WEBVTT 00:00.570 --> 00:02.980 Okay , so it's uh it's it's my pleasure 00:02.980 --> 00:06.400 to introduce our next speaker . Uh Mr 00:06.400 --> 00:08.990 tom vulture law ahead ? A quick a quick 00:08.990 --> 00:10.768 vulture analogy that I think is 00:10.768 --> 00:12.823 actually maybe pretty good here . So 00:12.823 --> 00:14.990 when I was growing up , my dad used to 00:14.990 --> 00:17.212 have this cartoon picture in his office 00:17.212 --> 00:19.212 and it was , you know , it's one of 00:19.212 --> 00:21.379 these lone trees in the desert kind of 00:21.379 --> 00:23.601 thing . You know , one , you know , one 00:23.601 --> 00:27.170 uh one branch and on the branch there 00:27.170 --> 00:29.360 were two vultures uh sitting on the 00:29.360 --> 00:31.527 branch and one vultures talking to the 00:31.527 --> 00:33.804 other and it says I'm tired of waiting , 00:33.804 --> 00:36.027 Let's go kill something . And so when I 00:36.027 --> 00:38.027 think of Air Force futures and what 00:38.027 --> 00:40.082 Secretary Kendall is asking us to do 00:40.082 --> 00:41.971 with operational imperatives , it 00:41.971 --> 00:41.580 always reminds me of that , right ? 00:41.590 --> 00:43.701 Because in the end , I think that's a 00:43.701 --> 00:45.701 little bit what Secretary Kendall's 00:45.701 --> 00:47.757 right uh message to us is right , we 00:47.757 --> 00:49.923 got to stop waiting , Right ? Let's go 00:49.923 --> 00:52.090 figure out how we kill something . And 00:52.090 --> 00:54.910 so uh vulture as our leader of Air 00:54.910 --> 00:57.132 force vulture futures , has really been 00:57.132 --> 00:59.021 charged with the analytics behind 00:59.021 --> 01:01.243 figuring out what is the right thing to 01:01.243 --> 01:03.188 do , really has a huge part in the 01:03.188 --> 01:05.188 operational imperatives , I think a 01:05.188 --> 01:07.354 great speaker to lead us through . And 01:07.354 --> 01:09.410 also how we think current forward to 01:09.410 --> 01:09.160 your point about capability , 01:09.160 --> 01:11.160 development planning . So , vulture 01:11.160 --> 01:12.438 over to you . Thanks . 01:19.030 --> 01:21.030 Alright , good afternoon . Thanks . 01:21.030 --> 01:23.086 General Morris , super excited to be 01:23.086 --> 01:26.140 here . Have this conversation uh 01:26.800 --> 01:29.300 interesting to be the cleanup hitter 01:29.300 --> 01:31.522 here , if you will , you know , an hour 01:31.522 --> 01:33.689 from now ? We can have a discussion on 01:33.689 --> 01:35.633 whether I was actually the cleanup 01:35.633 --> 01:37.578 hitter and successful or was I the 01:37.578 --> 01:39.578 cleanup sweeper ? Behind the circus 01:39.578 --> 01:41.578 parade and the elephants . So we'll 01:41.578 --> 01:45.330 we'll see where this goes . Uh 01:46.180 --> 01:49.330 What I'd like to do is kind of offer uh 01:49.340 --> 01:51.673 the operational side of the imperatives , 01:51.673 --> 01:53.790 how we got there , why we got there . 01:53.800 --> 01:56.000 And then a few lessons learned along 01:56.000 --> 01:58.890 the way . I will note before I forget 01:58.900 --> 02:02.630 that I brought swag for you . It's not 02:02.630 --> 02:04.686 stress balls . It's not toads , it's 02:04.686 --> 02:07.340 not key chains but up on the front desk 02:07.340 --> 02:09.630 here is one page , front and back 02:09.880 --> 02:13.220 unclassified placemat for the 02:13.230 --> 02:15.286 operational imperatives kind of lays 02:15.286 --> 02:17.530 out the situation . The challenge in 02:17.530 --> 02:19.560 the approach for each of the seven 02:19.560 --> 02:21.727 operational imperatives so might be of 02:21.727 --> 02:25.030 interest . So 02:25.040 --> 02:28.970 why why do we care ? Why are we 02:28.980 --> 02:31.202 going to this effort on the operational 02:31.202 --> 02:33.370 imperatives ? And as as you've heard 02:33.370 --> 02:35.910 over the last several days , both in W . 02:35.910 --> 02:38.870 D . I . And El CID uh it's because of 02:38.870 --> 02:41.037 the threat that's out there . The peer 02:41.037 --> 02:43.680 adversary that we're facing continues 02:43.680 --> 02:46.730 to increase range of their weapons , 02:46.740 --> 02:49.530 lethality of their weapons , capacity 02:49.530 --> 02:52.460 of their weapons and most importantly 02:52.470 --> 02:56.420 in group uh the ability to achieve 02:56.420 --> 02:59.700 their wartime objectives regardless of 02:59.700 --> 03:03.060 what we do . That's the overall 03:03.060 --> 03:04.840 imperative if you will for the 03:04.840 --> 03:07.430 operational imperatives ? Uh So what is 03:07.430 --> 03:10.170 changing the risk is changing as we 03:10.170 --> 03:12.226 look at our peer adversaries , china 03:12.226 --> 03:14.710 and Russia . Uh they are we are 03:14.710 --> 03:17.110 increasing risk across the spectrum 03:17.110 --> 03:19.300 with them , we're increasing the risk 03:19.310 --> 03:22.720 uh of maintaining our space 03:22.720 --> 03:25.440 superiority , we're increasing the risk 03:25.440 --> 03:28.490 of being able to gather and mobilize 03:28.500 --> 03:31.150 and deploy forces where and when we 03:31.150 --> 03:34.260 need to , we're increasing risk 03:34.270 --> 03:37.680 uh to the ability to generate the 03:37.680 --> 03:39.791 number of combat sorties that we have 03:39.791 --> 03:42.520 to generate to deny their objectives . 03:44.480 --> 03:47.730 And we're increasing risk to getting to 03:47.740 --> 03:50.050 and fighting in that highly contested 03:50.050 --> 03:53.330 environment . Uh these risks are 03:53.340 --> 03:56.650 unacceptable because without facing and 03:56.660 --> 04:00.360 and surmounting those risk , we lose to 04:00.370 --> 04:03.330 dale whites point . Uh the reason we do 04:03.330 --> 04:06.880 this is to win , but what does winning 04:06.890 --> 04:08.890 look like ? We'll talk a little bit 04:08.890 --> 04:12.430 about that in detail . Uh but even 04:12.440 --> 04:15.930 winning is not a good thing . If you 04:15.930 --> 04:18.680 can imagine a cross Taiwan strait war 04:20.010 --> 04:23.110 uh when we win and prevent china's 04:23.110 --> 04:26.820 objectives of seizing Taiwan , we 04:26.820 --> 04:30.440 still lose carriers and other surface 04:30.440 --> 04:33.070 combatants and all the people on them . 04:34.110 --> 04:37.840 We still lose whole air bases and a 04:37.840 --> 04:40.950 good portion of the airmen on them . 04:41.620 --> 04:44.060 We lose army and marine corps fighting 04:44.060 --> 04:47.650 positions and the marines and soldiers 04:47.660 --> 04:50.320 on them . And that's a that's a that's 04:50.320 --> 04:53.740 a win . Okay , so and 04:53.750 --> 04:57.240 potentially decades of economic impact 04:57.240 --> 05:00.670 to the globe . That's a win . So more 05:00.670 --> 05:02.820 importantly , the force that wins in 05:02.820 --> 05:05.930 that environment is also the force that 05:05.940 --> 05:08.940 deters prior to any conflict . 05:09.840 --> 05:12.400 So if we wanna win , we also want to 05:12.400 --> 05:15.060 deter the force that wins is the force 05:15.060 --> 05:17.227 that deters and we would like to never 05:17.227 --> 05:19.449 have that fight . So every morning when 05:19.449 --> 05:21.560 President she gets up , we'd like him 05:21.560 --> 05:23.838 to open his curtains , look out and go , 05:24.430 --> 05:27.730 not today and we want to continue that . 05:27.740 --> 05:29.796 And that's the sense of urgency that 05:29.796 --> 05:31.629 the sec gap has given us for the 05:31.629 --> 05:33.573 operational imperatives . It's the 05:33.573 --> 05:35.407 sense of urgency that we have to 05:35.407 --> 05:37.629 continue this capability development to 05:37.629 --> 05:39.740 get us to the force of the future and 05:39.740 --> 05:41.962 the Joint Force of the future . That is 05:41.962 --> 05:45.190 able to deter our peer adversaries and 05:45.190 --> 05:48.410 that and survive against that that uh 05:49.170 --> 05:50.281 increasing threat . 05:52.630 --> 05:55.190 So what are we doing about it ? You may 05:55.190 --> 05:57.190 have heard of the joint warfighting 05:57.190 --> 05:59.301 concept . Start out at one point . Oh 05:59.301 --> 06:01.468 now surprisingly enough we went to two 06:01.468 --> 06:03.634 point oh and we're actually working on 06:03.634 --> 06:06.040 the J . W . C . Three point oh that is 06:06.050 --> 06:08.960 directly uh 06:08.970 --> 06:12.090 focused on winning this pier fight 06:12.090 --> 06:14.290 specifically . And across the Taiwan 06:14.290 --> 06:17.980 strait fight , it's aligned with the 06:17.980 --> 06:20.070 national Defense strategy . It's 06:20.070 --> 06:22.348 aligned with defense planning guidance . 06:22.348 --> 06:25.650 All the joint services are aligned with 06:25.650 --> 06:28.190 that warfighting concept and that's key . 06:28.200 --> 06:30.590 Uh you can think back to air land 06:30.590 --> 06:32.980 battle and not everybody was maybe on 06:32.980 --> 06:36.140 board with a L . B . All the services 06:36.140 --> 06:38.362 are on board with the joint warfighting 06:38.362 --> 06:40.584 concept . It is where we are going . It 06:40.584 --> 06:42.807 is the future force we need and from an 06:42.807 --> 06:44.973 internal look to the air force side it 06:44.973 --> 06:48.060 is where our future force design is 06:48.060 --> 06:50.460 focused at getting to , it is where our 06:50.460 --> 06:53.340 Air Force future operating concept is 06:53.340 --> 06:56.060 focused on operating and how we get 06:56.070 --> 06:59.710 there underneath the 06:59.720 --> 07:02.320 joint warfighting concept is these four 07:02.320 --> 07:04.376 supporting concepts , we can go into 07:04.376 --> 07:06.520 them afterwards if you want more 07:06.520 --> 07:09.530 specifics uh with specific concept , 07:09.530 --> 07:11.697 required capabilities . And as we look 07:11.697 --> 07:13.252 at those concept , required 07:13.252 --> 07:15.900 capabilities that are spelled out , we 07:15.900 --> 07:19.310 see where the gaps are . Those 07:19.310 --> 07:21.980 gaps from an Air Force perspective are 07:21.980 --> 07:24.980 exactly what the set gap looked at and 07:24.980 --> 07:27.140 said . These are the critical 07:27.150 --> 07:29.317 imperative gaps that we have to fill . 07:29.317 --> 07:31.690 Hence the operational imperatives . So 07:31.690 --> 07:34.350 that's where we got this first tranche 07:34.350 --> 07:36.730 of seven operational imperatives . 07:36.740 --> 07:39.430 Those are the critical gaps in the 07:39.430 --> 07:41.300 concept required capabilities to 07:41.300 --> 07:43.640 fulfill the Joint warfighting concept . 07:44.890 --> 07:48.720 So we've tested the hypothesis . We've 07:48.720 --> 07:52.090 tested the Future Force design to see 07:52.090 --> 07:55.770 if it actually wins in the J . W . C . 07:56.440 --> 07:59.580 Uh Future Games , 22 Future Games 23 07:59.580 --> 08:02.250 that'll be next january . Actually 08:02.250 --> 08:05.400 takes the Air Force Future Force Design 08:06.370 --> 08:10.010 war Games . It in a joint warfighting 08:10.010 --> 08:12.240 concept scenario against representative 08:12.250 --> 08:15.160 threats and sees how it does and what 08:15.160 --> 08:17.360 we need to tweak most recently this 08:17.360 --> 08:20.040 spring in May . General high note uh 08:20.050 --> 08:23.730 Air Force Futures Director uh lead 08:23.740 --> 08:25.684 the globally integrated war game , 08:25.684 --> 08:29.430 which is a joint staff uh five ay . So 08:29.430 --> 08:32.560 with Allies and Partners war game , in 08:32.560 --> 08:34.990 that same warfighting scenario 08:36.400 --> 08:40.170 and we found that that Future Force and 08:40.170 --> 08:43.300 the Joint warfighting concept , when we 08:43.300 --> 08:47.060 are able to fight in all domain , 08:48.300 --> 08:51.100 fight with our allies and partners 08:52.150 --> 08:54.560 winds in that scenario and prevents our 08:54.570 --> 08:56.630 adversaries uh , meeting their 08:56.630 --> 09:00.450 objectives . Key point 09:00.450 --> 09:02.630 there is that with our allies and 09:02.630 --> 09:04.852 partners . So we talked in the previous 09:04.852 --> 09:06.630 panel about the comparative the 09:06.630 --> 09:09.390 comparative advantage we have in 09:09.390 --> 09:11.920 propulsion . I would offer that one of 09:11.920 --> 09:14.031 the great comparative advantages that 09:14.031 --> 09:17.200 we have that our peer adversaries do 09:17.200 --> 09:20.070 not have is our allies and partners . I 09:20.070 --> 09:22.660 include in allies and partners . Our 09:22.670 --> 09:25.180 industry partners granted uh , they 09:25.180 --> 09:28.530 have a very uh tight coupling between 09:28.530 --> 09:30.700 their government and their industry . 09:30.710 --> 09:33.760 But I would say that the brain trust 09:33.760 --> 09:36.000 that we have an industry , the brain 09:36.000 --> 09:38.111 trust and the capability that we have 09:38.111 --> 09:40.830 within our allies and partners is and 09:40.830 --> 09:42.552 will be critical to the future 09:42.552 --> 09:43.719 warfighting effort . 09:48.640 --> 09:51.130 So given that 09:52.030 --> 09:54.380 capability gap analysis of the joint 09:54.380 --> 09:56.269 warfighting concept in the second 09:56.269 --> 09:59.820 direction , uh , the Oh , I started 09:59.820 --> 10:03.700 out as a sprint Important to 10:03.700 --> 10:06.250 note this was a sprint to figure out 10:06.260 --> 10:08.850 what we could get after in the end , 10:08.860 --> 10:11.040 insert into the FY 24 pond . 10:12.340 --> 10:15.170 I could not agree more with all that's 10:15.170 --> 10:18.430 been said about this coupling between 10:18.430 --> 10:21.870 the acquisition professionals , the 10:21.870 --> 10:24.750 requirements professionals and the re 10:24.750 --> 10:27.070 sourcing professionals as well as 10:27.070 --> 10:28.820 industry to get after this . 10:30.230 --> 10:33.310 That's really what we do in capability 10:33.310 --> 10:35.480 development and what we need to 10:35.480 --> 10:37.770 continue to do is that that trinity 10:37.770 --> 10:40.570 between require ear's 10:40.580 --> 10:44.540 acquirers and resources has to continue 10:45.840 --> 10:47.840 Sprinkle over the top of that , the 10:47.840 --> 10:50.860 analytic rigor that uh staff studies 10:50.860 --> 10:52.749 and analysis brings and the other 10:52.749 --> 10:55.390 analytic branches in all the services 10:55.400 --> 10:58.440 and that helps us get after that force 10:58.440 --> 11:01.950 that we need uh 11:02.600 --> 11:05.770 the sprint nature of the o eyes 11:06.620 --> 11:10.530 While focused initially on the FY 24 11:10.530 --> 11:13.960 palm , we'll continue on . You'll see 11:13.970 --> 11:17.500 uh as palms get revealed , we've made a 11:17.500 --> 11:19.480 down payment on the operational 11:19.480 --> 11:21.360 imperatives but the operational 11:21.360 --> 11:23.850 imperative work itself will continue . 11:23.860 --> 11:27.690 It'll be folded in uh to multiple other 11:27.700 --> 11:29.810 capability , development planning 11:29.810 --> 11:32.032 efforts and we'll continue to do that . 11:33.130 --> 11:35.186 So let's talk a little bit about the 11:35.186 --> 11:37.408 operational imperatives themselves from 11:37.408 --> 11:40.210 an operational perspective . Next slide 11:40.210 --> 11:44.090 please . So on the 11:44.090 --> 11:46.610 chart kind of the one liners on what 11:46.610 --> 11:50.090 exactly is the title and the one liner 11:50.090 --> 11:51.757 for each of those operational 11:51.757 --> 11:53.868 imperatives . But let's talk a little 11:53.868 --> 11:55.812 bit about what that means . On the 11:55.812 --> 11:59.750 space side , we cannot afford 11:59.750 --> 12:02.470 in the future fight to lose control of 12:02.470 --> 12:06.100 space , we need to be able to bring 12:06.110 --> 12:10.020 effects to space from space and in 12:10.020 --> 12:13.920 space . We need position having timing 12:13.930 --> 12:16.740 capability , we need communications 12:16.740 --> 12:18.850 capability , we need data transport 12:18.860 --> 12:21.760 capability and we must have that as a 12:21.760 --> 12:24.150 joint enabler for the future war fight 12:24.160 --> 12:27.940 period on the A B . M . S . 12:27.940 --> 12:30.420 Advanced battle management system side , 12:31.570 --> 12:35.380 this is a critical 12:35.380 --> 12:38.680 effort really . 234 even five if you 12:38.680 --> 12:40.902 will all kind of get lumped together in 12:40.902 --> 12:43.270 my mind is one big mosh pit of 12:43.280 --> 12:46.290 capability but 12:47.180 --> 12:49.180 A B . M . S itself is that critical 12:49.180 --> 12:52.600 ability to sense 12:54.180 --> 12:57.420 to make sense and to bring effects to 12:57.420 --> 12:59.642 the battle space at a time and place of 12:59.642 --> 13:00.642 our choosing . 13:03.590 --> 13:07.430 If you think back from uh post desert 13:07.430 --> 13:10.530 storm into and certainly post 9 11 13:10.540 --> 13:12.820 we've had the luxury in the counter ve . 13:12.820 --> 13:16.690 O fight to put exquisite I . 13:16.690 --> 13:19.680 S . Are up over potential targets 13:21.430 --> 13:24.470 orbit for hours , sometimes days pick 13:24.470 --> 13:27.400 up kind of life 13:27.410 --> 13:31.000 trends , specified targets . 13:31.010 --> 13:33.250 Talk about what would be the best 13:33.250 --> 13:35.250 shooter and the best weapon against 13:35.250 --> 13:38.180 that target and ultimately make a 13:38.180 --> 13:40.291 command and control decision . Yeah , 13:40.291 --> 13:42.402 go ahead and smack that that target . 13:43.030 --> 13:45.030 We have to have a battle management 13:45.030 --> 13:47.990 system that can scale to thousands of 13:48.000 --> 13:51.110 targets in hundreds of 13:51.110 --> 13:54.940 hours , making near real time decisions 13:55.080 --> 13:58.290 and think if you will a battle 13:58.290 --> 14:00.150 management system that can take 14:00.160 --> 14:02.520 information from a space sensor , 14:04.460 --> 14:07.100 get it down to an army long range fires 14:07.100 --> 14:11.070 shooter who fires a 14:11.070 --> 14:14.190 surface to surface missile that's now 14:14.190 --> 14:17.630 moving at hypersonic speeds . That gets 14:17.630 --> 14:19.880 an in flight target update from a 14:19.880 --> 14:22.420 marine corps fighter 14:24.690 --> 14:27.960 that then hits a target and we get real 14:27.960 --> 14:31.100 time battle damage assessment from some 14:31.100 --> 14:33.960 other weapon , Some other sensor in the 14:33.960 --> 14:36.700 battle space and that comes back to 14:36.700 --> 14:38.922 command and control authorities as well 14:38.922 --> 14:41.033 as the rest of the fleet so that they 14:41.033 --> 14:42.910 understand from a battle space 14:42.910 --> 14:45.270 situational awareness standpoint , 14:45.280 --> 14:48.750 whether that threat is up , it's 14:48.750 --> 14:51.910 down , it's at least been rendered 14:51.920 --> 14:54.830 unfunny channel and then we can 14:54.830 --> 14:57.700 continue operations . So that is not a 14:57.700 --> 14:58.660 simple 15:01.020 --> 15:03.780 solution either from an architecture 15:03.780 --> 15:06.550 standpoint as general Janet tempo real 15:06.550 --> 15:10.340 knows very well knows uh or 15:10.350 --> 15:12.517 from a doctrinal standpoint . So think 15:12.517 --> 15:16.240 about for a minute , Who's doing the C2 15:16.450 --> 15:19.770 of that specific battle management , 15:20.350 --> 15:24.090 who owns that space sensor , 15:24.110 --> 15:27.310 that army shooter , that marine in 15:27.310 --> 15:30.130 flight target update er and the battle 15:30.130 --> 15:32.130 damage assessment capability on the 15:32.130 --> 15:34.560 back end of it . Uh this is not trivial 15:34.560 --> 15:38.350 and I think next to uh oh I five 15:38.360 --> 15:40.582 and based resiliency , this is probably 15:40.582 --> 15:42.870 our toughest nut to crack going forward 15:42.870 --> 15:45.680 will probably take us the longest to 15:45.680 --> 15:47.370 kind of morph up to that full 15:47.370 --> 15:51.290 capability . Next you've 15:51.290 --> 15:53.380 heard uh dale white talk about the 15:53.650 --> 15:55.706 family of systems and one of the key 15:55.706 --> 15:58.950 takes out of that is that we believe 15:58.950 --> 16:02.130 that uh collaborative combat platforms , 16:02.140 --> 16:05.280 combat aircraft will be part of that 16:05.290 --> 16:07.512 family of systems to increase volume of 16:07.512 --> 16:11.230 fires to increase lethality and to 16:11.240 --> 16:13.930 increase effectiveness on the , on the 16:13.930 --> 16:17.550 battlefield . And we are working to 16:17.550 --> 16:20.460 develop and field those c C A S and we 16:20.460 --> 16:23.410 will continue uh to 16:23.410 --> 16:26.030 specify what that means 16:28.280 --> 16:30.590 and how it will be employed and again 16:30.590 --> 16:32.940 back to the kind of dot mil pf side of 16:32.940 --> 16:35.720 this , you know , while we have 16:35.810 --> 16:39.640 unscrewed platforms today we are going 16:39.640 --> 16:41.480 to be using them in a completely 16:41.480 --> 16:44.000 different fashion , which will require 16:44.000 --> 16:47.030 us to potentially organize differently , 16:47.040 --> 16:49.530 certainly train differently , uh 16:49.540 --> 16:51.860 potentially deploy differently and 16:51.860 --> 16:55.620 certainly employ differently alongside 16:55.620 --> 16:57.787 us . We talked about battle management 16:57.787 --> 17:01.770 and uh the family systems 17:02.000 --> 17:05.830 inherit in those and in the uh 17:07.590 --> 17:09.960 and in the long range kill chain piece 17:09.960 --> 17:13.620 of the O . I . S . Is the weapons 17:13.620 --> 17:16.230 themselves . So by and large the 17:16.240 --> 17:19.120 weapons we are developing currently 17:19.140 --> 17:21.860 have the right capability we need 17:23.080 --> 17:25.920 there are some changes will make around 17:25.920 --> 17:27.642 the margins and some potential 17:27.642 --> 17:29.790 additions in terms of weapons but 17:29.800 --> 17:32.580 capacity will be critical to the future 17:32.580 --> 17:35.880 fight . And frankly uh we are not 17:35.890 --> 17:38.760 producing at capacity not near enough 17:38.760 --> 17:41.130 capacity for the future fight . And we 17:41.130 --> 17:44.810 must we must do that . We've 17:44.820 --> 17:47.740 flip flopped the oh I order from from 17:47.740 --> 17:49.880 this chart to where they sit number 17:49.880 --> 17:52.550 wise now but moving target engagement 17:52.560 --> 17:55.720 at scale uh is a critical piece and 17:55.720 --> 17:59.120 we've pasted out in the oh I 17:59.120 --> 18:01.620 work the mission engagement thread for 18:01.620 --> 18:04.590 the long range kill chain or kill web 18:04.600 --> 18:06.780 if you will . And where the critical 18:06.780 --> 18:10.060 gaps are in that long range chain . And 18:10.060 --> 18:13.860 are we are getting after that com 18:13.890 --> 18:16.740 data transport , sense and sense making 18:16.750 --> 18:19.100 are critical to those efforts as well . 18:21.950 --> 18:25.080 We'll also look at how we get moving 18:25.080 --> 18:28.010 target indications and how we actually 18:28.020 --> 18:31.330 uh maintain target custody over 18:31.330 --> 18:35.180 time uh in that battle 18:35.180 --> 18:38.050 space so that we can in fact track 18:38.050 --> 18:41.640 targets from the air or the 18:41.640 --> 18:45.600 surface potentially from space . Both 18:45.610 --> 18:48.960 moving uh surface targets as well as 18:48.960 --> 18:51.320 airborne targets uh and 18:52.380 --> 18:56.290 maintain combat I . D maintain 18:56.290 --> 19:00.030 custody of those targets to seeker with 19:01.110 --> 19:03.110 of whichever weapon we need to pair 19:03.110 --> 19:05.630 against those targets ? Uh That again 19:05.630 --> 19:08.200 is another tough nut to crack , but 19:08.200 --> 19:12.070 we're going after it , I'd 19:12.070 --> 19:14.460 say , I think Mr Hunter mentioned a 19:14.460 --> 19:17.590 little bit about any sensor , any 19:17.590 --> 19:19.757 shooter . And I would just refine that 19:19.757 --> 19:22.020 a smidge uh in the long range kill 19:22.020 --> 19:24.270 chain , It should be the right sensor 19:25.690 --> 19:28.450 to the right shooter , with the right 19:28.450 --> 19:31.240 weapon for that particular target . 19:32.610 --> 19:34.554 And that's what we're trying for . 19:34.554 --> 19:36.730 Think foremost in Secretary Kendall's 19:36.730 --> 19:39.080 mind . Uh , and probably his biggest 19:39.080 --> 19:41.040 concern is a resilient , basing 19:41.050 --> 19:43.050 sustainment and communications in a 19:43.050 --> 19:45.740 contestant environment . Uh That is one , 19:45.740 --> 19:48.050 oh , I that is keeping him up at night . 19:48.060 --> 19:50.960 Uh , I think anybody who's ever 19:50.960 --> 19:53.620 deployed to a main operating base uh 19:53.630 --> 19:57.020 lived out of it went to their aircraft 19:57.020 --> 20:00.430 at the same spot every day , uh with 20:00.430 --> 20:03.120 the same weapons load barn with the 20:03.120 --> 20:06.430 same weapons and ammo dump with the 20:06.430 --> 20:10.050 same fuel supply areas , 20:10.060 --> 20:12.930 uh , knows that that is a ripe target . 20:12.940 --> 20:16.260 Not you can get that target from google 20:16.260 --> 20:19.060 maps . Uh , so this is not a difficult 20:19.070 --> 20:21.790 targeting uh situation for our 20:21.790 --> 20:23.790 adversaries and one that we have to 20:23.810 --> 20:25.977 really have to think hard about . Part 20:25.977 --> 20:27.921 of this will be agile agile combat 20:27.921 --> 20:29.643 employment . So let's make the 20:29.643 --> 20:31.421 targeting of our adversary more 20:31.421 --> 20:33.366 difficult part of this will be pre 20:33.366 --> 20:35.700 positioning as we move out from hubs to 20:35.700 --> 20:38.020 spokes . Uh part of this will be pre 20:38.020 --> 20:40.090 positioning of assets . But what are 20:40.090 --> 20:41.979 the right things we need at those 20:41.979 --> 20:43.868 places ? How do we get it there ? 20:43.868 --> 20:46.580 Either before conflict or during 20:46.580 --> 20:48.820 conflict ? And what might not be highly 20:48.820 --> 20:50.598 contested but certainly will be 20:50.598 --> 20:54.390 contested airspace ? How do we resupply ? 20:54.580 --> 20:58.420 How do we infill an ex fil and and how 20:58.420 --> 21:01.190 do we continue ops and generate sorties ? 21:01.430 --> 21:03.870 That logistics under attack piece it 21:03.870 --> 21:07.830 must must occur right at 21:07.840 --> 21:09.840 those particular bases or any where 21:09.840 --> 21:11.562 we're located . In addition to 21:11.562 --> 21:14.110 preposition in addition to dispersion 21:14.120 --> 21:16.120 outside the base , we need to think 21:16.120 --> 21:18.231 about dispersion on base . We need to 21:18.231 --> 21:20.398 think about camouflage . Some of these 21:20.398 --> 21:22.620 old concepts that were second nature in 21:22.620 --> 21:25.500 the Cold War are now coming back camo 21:25.510 --> 21:28.440 deception and concealment . Those are 21:28.440 --> 21:30.607 gonna be part and parcel of the way we 21:30.607 --> 21:32.273 fight the war of the future . 21:34.640 --> 21:37.370 I'll talk now about the B21 , the 21:37.370 --> 21:39.480 family of systems . So initially we 21:39.480 --> 21:41.690 were kind of thinking that this would 21:41.700 --> 21:45.230 parallel uh and God and the family of 21:45.230 --> 21:48.520 systems . I think We've thought a 21:48.520 --> 21:50.742 little bit differently about this . And 21:50.742 --> 21:52.798 we're taking I'll say an operational 21:52.798 --> 21:54.964 pause on the family of systems . Piece 21:54.964 --> 21:58.110 of the B-21 were concentrated mostly on 21:58.120 --> 22:01.840 what is the right weapons Load for the 22:01.840 --> 22:03.951 B- 21 . What are the right effects we 22:03.951 --> 22:07.770 need and when actually will uh we need 22:07.770 --> 22:11.670 and how best to use the B- 21 . So that 22:11.680 --> 22:13.710 would be critical to us but we will 22:13.710 --> 22:16.420 need that ability to penetrate in the 22:16.420 --> 22:19.160 highly contested environment . We will 22:19.160 --> 22:21.700 need it to be survivable and we will 22:21.700 --> 22:23.867 need to bring volume of fires to those 22:23.867 --> 22:25.922 engagements . So we will continue it 22:26.830 --> 22:30.780 finally , Oi seven the readiness 22:30.780 --> 22:32.724 of the Department of the Air Force 22:32.724 --> 22:35.050 transition to a war wartime footing . 22:35.060 --> 22:38.700 Uh really with General Hawk as the 22:38.710 --> 22:42.520 lead uh worked a lot on the cyber 22:42.520 --> 22:44.742 side of that transition . And how do we 22:44.742 --> 22:48.010 protect our networks that mobilize and 22:48.010 --> 22:51.430 deploy uh and generate forces ? How do 22:51.430 --> 22:53.890 we get them in theater ? Uh , what we 22:53.890 --> 22:56.320 are now thinking about is whether we 22:56.330 --> 22:59.420 add on to oh I seven for the mobility 22:59.420 --> 23:02.510 piece and the air to air refueling side 23:02.510 --> 23:04.566 of this . So do we have the mobility 23:04.566 --> 23:06.566 forces we need , do we have the air 23:06.566 --> 23:09.110 refueling forces ? We need to be able 23:09.110 --> 23:11.277 to get into theater to be able to move 23:11.277 --> 23:13.310 around within theater to be able to 23:13.310 --> 23:16.780 sustain and supply the forces . And 23:16.780 --> 23:19.380 that's the joint forces , not just the 23:19.390 --> 23:22.730 air forces within theater . So that's 23:22.740 --> 23:25.500 uh , that's what we're looking at on Oi 23:25.510 --> 23:28.820 seven . You can see as as we've had 23:28.820 --> 23:30.930 this discussion 23:32.420 --> 23:36.370 that the common thread and you've seen 23:36.370 --> 23:38.640 it over the last several days . The 23:38.640 --> 23:40.251 common threads through these 23:40.251 --> 23:41.807 operational imperatives are 23:41.807 --> 23:45.260 communications , networking and 23:45.260 --> 23:48.850 logistics . So either during 23:49.090 --> 23:52.440 competition and certainly during 23:52.440 --> 23:56.090 conflict , we will need to be able to 23:56.090 --> 23:59.560 command and control from Conus 24:00.270 --> 24:02.300 as we start to generate forces . We 24:02.300 --> 24:04.244 will need to be able to see to the 24:04.244 --> 24:06.356 forces as they move into theater . We 24:06.356 --> 24:08.356 will need to be able to command and 24:08.356 --> 24:10.578 control the forces as a disperse within 24:10.578 --> 24:12.744 theater . Uh We will certainly need to 24:12.744 --> 24:15.150 be able to see two as we move into the 24:15.150 --> 24:18.660 area of operations and uh deny enemy 24:18.660 --> 24:21.540 objectives uh saying a cross strait 24:21.540 --> 24:25.020 invasion . And we will 24:25.020 --> 24:28.660 need the networks uh that allow us to 24:28.660 --> 24:31.720 do that . The data links that allow us 24:31.720 --> 24:35.650 to move information not just too crude 24:35.650 --> 24:39.580 and unscrewed platforms to command and 24:39.580 --> 24:42.470 control platforms back to the main 24:42.470 --> 24:44.526 operating bases to forward operating 24:44.526 --> 24:47.920 bases , to army fires positions 24:47.930 --> 24:51.870 to uh marine uh expeditionary 24:51.880 --> 24:55.690 operations positions uh to invite 24:55.690 --> 24:58.450 targeting weapons in flight and then 24:58.460 --> 25:01.080 drawing what information we can as 25:01.090 --> 25:03.620 battle damage assessment Uh from 25:03.620 --> 25:07.230 whatever uh sensor in theater we 25:07.230 --> 25:09.260 can and bring it back to the C2 . 25:11.130 --> 25:13.220 All of those communications and 25:13.220 --> 25:17.060 networks need to be built . 25:18.050 --> 25:21.960 Uh It is not gonna come at uh we're 25:21.960 --> 25:24.016 not gonna wake up one morning and go 25:24.016 --> 25:26.071 hey everything we have is in place . 25:26.071 --> 25:28.238 We're good to go . We will be building 25:28.238 --> 25:30.850 on that throughout The sense of urgency 25:30.850 --> 25:33.320 that general white talked about uh to 25:33.320 --> 25:37.190 me means this isn't uh hey we 25:37.190 --> 25:39.301 just need to have something out there 25:39.301 --> 25:42.550 by 2030 . Uh this is we need to be 25:42.550 --> 25:46.030 ready tomorrow . So if I'm a fighter 25:46.030 --> 25:48.880 wing commander today , my forces need 25:48.880 --> 25:51.600 to be ready to deploy tomorrow . 25:52.580 --> 25:55.830 We as requirements 25:55.840 --> 25:58.590 professionals , you as industry and 25:58.590 --> 26:00.300 acquisition professionals , 26:00.310 --> 26:03.100 logisticians . You need to be ready to 26:03.100 --> 26:05.810 go tomorrow . We need to be able to 26:05.810 --> 26:08.040 build to the best capability that we 26:08.040 --> 26:11.840 can uh in this next few years 26:11.850 --> 26:15.290 and then continue to work through 26:15.290 --> 26:18.530 those capability development plans , 26:18.530 --> 26:21.760 those roadmaps via acquisition 26:21.760 --> 26:23.482 strategies and the appropriate 26:23.482 --> 26:25.570 requirements , documentation and 26:25.570 --> 26:28.560 certainly the correct re sourcing 26:29.610 --> 26:31.721 to get us to the future force that we 26:31.721 --> 26:33.832 need that actually fights and wins in 26:33.832 --> 26:34.943 that battle space . 26:37.560 --> 26:40.980 So , uh , lastly I'll comment 26:40.990 --> 26:43.390 on what are the O . I . S and maybe 26:43.390 --> 26:46.230 what maybe more importantly what the oh 26:46.230 --> 26:49.960 eyes are not right . The end , I'll 26:49.960 --> 26:52.240 reiterate the OS for a short sprint 26:52.330 --> 26:56.250 initially to get to fy 20 for 26:56.250 --> 26:58.250 palm solution , particularly in the 26:58.250 --> 27:01.010 near years . What they morphed into and 27:01.010 --> 27:03.960 what they will continue to be is a long 27:03.960 --> 27:06.580 term capability development planning 27:06.590 --> 27:10.440 iteration on where are we today and 27:10.440 --> 27:12.440 where do we need to get to in the 27:12.440 --> 27:16.130 future ? And what can we do right now . 27:16.140 --> 27:19.650 So that again , every morning when 27:19.650 --> 27:21.706 President she wakes up and opens his 27:21.706 --> 27:25.550 curtains . Not today . Today's 27:25.550 --> 27:26.240 not the day 27:30.240 --> 27:32.850 there is obviously along those lines , 27:32.860 --> 27:35.670 a lot of work to do what you'll see in 27:35.670 --> 27:38.130 24 is a down payment on some of these 27:38.130 --> 27:40.450 will continue to work at . Obviously we 27:40.450 --> 27:42.617 don't even have the fy 23 budget yet . 27:42.617 --> 27:45.540 So that will affect the near term that 27:45.540 --> 27:47.762 will then affect what actually is going 27:47.762 --> 27:50.230 to happen in 24 to 27 . So we will 27:50.230 --> 27:52.920 continue to iterate on these capability 27:52.920 --> 27:55.130 development plans to get to the force 27:55.130 --> 27:57.570 that we need and so we will all have to 27:57.570 --> 27:59.737 breathe through our noses for a couple 27:59.737 --> 28:02.950 more months , maybe several more months 28:02.960 --> 28:06.570 uh maybe until early spring before we 28:06.570 --> 28:09.050 even know what FY 23 budget actually 28:09.050 --> 28:10.883 looks like . So that will ripple 28:10.883 --> 28:13.550 through all of this . The enemy gets a 28:13.550 --> 28:16.500 vote , the threat will change , we will 28:16.500 --> 28:18.722 continue to iterate on these capability 28:18.722 --> 28:20.889 development plans . But one thing I do 28:20.889 --> 28:24.810 know is as quickly as we can , we need 28:24.810 --> 28:27.032 to get capability into the hands of the 28:27.032 --> 28:29.120 Joint Warfighter and then be able to 28:29.130 --> 28:32.800 iterate and modernize 28:33.030 --> 28:35.820 and improve that capability to get out 28:36.380 --> 28:38.790 to the full capability that they need 28:38.800 --> 28:41.840 to fight that fight . So 28:41.850 --> 28:45.140 what the oh eyes are not , they're not 28:45.140 --> 28:48.010 the whole picture . Okay . You can't 28:48.010 --> 28:50.810 say , hey , we funded all seven 28:50.810 --> 28:53.200 operationalize their fully funded life 28:53.200 --> 28:55.367 is good . We don't need to do anything 28:55.367 --> 28:58.790 else . There are a ton of other concept 28:58.790 --> 29:01.330 required capabilities and foundational 29:01.330 --> 29:04.180 capabilities that both the Air Force 29:04.190 --> 29:07.180 Space Force and the Joint Force need 29:07.200 --> 29:09.280 that are not nested inside the 29:09.280 --> 29:11.447 operational imperatives . So there's a 29:11.447 --> 29:13.613 whole other part of the Air Force that 29:13.613 --> 29:15.447 still needs to be funded . Think 29:15.447 --> 29:17.669 weapons systems sustainment , think the 29:17.669 --> 29:19.558 flying our program think test and 29:19.558 --> 29:22.960 evaluation . All of that still has to 29:22.960 --> 29:26.880 get both funded and planned so that it 29:26.880 --> 29:29.580 marches in pace with the specific 29:29.580 --> 29:31.802 efforts of the operational imperative . 29:32.910 --> 29:36.230 It's also I think as we've talked about 29:36.240 --> 29:38.200 uh not a one and done so the 29:38.200 --> 29:40.311 operational imperatives are not a one 29:40.311 --> 29:42.660 and done again once I get them funded , 29:42.670 --> 29:44.448 life is good . These are living 29:44.448 --> 29:46.670 documents that will continue to develop 29:46.670 --> 29:48.726 those capability development plans . 29:49.800 --> 29:52.022 Lastly , I'd like to finish up and then 29:52.022 --> 29:54.022 get into questions with a couple of 29:54.022 --> 29:56.640 thoughts on lessons learned from the 29:56.650 --> 29:59.900 operational imperative uh sprint so far 29:59.900 --> 30:03.750 and the ongoing work I 30:03.760 --> 30:07.640 talked earlier uh about the criticality 30:07.650 --> 30:09.910 of our allies and partners and actually 30:09.910 --> 30:12.920 that discussion during the oh eyes has 30:12.920 --> 30:16.450 spawned a lot of conversation on wow . 30:16.460 --> 30:19.660 Wouldn't it be good if we could bring 30:19.660 --> 30:22.440 the allies and partners into this 30:22.450 --> 30:24.810 classified discussion , see what they 30:24.810 --> 30:27.060 can offer in that space , See what 30:27.060 --> 30:30.470 they're bringing to the war fight and 30:30.480 --> 30:33.960 increase the overall joint force and 30:33.960 --> 30:36.710 coalition force capability . The good 30:36.710 --> 30:39.830 news is from a security standpoint . Uh 30:39.840 --> 30:43.810 We have uh broken down some doors , not 30:43.820 --> 30:45.876 all the doors , there are still some 30:45.876 --> 30:47.876 doors in the castle that need to be 30:47.876 --> 30:49.876 broken down . But we've broken down 30:49.876 --> 30:49.640 some of those security doors and 30:49.640 --> 30:52.530 started getting uh the ability to have 30:52.530 --> 30:55.540 higher level conversations both within 30:55.540 --> 30:58.040 the services and Department of Defense , 30:58.050 --> 31:00.870 external the Department of Defense as 31:00.870 --> 31:03.340 well as with our industry partners . Uh 31:03.350 --> 31:05.560 to have more fulsome conversations 31:05.570 --> 31:08.870 about what we need when we need it and 31:08.880 --> 31:10.102 how do we get there , 31:13.170 --> 31:15.270 one of the big lessons learned that 31:15.270 --> 31:17.103 we've got out of the operational 31:17.103 --> 31:19.214 imperatives and we've talked about it 31:19.214 --> 31:21.610 and multiple panels already is that 31:21.620 --> 31:24.080 collaboration is critical , 31:24.090 --> 31:26.201 collaboration within the department , 31:26.201 --> 31:27.868 collaboration with industry , 31:27.868 --> 31:30.990 collaboration with the require urz the 31:31.000 --> 31:33.310 acquirers and the resources is is 31:33.310 --> 31:36.120 critical and even collaboration between 31:36.120 --> 31:38.231 the operational imperatives . So what 31:38.231 --> 31:41.680 we saw as the seven Oi teams scattered 31:41.680 --> 31:44.040 out and did their collaboration when we 31:44.040 --> 31:46.290 first brought the seven Oi teams back 31:46.290 --> 31:50.140 in for briefing , uh some of them were 31:50.140 --> 31:53.000 working on exactly the same things , so 31:53.000 --> 31:55.222 there's goodness there , so everybody's 31:55.222 --> 31:57.333 at least thinking alike , but there's 31:57.333 --> 31:59.500 some redundancy of effort that we need 31:59.500 --> 32:02.230 to prevent and and so that there was 32:02.230 --> 32:05.720 goodness to see that okay , we still 32:05.720 --> 32:07.942 have a gap and a seam over here between 32:07.942 --> 32:09.776 these oh eyes , but you guys are 32:09.776 --> 32:11.887 already working on closing that gap . 32:11.887 --> 32:14.053 That's good . But they're also working 32:14.053 --> 32:16.276 on closing that gap . Stop doing this , 32:16.276 --> 32:18.053 let them work on that . So that 32:18.053 --> 32:19.800 collaboration is key . It is a 32:19.800 --> 32:21.856 beautiful thing . If you think about 32:21.856 --> 32:25.710 that Venn diagram of the acquirers , 32:25.720 --> 32:29.160 the require ear's and the resources , 32:29.270 --> 32:31.830 you know , the more and more that we 32:31.830 --> 32:33.970 can bring that Venn diagram into a 32:33.970 --> 32:36.940 single cylinder of excellence , uh the 32:36.940 --> 32:39.390 better off , we'll be again Sprinkle 32:39.390 --> 32:41.390 over the top of that , the analytic 32:41.390 --> 32:43.501 capability that we need Sprinkle into 32:43.501 --> 32:45.612 that the solutions that industry will 32:45.612 --> 32:48.470 provide and and we are onto something 32:48.470 --> 32:51.640 that will bring us success So that to 32:51.640 --> 32:53.340 me is very exciting . 32:55.640 --> 32:58.630 And then lastly I'll just touch base on 32:58.640 --> 33:00.980 so you know what's next ? I don't I 33:00.980 --> 33:03.260 don't know . I imagine we'll use the 33:03.260 --> 33:05.780 term operational imperative for quite a 33:05.780 --> 33:09.000 while to come . I think as I mentioned 33:09.000 --> 33:12.350 we'll bring mobility in to the O eyes 33:12.370 --> 33:15.030 either as a separate Oi or in addition 33:15.030 --> 33:18.930 to an add on to oh I seven . Uh we've 33:18.940 --> 33:21.100 already had as mentioned before the 33:21.110 --> 33:23.550 missionary reviews with the secretary . 33:23.560 --> 33:26.370 Maybe E . W . Becomes its own Oi or it 33:26.370 --> 33:30.370 stays as a missionary review . Uh two 33:30.370 --> 33:34.340 simple me doesn't really matter what 33:34.340 --> 33:36.118 matters is that we continue the 33:36.118 --> 33:38.173 collaboration and the discussion and 33:38.173 --> 33:41.060 the conversation and the hard work to 33:41.060 --> 33:43.060 build those capability development 33:43.060 --> 33:46.700 plans to build those road maps that 33:46.700 --> 33:48.970 take us from today 33:50.910 --> 33:53.670 With getting capability in the hands of 33:53.670 --> 33:55.614 the joint warfighter as quickly as 33:55.614 --> 33:57.920 possible and then spiraling out of that 33:57.930 --> 34:00.340 into the full capability that we need 34:00.350 --> 34:03.860 later in this decade and into the 2030s . 34:03.870 --> 34:07.810 And that will be success . That is 34:07.810 --> 34:11.350 what winning is about with that . 34:12.200 --> 34:14.256 I would love to answer any questions 34:14.256 --> 34:15.256 that you have 34:20.480 --> 34:21.310 none . Okay , 34:37.080 --> 34:40.550 thank sir , thank you for your comments . 34:41.550 --> 34:44.890 Ed Jesperson Lockheed martin recently 34:45.100 --> 34:49.090 Secretary hicks conveyed in a memo , 34:49.090 --> 34:52.200 the uh executive responsibility for air 34:52.200 --> 34:54.256 base defense slight modification . I 34:54.256 --> 34:56.367 was wondering if you could comment on 34:56.367 --> 34:59.120 that as it relates to Oi five an air 34:59.120 --> 35:01.342 base defense . So are you talking about 35:01.342 --> 35:04.210 the secretary's acquisition authority 35:04.210 --> 35:08.010 bestowed on the Air Force for uh cruise 35:08.010 --> 35:10.232 missile defense of the homeland ? Yes . 35:10.232 --> 35:12.454 Okay thanks . Uh No I'm sorry . I can't 35:12.454 --> 35:16.320 comment . I know I can . No no nothing 35:16.320 --> 35:19.410 about it . So uh that is , I'll say 35:19.410 --> 35:22.560 philosophically uh that is probably 35:22.560 --> 35:25.580 step one uh is the acquisition 35:25.580 --> 35:27.802 authority for cruise missile defense of 35:27.802 --> 35:29.969 the homeland . Uh We are now obviously 35:29.969 --> 35:32.420 just starting to go , okay . How does 35:32.430 --> 35:36.420 uh how does A q 35:36.430 --> 35:38.640 get their arms around all the service 35:38.650 --> 35:40.761 efforts ? And and when you're talking 35:40.761 --> 35:42.761 about cruise missile defense of the 35:42.761 --> 35:44.817 homeland ? It's not just D . O . D . 35:44.817 --> 35:46.928 It's really whole of government . How 35:46.928 --> 35:48.983 do they get their arms around all of 35:48.983 --> 35:50.983 that acquisition effort ? So that's 35:50.983 --> 35:53.170 that work is ongoing . I would say the 35:53.180 --> 35:56.380 next logical step would be 35:57.760 --> 36:01.720 Acquisition Authority is one thing . Uh 36:01.730 --> 36:05.490 Do we want uh an executive agent 36:06.550 --> 36:10.280 for the operational izing of cruise 36:10.280 --> 36:12.860 missile defense of the homeland . Uh 36:12.870 --> 36:15.092 And I think that will be a conversation 36:15.092 --> 36:17.790 that will be brought up uh at the joint 36:17.790 --> 36:20.012 requirements oversight council with the 36:20.012 --> 36:22.130 Vice Chiefs and the vice chairman uh 36:22.140 --> 36:24.690 and probably soon to accompany that 36:24.690 --> 36:27.100 acquisition authority . Clearly NORAD 36:27.100 --> 36:29.620 North com has kind of the c two of the 36:29.620 --> 36:32.500 actual execution but there's gonna need 36:32.500 --> 36:36.080 to be in a dot mil pf organizing . How 36:36.080 --> 36:39.620 do we get from just the acquisition of 36:39.620 --> 36:43.480 capability to the dot 36:43.480 --> 36:46.420 mil pF side of how we're gonna organize 36:46.420 --> 36:49.700 train and equip to use that capability 36:49.740 --> 36:51.980 to hand it over the combatant commander 36:52.000 --> 36:54.111 to execute that capability . So those 36:54.111 --> 36:56.111 are the conversations I think we're 36:56.111 --> 37:00.070 gonna , we're gonna have now . I 37:00.270 --> 37:03.970 am very optimistic that as we 37:03.980 --> 37:05.980 define solutions for cruise missile 37:05.980 --> 37:08.360 defense of the homeland , that we will 37:08.360 --> 37:11.220 transport those solutions to base 37:11.220 --> 37:13.620 defense and you know , oh I five and 37:13.620 --> 37:15.830 how that morphs into the future force 37:16.350 --> 37:18.900 but it will be critical . Thank you for 37:18.900 --> 37:19.900 that question . 37:33.080 --> 37:36.590 That's quite question . Good afternoon , 37:36.590 --> 37:38.730 sir . So , uh just to talk about your 37:38.730 --> 37:40.786 agile combat employment , my name is 37:40.786 --> 37:42.730 rick with Floor Corporation . Uh , 37:42.730 --> 37:44.640 we're one of your contractors on 37:44.650 --> 37:46.730 several of the contract augmentation 37:46.730 --> 37:49.680 programs have catalog cab so 37:50.020 --> 37:53.090 also having been a civil engineer in 37:53.090 --> 37:56.290 the Air Force growing up during the the 37:56.290 --> 37:58.290 Cold War . And I remember the salty 37:58.290 --> 38:01.110 demo results for those of you are 38:01.120 --> 38:03.310 really old and can look that one up . 38:03.320 --> 38:06.700 Uh but where do you see industry 38:06.710 --> 38:09.450 playing into this and how we're going 38:09.450 --> 38:12.100 to move forward on getting these 38:12.100 --> 38:14.850 resilient bases . These outlying island 38:14.850 --> 38:16.850 hopping campaign as it as it were . 38:17.870 --> 38:19.870 Yeah . So thanks for the question . 38:19.870 --> 38:23.410 That's a that's a great one . which of 38:23.410 --> 38:26.300 course is speaker parlance for give me 38:26.300 --> 38:28.300 a second to think about my answer . 38:28.300 --> 38:32.200 Right , So I'll hit that in in 38:32.200 --> 38:34.256 several areas , you know , since you 38:34.256 --> 38:36.144 mentioned uh ce ce side of this ? 38:36.144 --> 38:38.500 Certainly there's a milk on element to 38:38.510 --> 38:41.300 base resiliency . Can I build extra 38:41.300 --> 38:43.710 runways ? Can I build runways that we 38:43.710 --> 38:45.821 can drop into that aren't necessarily 38:45.821 --> 38:48.260 fobs or mobs but we can drop in their 38:48.270 --> 38:51.200 gas up . How do I propose fuel weapons 38:51.200 --> 38:53.200 there etcetera ? So there's there's 38:53.200 --> 38:55.340 kind of that piece 38:56.680 --> 39:00.290 uh there is a base defense piece to 39:00.290 --> 39:03.090 this and certain systems that would 39:03.100 --> 39:06.230 either uh you know for a long time . 39:06.230 --> 39:08.452 We've talked about base defenses either 39:08.452 --> 39:10.508 inside the wire outside the wire and 39:10.508 --> 39:13.500 that distinction has blurred 39:14.130 --> 39:16.820 even as we're in Afghanistan and now is 39:16.830 --> 39:19.870 is not just blurred but kind of pushed 39:19.870 --> 39:21.981 off the map . So we will have to have 39:21.981 --> 39:24.640 that doctrinal discussion within the 39:24.640 --> 39:26.650 Department of Defense on who's 39:26.650 --> 39:28.650 responsible for what and how are we 39:28.650 --> 39:30.706 getting after ? It ? Certainly as we 39:30.706 --> 39:33.500 get into uh a cruise missile defense of 39:33.500 --> 39:35.500 the homeland , that might enlighten 39:35.500 --> 39:37.667 some of those conversations . But what 39:37.667 --> 39:39.778 does based defense of the future look 39:39.778 --> 39:42.510 like what our dispersal capabilities 39:42.520 --> 39:44.464 that are gonna be out there in the 39:44.464 --> 39:46.798 future ? Is there a place in the future . 39:46.798 --> 39:50.760 Force for uh platforms 39:50.770 --> 39:53.650 that are don't require 8000 ft of 39:53.650 --> 39:57.380 concrete . So things like high 39:57.380 --> 40:00.620 speed vertical takeoff and land uh E 40:00.620 --> 40:04.450 vitale both from a combat capability 40:04.450 --> 40:08.110 standpoint and or uh the 40:08.110 --> 40:11.850 ability to resupply infill ex fil 40:11.860 --> 40:15.430 uh and sustain the forces in the field 40:15.440 --> 40:17.720 again inside of the second island chain 40:17.720 --> 40:19.980 in a contested environment . So you may 40:19.980 --> 40:23.170 see things like that . And certainly uh 40:23.180 --> 40:25.570 we've been talking a lot about that 40:25.580 --> 40:29.150 capability . I think the answer is , is 40:29.160 --> 40:32.570 all of that . In addition to material 40:32.570 --> 40:35.660 and non material solutions for camo 40:35.660 --> 40:39.380 concealment , dispersion hardened , uh , 40:39.390 --> 40:41.750 hardening of bases that we currently 40:41.750 --> 40:43.917 have . Hardening of bases that we need 40:43.917 --> 40:46.180 to have and concepts of employment . 40:46.190 --> 40:48.300 Good news is the major commands both 40:48.300 --> 40:51.690 you safety and and uh uh in 40:51.700 --> 40:54.830 particular as well as Air combat 40:54.830 --> 40:56.774 command who is kind of showing the 40:56.774 --> 40:59.230 effort and kind of collating all of the 40:59.230 --> 41:01.790 thoughts from the the theater 41:01.800 --> 41:05.050 commanders on the Agile Combat 41:05.050 --> 41:08.720 Employment Con Ops uh , we're starting 41:08.720 --> 41:11.640 to hover on solutions that have a 41:11.650 --> 41:14.010 common centerpiece if you will of this 41:14.010 --> 41:16.930 is uh , this is the the agile Combat 41:16.930 --> 41:19.520 Employment kind of centerpiece with 41:19.530 --> 41:23.370 regional specificity for both . Pack 41:23.370 --> 41:25.710 off because different problem for pac 41:25.710 --> 41:28.380 calf certainly than it is for us Air 41:28.380 --> 41:30.650 forces in europe . So they'll have 41:30.660 --> 41:34.600 their own uh spice if you will on 41:34.610 --> 41:37.450 on a space . Uh and that's kind of 41:37.450 --> 41:39.394 where we're at where we're going . 41:39.740 --> 41:41.907 Hopefully that answers your question , 41:43.430 --> 41:47.350 which is speaker parlance for that 41:47.350 --> 41:51.110 wraps me up . I 41:51.110 --> 41:53.110 think I had a hand up in the back , 41:53.110 --> 41:56.790 nope , she's waving off anything else 41:57.470 --> 42:01.430 I will be around . So if you've got any 42:01.430 --> 42:03.910 other questions , comments , happy to 42:03.920 --> 42:05.960 feel them down here after . I don't 42:05.960 --> 42:08.110 have to leave for a flight for uh 42:08.120 --> 42:10.810 sometime so happy to chat later . Thank 42:10.810 --> 42:12.588 you for your attention , really 42:12.588 --> 42:14.866 appreciate it . Again , General Morris , 42:14.866 --> 42:14.940 thank you so much for the invitation .