940 It's kinda like the Rocky of the department right. 07:41.940 --> 07:43.750 It's gotta be the satellite that's gotta be able to 07:43.750 --> 07:46.060 take a punch, keep defending. 07:46.060 --> 07:49.441 And very much in Rocky style it's taken a lot of criticism. 07:49.441 --> 07:52.800 And it's still on cost, it's still on schedule. 07:52.800 --> 07:57.800 A new tempo for building large complicated satellites. 07:57.820 --> 08:02.220 Things are amazing at our programs, in terms of speeding up, 08:02.220 --> 08:06.890 bending metal faster, using prototyping as the preferred 08:06.890 --> 08:08.110 method to retire risk. 08:08.110 --> 08:11.610 Cause to be honest with you, I don't believe paper, I don't. 08:11.610 --> 08:14.000 I believe real world data. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.890 And we set a goal over two years ago. 08:16.890 --> 08:18.830 No, two years ago almost to the date, 08:18.830 --> 08:22.296 to try to remove a hundred years out of our portfolio. 08:22.296 --> 08:25.490 We're not gonna win against China and Russia 08:25.490 --> 08:27.900 if we're not better at time to market. 08:27.900 --> 08:30.627 We don't use that term in government. 08:30.627 --> 08:32.420 It's kind of an industry term 08:32.420 --> 08:34.560 but that's the right way to think about competing. 08:34.560 --> 08:36.320 Time to market. 08:36.320 --> 08:38.820 Whatever you're building or whatever you're gonna be using. 08:38.820 --> 08:40.150 Or whatever you're responsible 08:40.150 --> 08:42.470 for creating the requirement for. 08:42.470 --> 08:44.529 If your adversaries can do that faster than you, 08:44.529 --> 08:47.600 statistically we're probably going to lose. 08:47.600 --> 08:50.430 We have to be able to field things faster. 08:50.430 --> 08:52.060 Do things faster. 08:52.060 --> 08:53.410 So time to market matters. 08:53.410 --> 08:56.000 Well we've gone past that hundred year goal. 08:56.000 --> 09:00.440 We're at 125 on our way to a goal 150 this summer. 09:00.440 --> 09:04.210 Just setting, setting the tempo as the 09:04.210 --> 09:06.390 thing we care most about in programs. 09:06.390 --> 09:08.175 Time matters most. 09:08.175 --> 09:11.780 It's not to say we don't care about money and saving costs. 09:11.780 --> 09:14.100 All noble work that we will do. 09:14.100 --> 09:19.100 But you can lose a race with money in your pocket. 09:19.290 --> 09:23.060 Whoever crosses the goal line first gets to set the terms. 09:23.060 --> 09:24.560 So speed is gonna be our focus. 09:24.560 --> 09:26.300 That's how we do things. 09:26.300 --> 09:29.230 But how we do things isn't enough either. 09:29.230 --> 09:31.380 So we can be very fast in the 09:31.380 --> 09:34.170 wrong kinds of programs and still lose. 09:34.170 --> 09:36.320 Not have a competitive system. 09:36.320 --> 09:41.320 What we do and who we do it with matter equally as much. 09:41.880 --> 09:45.090 And so I'm really excited that the Air Force 09:45.090 --> 09:47.980 has been able to take on this idea of competition at scale. 09:47.980 --> 09:50.580 That means we can now do different things. 09:50.580 --> 09:52.380 We've opened up the aperture. 09:52.380 --> 09:55.040 We've delegated authority to the lowest possible level. 09:55.040 --> 09:56.550 I've delegated every authority 09:56.550 --> 09:58.330 I'm legally allowed to delegate. 09:58.330 --> 09:59.870 And if congress would give me more latitude 09:59.870 --> 10:00.980 I'd delegate more. 10:00.980 --> 10:03.400 That is how much I trust the field. 10:03.400 --> 10:05.610 We have to get decision down to 10:05.610 --> 10:07.830 the lowest common denominator. 10:07.830 --> 10:09.510 Own the acquisition OODA loop. 10:09.510 --> 10:12.640 Be faster at going from a requirement to a system. 10:12.640 --> 10:14.200 And we have to do more than that too. 10:14.200 --> 10:15.370 I'm gonna hit this thing third, 10:15.370 --> 10:17.100 but I'm gonna put a little teaser out. 10:17.100 --> 10:18.790 So I've talked a bit about going from 10:18.790 --> 10:21.380 requirements to systems. 10:21.380 --> 10:23.720 But what about opportunities? 10:23.720 --> 10:26.470 So I mean think about all of the amazing things 10:26.470 --> 10:28.240 happening in commercial technology. 10:28.240 --> 10:30.630 How many opportunities are there? 10:30.630 --> 10:32.290 What is our system do about them? 10:32.290 --> 10:33.470 Just kinda stands by. 10:33.470 --> 10:35.760 Just like we did with the hobbyist drones right. 10:35.760 --> 10:40.760 We stood by and we let the supply chain move overseas. 10:40.990 --> 10:44.050 We have to change our system to deal with opportunities. 10:44.050 --> 10:47.160 Requirements into programs is not enough. 10:47.160 --> 10:50.350 We have to have opportunities that create inspirements. 10:50.350 --> 10:51.850 Things that, war fighters say, 10:51.850 --> 10:53.910 I didn't even know I needed that, but I do. 10:53.910 --> 10:56.480 Cause I'm inspired to think about my mission differently. 10:56.480 --> 10:59.120 That burden is on us. 10:59.120 --> 11:01.670 We will have to understand more than 11:01.670 --> 11:03.660 just defense technology. 11:03.660 --> 11:07.581 So what we do is the next focus. 11:07.581 --> 11:09.520 Who we do it with, the last focus. 11:09.520 --> 11:13.453 But Air Force in terms of how we do it, A plus. 11:15.500 --> 11:19.388 The first what we do that is going to be super challenging 11:19.388 --> 11:22.870 but also super exciting, is trying to create 11:22.870 --> 11:25.928 a connected department of the Air Force. 11:25.928 --> 11:30.680 I think we all know that we like to make Power Point slides 11:30.680 --> 11:34.530 in the Pentagon, with a lot of systems with lightening bolts 11:34.530 --> 11:37.830 between them that are supposed to indicate connecting and 11:37.830 --> 11:39.683 sharing data and none of it's real. 11:40.720 --> 11:43.520 But we've been making them so long 11:43.520 --> 11:46.340 that I think we almost pretend it's true. 11:46.340 --> 11:49.600 And I'll tell you this, in a fight against China and Russia, 11:49.600 --> 11:52.716 we are not gonna be able to radio and chat 11:52.716 --> 11:54.990 our way through the fight. 11:54.990 --> 11:57.710 Not in a machine to machine world. 11:57.710 --> 12:00.281 So the problem we have with building a connected Air Force 12:00.281 --> 12:05.136 is we're currently a department of satellites and airplanes, 12:05.136 --> 12:07.003 but we're in airplane mode. 12:08.170 --> 12:10.970 Almost nothing connects to anything else. 12:10.970 --> 12:12.350 Let's see a show of hands. 12:12.350 --> 12:17.350 Who with their phone today, can access meaningful personal 12:17.570 --> 12:20.380 information, financial information, bank information, 12:20.380 --> 12:21.240 anything of that nature. 12:21.240 --> 12:23.190 Who can access that kind of information now? 12:23.190 --> 12:24.420 Show of hands. 12:24.420 --> 12:25.613 Yeah, me too. 12:25.613 --> 12:30.530 Who can change a setting like to their house. 12:30.530 --> 12:33.150 Control something that's more physical in nature. 12:33.150 --> 12:34.640 Crank their car. 12:34.640 --> 12:36.520 So now you're touching the physical world. 12:36.520 --> 12:38.305 Any people like that? 12:38.305 --> 12:40.740 Lot a show of hands. 12:40.740 --> 12:45.493 You came into this conference room touching the world. 12:46.860 --> 12:49.930 Data, analytics, from companies like Google and Amazon 12:49.930 --> 12:51.890 are continuing to improve the way you 12:51.890 --> 12:53.890 interact with those systems. 12:53.890 --> 12:57.490 You're getting better even just by sitting here. 12:57.490 --> 13:01.960 So how could we possibly imagine winning if our war fighters 13:01.960 --> 13:03.850 come in from lives where they are 13:03.850 --> 13:06.160 connected to almost everything. 13:06.160 --> 13:07.320 And come into a military where 13:07.320 --> 13:09.550 they're connected to almost nothing. 13:09.550 --> 13:12.010 And the things they're connected are human to human, 13:12.010 --> 13:13.350 not machine to machine. 13:13.350 --> 13:15.863 That is a losing strategy. 13:16.790 --> 13:20.770 But Air Force and Space Force we have struggled with this. 13:20.770 --> 13:24.960 The internet has happened and we have not happened with it. 13:24.960 --> 13:28.270 Cause our process isn't good at stuff like this. 13:28.270 --> 13:30.790 Now what I want to do in this section 13:30.790 --> 13:33.530 is get past the lightning bolts. 13:33.530 --> 13:37.370 I want to arm you to go back to your jobs and explain, 13:37.370 --> 13:42.070 no kidding how is the Air Force and Space Force really going 13:42.070 --> 13:45.603 to do this in a way that people will say, that's credible. 13:47.460 --> 13:51.150 Well the first thing, before you jump into the connection, 13:51.150 --> 13:53.730 the joint all domain command and control. 13:53.730 --> 13:57.060 The first thing you gotta say is you don't get to do any of 13:57.060 --> 14:01.210 that, any of it, unless you're good at software. 14:01.210 --> 14:03.060 And we have been on the software journey 14:03.060 --> 14:05.520 and this is a plus, plus, plus. 14:05.520 --> 14:09.153 We have so many of these software factories. 14:09.153 --> 14:12.330 Organizations that are doing things at commercial speed 14:12.330 --> 14:13.900 that we can't put them on one slide. 14:13.900 --> 14:15.390 I'm counting over 50. 14:15.390 --> 14:17.401 They all have cool sci-fi names. 14:17.401 --> 14:19.100 Kesselrun, Kobayashi Maru, 14:19.100 --> 14:22.020 you know Platform One, Space Camp, Ski Camp. 14:22.020 --> 14:24.560 I mean that just popped up, they're doing amazing work 14:24.560 --> 14:25.890 out in Utah. 14:25.890 --> 14:29.197 Software is supor cool right now in the department. 14:29.197 --> 14:30.993 And we have to keep it that way. 14:30.993 --> 14:33.090 Because that's the technology 14:33.090 --> 14:35.400 that's gonna change the fastest. 14:35.400 --> 14:38.250 If we can't move at digital speeds we've lost. 14:38.250 --> 14:40.280 Maybe not today, but we've lost. 14:40.280 --> 14:42.500 You have to be good at this first. 14:42.500 --> 14:44.500 You can't just jump to the end and say, 14:44.500 --> 14:46.160 I wanna do artificial intelligence. 14:46.160 --> 14:48.000 That's great, I've heard that talking point, 14:48.000 --> 14:49.670 I've been in those meetings. 14:49.670 --> 14:53.309 I've been in them so many times I get angry at it. 14:53.309 --> 14:57.040 It's like saying you wanna understand the odyssey 14:57.040 --> 14:59.470 but not actually learning Greek. 14:59.470 --> 15:02.576 Like C.S. Lewis said, you've gotta put in the due diligence 15:02.576 --> 15:04.020 at being good at software. 15:04.020 --> 15:05.930 But even that's not enough. 15:05.930 --> 15:10.930 Despite how good, and how fast, and agile we become, 15:11.330 --> 15:14.730 the world of software has changed even during the time 15:14.730 --> 15:16.430 that I've been in this job. 15:16.430 --> 15:18.710 So early in starting Kessel Run, 15:18.710 --> 15:22.330 and it's now a 700 person organization. 15:22.330 --> 15:24.450 It's the world wide weapon system. 15:24.450 --> 15:27.600 Moving code to air operation centers twice a day. 15:27.600 --> 15:31.000 With all of that tech company type support. 15:31.000 --> 15:34.063 Like forward support, help desk, 15:34.063 --> 15:37.840 edge capabilities as well as global. 15:37.840 --> 15:41.490 It's amazing that that has happened so quickly. 15:41.490 --> 15:43.390 But the technology of software's changed 15:43.390 --> 15:44.815 even in the last two years. 15:44.815 --> 15:46.146 There's a big movement, 15:46.146 --> 15:47.960 called containerization or Kubernetes, 15:47.960 --> 15:50.827 that's being driven by Google and others, it's opensource. 15:50.827 --> 15:53.280 And it solves one of the most amazing problems 15:53.280 --> 15:57.390 that we need to build that connected joint force. 15:57.390 --> 15:59.600 The problem it solves is it allows 15:59.600 --> 16:03.210 code to be run everywhere the same way. 16:03.210 --> 16:05.910 Mirrors the runtime bit for bit. 16:05.910 --> 16:08.060 And so that's a technical way of saying 16:08.060 --> 16:10.770 if it runs on your laptop it'll run on your jet. 16:10.770 --> 16:11.980 It'll run on your satellite. 16:11.980 --> 16:14.400 It'll run on whatever you have. 16:14.400 --> 16:16.860 Now you could understand why Google and companies 16:16.860 --> 16:18.770 that are driving the internet of things would want 16:18.770 --> 16:20.320 that kind of technology. 16:20.320 --> 16:23.480 I wanna develop and I wanna be able to push containers 16:23.480 --> 16:27.370 back and forth to the internet of things at the edge 16:27.370 --> 16:29.690 and know that nothing's gonna crash. 16:29.690 --> 16:32.630 And as the things at the edge become more safety critical 16:32.630 --> 16:36.180 like with self driving vehicles coming into play. 16:36.180 --> 16:39.997 Safety of those software pushes is more imperative. 16:39.997 --> 16:42.633 And so commercial world's solving this for us. 16:42.633 --> 16:46.720 That has changed, that has changed just in the last year. 16:46.720 --> 16:49.470 It is going viral faster than Linux. 16:49.470 --> 16:52.010 And so it's one of our first litmus tests'. 16:52.010 --> 16:55.740 Can we, after we've created all of these agile organizations 16:55.740 --> 16:59.580 have them agilely move to a breakthrough technology. 16:59.580 --> 17:01.340 They're doing great. 17:01.340 --> 17:05.900 We had enterprise cloud going across these companies in the 17:05.900 --> 17:07.890 Air Force and Space Force. 17:07.890 --> 17:10.910 All of them are shifting to Kubernetes space development. 17:10.910 --> 17:14.330 And one of our teams, Space Camp and Level Up actually 17:14.330 --> 17:16.610 ran Kubernetes on a jet the first time. 17:16.610 --> 17:20.040 They went directly from a laptop to the jet, 17:20.040 --> 17:21.770 no steps in between. 17:21.770 --> 17:23.930 No test, no regression. 17:23.930 --> 17:27.120 Now that's cool from an acquisition stand point, 17:27.120 --> 17:29.840 but if you're a war fighter operator that means that if you 17:29.840 --> 17:31.780 just went into the fight and there's a threat 17:31.780 --> 17:35.058 that you didn't anticipate, you can change it. 17:35.058 --> 17:37.410 It does not have to go back through the system. 17:37.410 --> 17:41.740 You can change and get back into the fight and the OODA loop 17:41.740 --> 17:43.830 So hopefully that convinces you 17:43.830 --> 17:46.010 that you gotta have the software skill. 17:46.010 --> 17:50.550 But if you have a bunch of disparate software camps, 17:50.550 --> 17:53.500 you're not gonna be able to do what companies like Google 17:53.500 --> 17:55.810 were able to achieve when they moved their 17:55.810 --> 17:58.030 software development into a cloud. 17:58.030 --> 18:00.540 Not well known, but the reason cloud actually came up, 18:00.540 --> 18:03.410 was you couldn't update software fast enough. 18:03.410 --> 18:07.570 In the search engine wars, it just became too difficult 18:07.570 --> 18:10.970 to have people coding at the edge, trying to create what was 18:10.970 --> 18:13.250 really a centralized product. 18:13.250 --> 18:15.380 So Google and other companies had this idea, 18:15.380 --> 18:17.920 let's push all the computers and data to the center, 18:17.920 --> 18:21.140 that'll speed up our process, it'll make us more economical. 18:21.140 --> 18:24.300 We'll be sharing systems across different users 18:24.300 --> 18:25.800 based on their need. 18:25.800 --> 18:28.040 And it sped up the system. 18:28.040 --> 18:31.050 So cloud was the next evolution 18:31.050 --> 18:33.250 beyond being good at software. 18:33.250 --> 18:37.430 Be good at software, then put it in a cloud. 18:37.430 --> 18:40.590 Well it makes sense if you had a lot of cloud technology, 18:40.590 --> 18:42.320 you'd want to connect things to it. 18:42.320 --> 18:44.470 Cause cloud is really great at managing data, 18:44.470 --> 18:48.010 so wouldn't be great if my systems, people that are coding 18:48.010 --> 18:50.560 on that cloud, things that use the data on that cloud, 18:50.560 --> 18:53.790 wouldn't it be great if they were all connected to it. 18:53.790 --> 18:56.844 If you did that you when would then want to do smart things 18:56.844 --> 18:58.597 with your data like make it available to services 18:58.597 --> 19:02.960 that live in that cloud, like artificial intelligence. 19:02.960 --> 19:05.532 The reason that the department has struggled, 19:05.532 --> 19:08.262 is that we started at the end of the story 19:08.262 --> 19:10.507 and didn't really put in the work at the beginning. 19:10.507 --> 19:12.760 You can't skip those first four chapters. 19:12.760 --> 19:15.730 The amazing work that has happened last year and this year, 19:15.730 --> 19:19.160 is we're putting in steps one, two, three and four. 19:19.160 --> 19:21.940 So that we can actually get to that machine to machine 19:21.940 --> 19:23.640 war fighting advantage at the end. 19:24.854 --> 19:27.136 And it's pretty awesome that today the first 19:27.136 --> 19:29.740 enterprise war fighting AI comes online at our 19:29.740 --> 19:31.890 distributed common ground station. 19:31.890 --> 19:35.800 So AI tools, now available across DCGS. 19:35.800 --> 19:39.530 So that we can do things machine, at the machine speed 19:39.530 --> 19:41.640 that we used to do at human speeds. 19:41.640 --> 19:43.520 But this example needs to be something 19:43.520 --> 19:45.530 that starts happening every day. 19:45.530 --> 19:49.210 With new AI capabilities going across our mission. 19:49.210 --> 19:54.210 So that's the skill set that we need to build something 19:54.320 --> 19:56.180 that can connect the joint force. 19:56.180 --> 19:59.873 That can create a military internet of things. 20:01.060 --> 20:03.930 So given that, this advanced battle management system, 20:03.930 --> 20:06.160 and I have acronyms as much anybody, 20:06.160 --> 20:08.640 so I wanna try to get past the acronyms. 20:08.640 --> 20:12.410 ABMS is simply an internet of military things. 20:12.410 --> 20:14.680 We have a lot of things, you're aware of these. 20:14.680 --> 20:16.510 You operate these, you build these, 20:16.510 --> 20:19.080 you wrote the requirements for these. 20:19.080 --> 20:23.100 They are required, built, and operated in a vacuum, 20:23.100 --> 20:25.040 if you're thinking at an architecture level. 20:25.040 --> 20:27.630 I know we go to war jointly. 20:27.630 --> 20:30.140 But we don't engineer this stuff jointly. 20:30.140 --> 20:31.893 It's engineered in a vacuum. 20:33.020 --> 20:36.180 So the sensors and the effects that they create, 20:36.180 --> 20:38.550 the first step is simply connect them. 20:38.550 --> 20:41.350 But don't connect them the way that we've done in the past. 20:41.350 --> 20:43.770 Connect them in a way that's software defined. 20:43.770 --> 20:46.610 Software defined radios that can move between wave forms. 20:46.610 --> 20:49.590 Because our adversaries are gonna try to take them away. 20:49.590 --> 20:52.180 And even if we're in benign conditions 20:52.180 --> 20:53.970 you can still lose calm. 20:53.970 --> 20:56.590 Everyone's had that moment where their cellphone 20:56.590 --> 20:58.720 has dropped comm and you moved to either 20:58.720 --> 21:01.280 a different carrier or you move to 3G. 21:01.280 --> 21:04.530 Seamlessly, you didn't have to tell your phone to do that. 21:04.530 --> 21:06.900 We need that in our fighters and satellites 21:06.900 --> 21:07.733 and everything else. 21:07.733 --> 21:11.010 Ships, soldiers, everything needs that agility so 21:11.010 --> 21:12.833 that we don't lose connectivity. 21:14.190 --> 21:16.370 Because we're putting in cloud. 21:16.370 --> 21:17.790 So we have enterprise cloud. 21:17.790 --> 21:19.170 It's called cloud one, with an 21:19.170 --> 21:21.960 enterprise development platform called platform one. 21:21.960 --> 21:24.430 That allow us to do amazing things with data, 21:24.430 --> 21:27.560 because we have an enterprise data management capability 21:27.560 --> 21:28.570 called data one. 21:28.570 --> 21:31.470 We are starting to put in enterprise capabilities 21:31.470 --> 21:33.990 that mirror the internet of things 21:33.990 --> 21:36.160 and the capabilities they give. 21:36.160 --> 21:39.160 Well once you've got global and local cloud, 21:39.160 --> 21:40.720 just like the internet today. 21:40.720 --> 21:44.330 Now you can do the end of the story. 21:44.330 --> 21:47.072 You can put data and AI and analytics 21:47.072 --> 21:51.020 and start moving human speed to machine speed. 21:51.020 --> 21:53.260 And it doesn't have to take forever. 21:53.260 --> 21:55.410 All of these funny sounding capabilities 21:55.410 --> 21:57.560 with the name One at the end of them. 21:57.560 --> 21:59.520 They're all real, they're all working today 21:59.520 --> 22:03.430 in a radically different way than any previous program. 22:03.430 --> 22:06.150 We put the name One at the end because if we didn't 22:06.150 --> 22:08.210 they'd be really hard to remember. 22:08.210 --> 22:10.840 And also it uploads the right thinking. 22:10.840 --> 22:15.840 We want the joint force to operate as one system. 22:15.930 --> 22:17.850 Not one tightly engineered system, 22:17.850 --> 22:19.840 where one thing's telling something else what to do. 22:19.840 --> 22:23.568 But where just like your phone, data is coming to it 22:23.568 --> 22:26.763 that analytics in the cloud deem would be useful. 22:28.150 --> 22:30.680 Now the way we're doing it is just as impressive 22:30.680 --> 22:32.520 as the thing we're trying to attempt. 22:32.520 --> 22:34.770 Which is very rapid four month cycles. 22:34.770 --> 22:37.020 Cause to be frank, if we told you we're gonna go off 22:37.020 --> 22:39.170 and put together a five year plan and come back with 22:39.170 --> 22:41.410 something that works, you'd automatically know 22:41.410 --> 22:42.630 we're gonna fail. 22:42.630 --> 22:47.000 The best advice we've gotten from internet gurus is push 22:47.000 --> 22:49.810 this capability out in thin slices 22:49.810 --> 22:53.332 that stack towards meaningful capability. 22:53.332 --> 22:55.990 And so early on, we just started the program 22:55.990 --> 22:58.720 but we've already gone out in December and done an 22:58.720 --> 23:01.260 amazing exercise sponsored by General O'shaughnessy, 23:01.260 --> 23:03.420 a homeland defense exercise. 23:03.420 --> 23:06.290 Where we're doing a surrogate cruise missile take down 23:06.290 --> 23:09.670 and nothing there is something that you'd want to probably 23:09.670 --> 23:12.830 be your instate, but all meaningful capability is 23:12.830 --> 23:14.480 demonstrated for the first time. 23:14.480 --> 23:17.347 First time we've connected a F-22 to a F-35. 23:17.347 --> 23:20.620 Is it the instate that we want two or three years from now? 23:20.620 --> 23:24.300 No, but it's a foundational layer we can build upon 23:24.300 --> 23:27.050 and we've checked the box for it's been done. 23:27.050 --> 23:28.320 Now build on it. 23:28.320 --> 23:30.790 Thin slices deployed rapidly. 23:30.790 --> 23:33.320 But one of the things I'm most excited about 23:33.320 --> 23:35.800 from that exercise, which doesn't get the same press 23:35.800 --> 23:38.770 as the F-22 and the F-35 connected by a 23:38.770 --> 23:42.340 Skyborg Valkyrie drone, is this picture. 23:42.340 --> 23:46.670 So we virtualized command and control and put it in a cloud. 23:46.670 --> 23:49.750 So something that would normally sit in a command center. 23:49.750 --> 23:52.140 A vulnerable brick and mortar building. 23:52.140 --> 23:54.797 Was in a cloud that could be accessed by anyone 23:54.797 --> 23:58.290 with the right credentials and user privileges. 23:58.290 --> 24:00.720 And we demonstrated we could push that. 24:00.720 --> 24:03.720 Outside of the brick and mortar building 24:03.720 --> 24:06.390 into the hands of special operators 24:06.390 --> 24:07.883 out in the field on a tablet. 24:09.070 --> 24:12.880 Now just imagine in future that that tablet that those 24:12.880 --> 24:15.410 operators are holding or those soldiers are using, 24:15.410 --> 24:17.400 or whatever device it is. 24:17.400 --> 24:21.550 Just imagine it's like the app Waze or whatever app you like 24:21.550 --> 24:24.280 You're driving along Waze isn't telling you how to drive, 24:24.280 --> 24:27.040 you can take whatever turns you want. 24:27.040 --> 24:30.980 But Waze knows your user profile, it knows what you like, 24:30.980 --> 24:32.520 it knows your preferences. 24:32.520 --> 24:36.260 And it's taking a world of data that it has access to, 24:36.260 --> 24:39.240 and simply pushing data to you that it thinks may be 24:39.240 --> 24:43.340 relevant for your mission, because it has a profile of it. 24:43.340 --> 24:45.170 And then it allows you to interact with it. 24:45.170 --> 24:48.140 As you interact with the information that it pushes 24:48.140 --> 24:51.223 it gets better at pushing you new data. 24:52.180 --> 24:53.100 That's how it works. 24:53.100 --> 24:54.670 It's as simple as that. 24:54.670 --> 24:56.800 And I'm so afraid we will lose 24:56.800 --> 24:59.060 the message and narrative on this. 24:59.060 --> 25:02.630 And the acronyms and jargon and complexity of the build, 25:02.630 --> 25:07.450 it's a very simple idea that we all live everyday. 25:07.450 --> 25:10.990 You brought a world of connectivity that allows you to 25:10.990 --> 25:13.700 live better lives, more empowered lives. 25:13.700 --> 25:16.950 Because it's giving you data that's useful for you. 25:16.950 --> 25:19.870 With a sense of who you are and what you like. 25:19.870 --> 25:23.230 Just translate that from likes to mission 25:23.230 --> 25:25.550 and you've got what advanced battle management system 25:25.550 --> 25:26.640 has to be. 25:26.640 --> 25:29.490 This is gonna challenge everything about our system. 25:29.490 --> 25:31.900 Requirements, acquisition and operations. 25:31.900 --> 25:35.730 Four month spirals are going to be brutal 25:35.730 --> 25:37.843 on the way we do business today. 25:37.843 --> 25:39.920 But I'll tell you what, if we can learn to operate 25:39.920 --> 25:41.966 at those speeds, that sounds like us 25:41.966 --> 25:43.930 starting to throw a punch in the mouth 25:43.930 --> 25:45.970 in the way our adversaries anticipate 25:45.970 --> 25:47.860 who we're going to be in future. 25:47.860 --> 25:52.430 So juries out on this but what I'm happy about is that 25:52.430 --> 25:55.170 we're starting the right way with the right enthusiasm 25:55.170 --> 25:56.490 and right talent. 25:56.490 --> 25:58.523 So more to follow at future events. 25:59.810 --> 26:02.553 So that's what we're doing. 26:03.430 --> 26:06.557 We also have to change who we do it with. 26:06.557 --> 26:08.610 And this trend, this is commercial. 26:08.610 --> 26:11.470 We have to be a better department of the Air Force 26:11.470 --> 26:15.467 at working with commercial tech and commercial tech trends. 26:15.467 --> 26:19.495 I think this is often viewed as innovation by the department 26:19.495 --> 26:21.310 this is imperative. 26:21.310 --> 26:23.460 This is the thing I worry the most about. 26:23.460 --> 26:26.603 And it's because we have significant challenges here. 26:27.900 --> 26:31.460 Just this pie chart should scare us. 26:31.460 --> 26:35.550 Like 80% of our nations research and development 26:35.550 --> 26:38.770 is not defense, it's commercial. 26:38.770 --> 26:42.150 In the cold war we were once the majority of it. 26:42.150 --> 26:45.850 So we are increasingly thinner slice of the tech pie. 26:45.850 --> 26:48.860 That does not mean that we're getting worse. 26:48.860 --> 26:52.240 It just means that there's more technology available today 26:52.240 --> 26:53.380 than there ever has been right. 26:53.380 --> 26:55.970 Back in the cold war there wasn't the internet 26:55.970 --> 26:58.520 and so two people in a laptop couldn't go create 26:58.520 --> 27:00.950 new technology and major companies 27:00.950 --> 27:02.190 of the future like Facebook. 27:02.190 --> 27:04.340 But now people can do that. 27:04.340 --> 27:06.100 There's more technology. 27:06.100 --> 27:08.800 But the process that we have is very good at 27:08.800 --> 27:11.410 working inside the defense ecosystem. 27:11.410 --> 27:13.070 And the way we work with companies 27:13.070 --> 27:14.850 continues to shrink our industrial base. 27:14.850 --> 27:16.500 Every year mergers and acquisitions 27:16.500 --> 27:19.000 shrink the number of companies that we work with. 27:19.000 --> 27:20.560 The small businesses that are working in 27:20.560 --> 27:23.000 research and development get bought up by the primes. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.560 The primes have to merge and acquire because our programs 27:25.560 --> 27:27.390 are too few and far between. 27:27.390 --> 27:30.150 It puts so much pressure on our system 27:30.150 --> 27:33.380 that only very large companies with broad portfolios 27:33.380 --> 27:35.940 can make it decade to decade. 27:35.940 --> 27:38.650 Because the programs are decade to decade. 27:38.650 --> 27:41.270 Decade moves and this chess game is simply 27:41.270 --> 27:44.190 not gonna cut it in today's world of tech. 27:44.190 --> 27:47.210 But because of that, because the moves are decade to decade 27:47.210 --> 27:49.810 and we're working only inside the defense ecosystem, 27:49.810 --> 27:51.490 startups don't even come see us. 27:51.490 --> 27:54.130 In fact in many cases they're devalued if they have 27:54.130 --> 27:56.670 a contract with defense. 27:56.670 --> 27:58.380 I can't say a more damning statement. 27:58.380 --> 28:00.870 The fact that you have money from us 28:00.870 --> 28:03.820 lowers your evaluation, says we are losing. 28:03.820 --> 28:06.730 Remember China does not have that problem. 28:06.730 --> 28:09.910 They have a nationalized industrial base. 28:09.910 --> 28:13.350 Defense, commercial, it's all hybrid. 28:13.350 --> 28:15.920 All available to their military. 28:15.920 --> 28:18.840 So we're starting behind the starting blocks. 28:18.840 --> 28:21.150 We're starting at a disadvantage, 28:21.150 --> 28:22.840 that we're gonna have to think proactively 28:22.840 --> 28:26.000 about how to negate. 28:26.000 --> 28:29.250 And so the last thing I want to point out before going into 28:29.250 --> 28:31.870 how we negate that, that disadvantage. 28:31.870 --> 28:33.500 Is just simply the tech trends, 28:33.500 --> 28:36.180 they can either be positive or negative for us. 28:36.180 --> 28:37.290 But the tech trends right now 28:37.290 --> 28:39.340 and how we're engaging them are negative. 28:39.340 --> 28:41.020 The technologies that are likely to have the 28:41.020 --> 28:44.510 biggest impact on national security are commercial. 28:44.510 --> 28:47.670 Though AI, synthetic biology, medical, 28:47.670 --> 28:48.530 things like this could have 28:48.530 --> 28:50.450 major challenges to national security. 28:50.450 --> 28:52.743 We're watching the coronavirus currently. 28:52.743 --> 28:55.270 Things like that are kinda outside 28:55.270 --> 28:58.060 the way we work with our industrial base. 28:58.060 --> 29:02.060 So if we engage technology trends the way we do today, 29:02.060 --> 29:04.257 with decade programs. 29:04.257 --> 29:06.600 Programs that happen on a decade cadence. 29:06.600 --> 29:08.210 We're not likely to get the benefit. 29:08.210 --> 29:10.500 It's gonna be a wind coming into our sails 29:10.500 --> 29:12.782 instead of one that's filling it. 29:12.782 --> 29:17.080 And so over the last year, 18 months, we've been trying 29:17.080 --> 29:20.520 a bunch of grass roots initiatives that are all focused on 29:20.520 --> 29:22.800 trying to grow the industry base. 29:22.800 --> 29:25.650 So right now the forces that we place on industry 29:25.650 --> 29:26.944 are collapsing it. 29:26.944 --> 29:30.170 So it's sort of a big crunch all coming into one thing. 29:30.170 --> 29:31.410 We want to create a big bang. 29:31.410 --> 29:33.370 We want more companies coming in. 29:33.370 --> 29:34.900 So organizations like Afwerx 29:34.900 --> 29:37.550 that having been doing accelerators and our 29:37.550 --> 29:39.580 small business innovative research program 29:39.580 --> 29:42.410 working on open topics and ways to open the door 29:42.410 --> 29:44.210 and make it friendlier for tech startups 29:44.210 --> 29:46.290 have had a major impact. 29:46.290 --> 29:48.300 And I'll share with you at the end why I'm so excited 29:48.300 --> 29:51.520 about this and wanting to pull it together into one thing, 29:51.520 --> 29:54.900 one easy to understand thing, called AF Ventures. 29:54.900 --> 29:57.940 So there were so many events I can't put them on here, 29:57.940 --> 30:01.720 but I'll just show that of the pitch days that we started 30:01.720 --> 30:05.830 last March, there have already been 15 in 2019 30:05.830 --> 30:10.010 that brought 360 million into small business. 30:10.010 --> 30:13.130 That's awesome, but the things that's even awesomer, 30:13.130 --> 30:14.810 not a word but I mean it, 30:14.810 --> 30:19.070 is that 733 of those companies are new to us. 30:19.070 --> 30:21.030 They wouldn't have come to us. 30:21.030 --> 30:24.840 They're working on something that could change the world, 30:24.840 --> 30:27.520 but were not thinking about defense applications. 30:27.520 --> 30:30.410 Now they're into our orbit. 30:30.410 --> 30:32.280 But not in a orbit that's gonna turn 30:32.280 --> 30:34.670 them into a future defense prime. 30:34.670 --> 30:37.160 Because we saw private investment matching. 30:37.160 --> 30:40.470 That means when we put these companies on contract, 30:40.470 --> 30:42.520 private investors on average 30:42.520 --> 30:44.370 matched our dollars three to one. 30:44.370 --> 30:47.900 As opposed to less than one to one in the past. 30:47.900 --> 30:50.000 So we grew our money here. 30:50.000 --> 30:55.000 We took 300 million and turned into over a billion. 30:55.180 --> 30:58.540 Think if we did this at scale and routine. 30:58.540 --> 31:02.340 Think if private investors, the venture capitalists 31:02.340 --> 31:04.620 like Andreessen Horowitz and Venrock, 31:04.620 --> 31:08.300 thought of working with the Air Force or Space Force 31:08.300 --> 31:12.826 as a market delineator for becoming a commercial success. 31:12.826 --> 31:15.490 The best companies, the best innovators 31:15.490 --> 31:17.800 would come see us first. 31:17.800 --> 31:21.600 And the thing I'm happy to report is that they are. 31:21.600 --> 31:24.480 With China engaging the way they have on Hong Kong, 31:24.480 --> 31:26.230 even in the last year. 31:26.230 --> 31:29.080 I have seen a change in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, 31:29.080 --> 31:32.670 in terms of how people view the department of the Air Force. 31:32.670 --> 31:35.720 Chinese money is viewed differently than it was in the past. 31:35.720 --> 31:38.800 The images that are online are changing the way 31:38.800 --> 31:40.590 that the Chinese Communist party is viewed. 31:40.590 --> 31:43.310 And there's a window of opportunity to fill the gap. 31:43.310 --> 31:45.710 And thankfully we are. 31:45.710 --> 31:49.390 There's a chance to go really big on this. 31:49.390 --> 31:51.550 If you're kinda wanting to take one rule of thumb, 31:51.550 --> 31:53.230 you're looking for the big companies 31:53.230 --> 31:55.400 that grow up and become household names. 31:55.400 --> 31:56.740 They're often called unicorns. 31:56.740 --> 31:58.160 They go from an idea and all of a sudden 31:58.160 --> 32:00.700 they're a billion dollar company in a year. 32:00.700 --> 32:03.600 We've had two, maybe three of those in defense. 32:03.600 --> 32:06.030 Meaning companies started to work with defense. 32:06.030 --> 32:08.993 So SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril. 32:09.850 --> 32:12.270 Now that's the saddest thing I can say. 32:12.270 --> 32:15.030 Is that we've had only those three. 32:15.030 --> 32:16.740 So thankful for them. 32:16.740 --> 32:19.460 But we have to routinely create companies 32:19.460 --> 32:20.807 that change the world. 32:20.807 --> 32:23.020 And if we can keep AF Ventures 32:23.020 --> 32:25.690 with the same kind of credibility it has today, 32:25.690 --> 32:28.250 as a good housekeeping seal of approval. 32:28.250 --> 32:30.020 The way it's viewed by private investors. 32:30.020 --> 32:32.040 I expect that we'll see that three to one 32:32.040 --> 32:34.380 matching number continue to go up. 32:34.380 --> 32:35.740 That we'll multiply the money 32:35.740 --> 32:38.490 that we put into commercial companies. 32:38.490 --> 32:41.218 And that we'll start seeing a new industry base grow, 32:41.218 --> 32:43.980 that's a different slice of that pie chart. 32:43.980 --> 32:48.320 So rather than just be commercial only, or defense only, 32:48.320 --> 32:51.180 there'll be another slice that's dual use. 32:51.180 --> 32:53.740 Companies that want to come work with defense, 32:53.740 --> 32:56.450 so they get an advantage in commercializing. 32:56.450 --> 32:58.690 And ultimately become big household names. 32:58.690 --> 33:01.840 Wouldn't it be wonderful if the tech giants of the future 33:01.840 --> 33:05.050 all said I got my start working on 33:05.050 --> 33:07.550 a department of the Air Force contract. 33:07.550 --> 33:09.470 That's how we win on the innovation battlefield. 33:09.470 --> 33:12.590 That's how we take it into commercial tech. 33:12.590 --> 33:14.520 We can't just be a purchaser. 33:14.520 --> 33:15.820 We've got to be a partner. 33:17.488 --> 33:20.050 So, let's talk about tech trends. 33:20.050 --> 33:24.190 So I've mentioned that DGI drone, and that really bothers me 33:24.190 --> 33:26.330 so we saw the drone industry, 33:26.330 --> 33:28.660 the hobbyist drone industry pop up. 33:28.660 --> 33:30.580 The Pentagon stood by idle 33:30.580 --> 33:32.300 and the supply chain moved overseas. 33:32.300 --> 33:34.240 And now it's a security risk for us. 33:34.240 --> 33:36.550 So we were disrupted, we were punched in the mouth, 33:36.550 --> 33:37.383 shame on us. 33:37.383 --> 33:40.610 If we had put our demand out, our demand on the market, 33:40.610 --> 33:42.920 that we are willing to pay a higher price for drones 33:42.920 --> 33:43.920 that are trusted. 33:43.920 --> 33:45.520 We might have stopped the entire 33:45.520 --> 33:47.320 supply chain from leaving the country. 33:47.320 --> 33:50.780 The military could have stabilized a domestic market, 33:50.780 --> 33:52.630 that would have lowered our security risk. 33:52.630 --> 33:54.430 Well hobbyist drones are one thing, 33:54.430 --> 33:57.290 there are many technologies that should scare us to death, 33:57.290 --> 33:59.000 if they do the same trend. 33:59.000 --> 34:02.320 Any thing that is smart automation goes in that bucket. 34:02.320 --> 34:05.210 But one that we're starting with as a first initiative 34:05.210 --> 34:08.740 to influence a tech trend and not allow those random forces 34:08.740 --> 34:11.680 to threaten our security is Agility Prime. 34:11.680 --> 34:14.520 Agility Prime is our flying car program, just kicked off. 34:14.520 --> 34:16.460 So flying cars, they're ready. 34:16.460 --> 34:19.180 And I'm just telling you out of just personal cool factor, 34:19.180 --> 34:20.810 I just think we ought to be part of this. 34:20.810 --> 34:24.100 But they are ready to do amazing military missions. 34:24.100 --> 34:25.990 But what's their challenge? 34:25.990 --> 34:27.490 All the companies working them 34:27.490 --> 34:29.170 are working domestic ambitions. 34:29.170 --> 34:30.980 They're not thinking about us. 34:30.980 --> 34:33.070 They're having challenges getting certification 34:33.070 --> 34:35.340 because who's gonna sign off that these things are safe, 34:35.340 --> 34:36.820 or air worthy. 34:36.820 --> 34:38.600 And so we're sitting back watching it, 34:38.600 --> 34:41.930 but think about what we represent as a department. 34:41.930 --> 34:46.020 We have test ranges that are the envy of the private sector. 34:46.020 --> 34:49.160 We have a certification process that is so trusted 34:49.160 --> 34:51.250 that when we fly jets over stadiums 34:51.250 --> 34:53.220 no one worries about them. 34:53.220 --> 34:57.160 We have a value proposition that is greater than our money. 34:57.160 --> 35:00.290 And so what we've done is we've reached out and said, 35:00.290 --> 35:01.990 the Air Force is interested in flying cars, 35:01.990 --> 35:04.640 we want to explore missions like logistics, and rescue, 35:04.640 --> 35:07.890 and disaster relief, we think we can do them differently, 35:07.890 --> 35:10.780 when we get out of the two dimensions that we're often 35:10.780 --> 35:12.860 locked in, into three. 35:12.860 --> 35:16.150 That have greater flexibility and lower sustainment. 35:16.150 --> 35:20.120 The response by private investment has been tremendous. 35:20.120 --> 35:23.150 We're running a program that has billions of dollars 35:23.150 --> 35:25.659 of R and D backing from the private sector, 35:25.659 --> 35:28.290 by spending almost no government money. 35:28.290 --> 35:31.490 We are putting our ranges, our certification, 35:31.490 --> 35:33.630 and the potential for a bill of sale 35:33.630 --> 35:36.270 that is so coveted by commercial companies. 35:36.270 --> 35:38.620 Be that early product market fit. 35:38.620 --> 35:40.920 And it is moving the market. 35:40.920 --> 35:44.810 If we succeed on this, then this has become a habit. 35:44.810 --> 35:46.630 In this department, we have to have people 35:46.630 --> 35:48.090 that are tech scouts. 35:48.090 --> 35:49.810 Looking for trends we can influence. 35:49.810 --> 35:52.440 Because if innovation is the new battlefield, 35:52.440 --> 35:55.070 you've gotta look for opportunities as much as risk. 35:55.070 --> 35:59.400 What are the things we can bring into support of our mission 35:59.400 --> 36:01.920 The thing I worry is, this is a big mission to give anyone. 36:01.920 --> 36:04.200 It's bigger than what we've been trained to do. 36:04.200 --> 36:05.430 We can't just look at threats. 36:05.430 --> 36:06.850 We can't just look at intelligence. 36:06.850 --> 36:09.720 We can't just turn that into performance specifications 36:09.720 --> 36:12.330 and then go out and take 10 years to build something. 36:12.330 --> 36:15.360 We're gonna have to constantly rethink our plans. 36:15.360 --> 36:18.730 Rethink our processes and never be content with the pace 36:18.730 --> 36:20.240 that we build things. 36:20.240 --> 36:21.530 But I'll tell you this. 36:21.530 --> 36:23.970 If you don't get to see these things out in the field, 36:23.970 --> 36:27.540 I know many of us are trapped in jobs where the fire drills 36:27.540 --> 36:30.500 of everyday take us away from innovation. 36:30.500 --> 36:32.350 The leadership in this department 36:32.350 --> 36:34.790 is convincing the field and top cover. 36:34.790 --> 36:38.470 I see more risk taking, more outside the box thinking, 36:38.470 --> 36:41.700 more creativity, than I have seen in any 36:41.700 --> 36:43.780 organization of this size. 36:43.780 --> 36:48.240 We are well on our way to being the innovator in government. 36:48.240 --> 36:50.490 We're starting to get that brand. 36:50.490 --> 36:53.380 Major tech companies that I probably can't say publicly 36:53.380 --> 36:56.320 have reached out saying, okay you're credible. 36:56.320 --> 36:59.010 Let's figure out how we partner in the longterm. 36:59.010 --> 37:03.383 If we keep this up our future is exceptionally bright. 37:04.670 --> 37:06.786 So we have some things that we have to do. 37:06.786 --> 37:08.050 We have to connect the joint force. 37:08.050 --> 37:08.990 It's going to be a challenge. 37:08.990 --> 37:10.060 We've got to work at 37:10.060 --> 37:12.380 internet speeds with internet technology. 37:12.380 --> 37:13.920 Off to a great start. 37:13.920 --> 37:17.050 Every AFA there should be an update of the amazing things 37:17.050 --> 37:19.860 we did on ABMS JADC2. 37:19.860 --> 37:22.450 And if we don't have them we're probably not 37:22.450 --> 37:23.850 trending in the right way. 37:23.850 --> 37:25.440 We ought to have reports on how we're 37:25.440 --> 37:28.320 working better with commercial companies, bringing more in. 37:28.320 --> 37:31.560 Creating the big bang of the industry base. 37:31.560 --> 37:35.270 More companies, more opportunities, more partnerships. 37:35.270 --> 37:38.160 More potential to influence tech trends 37:38.160 --> 37:42.100 in a way that don't just give us capability, that's awesome. 37:42.100 --> 37:44.900 If we commercialize that flying car industry, 37:44.900 --> 37:47.050 faster because we're working with it. 37:47.050 --> 37:49.480 Than that's helping stabilize it in this nation, 37:49.480 --> 37:52.550 so that our industry base is competitive long term. 37:52.550 --> 37:55.010 Not just our defense industry base. 37:55.010 --> 37:57.100 The takeaway, if we're gonna innovate, 37:57.100 --> 37:58.530 win on the innovation battlefield, 37:58.530 --> 38:00.040 everything's gonna have to change. 38:00.040 --> 38:01.050 But that's great. 38:01.050 --> 38:03.750 That means we can start with the process that' a clean sheet 38:03.750 --> 38:04.950 We've got to look everywhere 38:04.950 --> 38:07.100 that we see opportunity and risk. 38:07.100 --> 38:10.180 Empower people to come up with options to mitigate them. 38:10.180 --> 38:13.710 And from a leadership level, get out of their way. 38:13.710 --> 38:16.830 And just what I've seen since the last AFA talk, 38:16.830 --> 38:20.260 just the things that are growing out in the field, 38:20.260 --> 38:22.880 tell me that we are trending in the right direction. 38:22.880 --> 38:27.310 And as long as we don't pull foot off the accelerator, 38:27.310 --> 38:29.710 or change the belief in that top cover, 38:29.710 --> 38:31.710 then everyone of these hashtags are something 38:31.710 --> 38:35.093 that you can count on to continue growing to the point 38:35.093 --> 38:36.750 that they're viral. 38:36.750 --> 38:38.050 Everyday counts. 38:38.050 --> 38:39.200 I ask myself everyday, 38:39.200 --> 38:41.780 what did I do today to help compete and win? 38:41.780 --> 38:45.020 Many days I'm disappointed that the Pentagon pulled me out 38:45.020 --> 38:47.940 of doing the real job of fighting for the future. 38:47.940 --> 38:51.560 I ask everyone here, ask yourself that question everyday. 38:51.560 --> 38:55.650 What did you do today to make it count? 38:55.650 --> 38:57.540 If it didn't count for you, 38:57.540 --> 39:00.720 it may count for your counterpart in China and Russia. 39:00.720 --> 39:04.120 Days go into months, months go into years. 39:04.120 --> 39:07.640 And years will be the difference in victory or defeat. 39:07.640 --> 39:08.677 Let's win. 39:08.677 --> 39:09.929 Thanks you. 39:09.929 --> 39:13.166 (audience applauds) 39:13.166 --> 39:15.916 (dramatic music) 39:32.070 --> 39:34.160 - I can only say the Chinese couldn't 39:34.160 --> 39:36.570 have ever thought of this and they're in trouble. 39:36.570 --> 39:37.793 Thank you Dr. Roper.