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Welcome to Innovation rodeo 2022 . I am

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your host , Jason Sybil from the Air

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Force Security Forces Center , Air

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Force installation and mission support

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center and we are here to rodeo .

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That's right . It is innovation rodeo

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2022 live streaming from tech ports san

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Antonio And we are here in the best

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location in the world to bring our

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teams from across the enterprise

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together to pitch their ideas to the

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judges , dec

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ports center and arena is the heartbeat

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of ports saN Antonio's 1900 acre

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technology innovation campus . It is a

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national hub for innovation and

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strategic convergence by D . O . D .

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Industry , academia , community

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partners and other stakeholders located

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minutes away from Air Force I . M . S .

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C . Headquarters Tech Support provides

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an ideal echo system for matching

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individual talent to technology for our

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Air Force innovators . This state of

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the art facility shifts the needle

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forward for both san Antonio and the

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Air Force I MSC innovation Mission .

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Now before we meet this year's judges ,

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let's hear from the Air Force I . M . S .

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C . Commander , Major General John

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Allen , Good morning innovators ,

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Judges and viewers . We're coming to

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you live streaming from san Antonio

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texas . Welcome to our fourth annual

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innovation rodeo at the Air Force

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installation and Mission support Center .

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Um This is my first as the I . M . S .

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C . Commander . So it is particularly

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exciting for me to be a part of this .

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I'm sorry I'm not in this room , I'm on

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the road actually , but I I'm with you

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in spirit . Uh this is really , really

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important business for our Air Force .

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We have world class innovators all over

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our Air Force and the best , most

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important innovation in my view is the

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innovation that's happening closest to

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the problems we're trying to solve and

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the innovations that are brought in by

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the , by the great people that have the

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best vantage point of those of those

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problems . So we have eight Uh

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finalists down selected from 72 really

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great ideas that we're looking at this

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week . We have $1 million dollars

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waiting to help prototype

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beta test and better understand the

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very best of those of these eight

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innovation ideas and

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hopefully to move to scaling around our

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Air Force if that's what our beta test

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and prototype says is the right thing

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to do . So I'm thrilled that we're

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doing this . I'm thrilled to be a part

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of it . Thank you for the time being

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here and being a part of what we're

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doing this week . I look forward to a

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wonderful , wonderful rest of the week

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innovative way . Thank you General

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Allen and innovate away . Indeed , I am

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your host . But more importantly ,

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we've got six judges on the stage with

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me and it is now my pleasure and honor

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to introduce them to you from Air Force

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I M S . C . MS J . D Perk . Thanks so

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much , Jason . Good afternoon as you

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mentioned , JD 30 here , Chief

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Innovation Officer at A F I M S C . B .

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Personally . I'm excited to be here

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because this is the end a week . A

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culmination of the hard work for these

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eight individuals to showcase all of

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the great effort and time and things

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that they've learned about . Not only

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themselves , but their innovation can't

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wait to see what they've got to bring

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to us today from A F I M . S . C .

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Colonel kelly Sam . Thanks Jason I to J

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D M excited to be here . I'm the Vice

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Commander at A F I M . S . C . And I am

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just really impressed with the energy

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and the ideas of not only the

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presenters today , but the teams of

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airmen and guardians that are behind

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them . So let's get it on from A F I M .

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S . C . Mr Samuel Graves , Good

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afternoon . I am the Director of

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installation support at A . F I M . S .

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C . And you know , I'm a lifelong

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resource manager , financial manager in

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the Air Force and other places . So the

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idea of innovation as a way to reduce

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costs or do things smarter faster

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better . Really kind of hits home to me .

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So , I'm really looking forward to this

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afternoon from the Air Force Security

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Forces Center Mr Gerard Jolivette .

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Good afternoon . I'm too excited to be

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here . I've become familiar with a

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number of the pictures that we're going

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to receive this afternoon and as the

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general said , from 72 to this small

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number . I'm excited and actually look

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forward to it . So like I said , let's

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get it on . All right . Let's get it on

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from the Air Force Services center

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Colonel Carolyn annex . It is great to

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be up here with these teammates and I'm

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excited to see with the young airmen

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young . I say young from my perspective

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from the installations bringing up so

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we can look at it from an enterprise

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level across the Air Force so that the

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services center as we help folks ,

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airmen's families guardians globally .

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I'm interested in seeing how this goes

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for . Super excited . Thank you . And

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last but certainly not least from the

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Air Force Services Center Chief Master

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Sergeant Edgar Castillo , Good

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afternoon , Super excited to be here as

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well . The SCL for the services center

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super excited to see their pitches in a

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tough time with all the resources

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challenges that we're having interested

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to see what they have to pitch .

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Excellent . We're excited as well . JD

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they had a very interesting week . Can

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you tell us a little bit about what

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kind of went on the last few days

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the globe across the enterprise ,

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different portfolios , different

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statuses and they came together on

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monday with some professional trainers

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to teach them as one individual said

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essentially lost , decided not to do

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how Air Force breaks anymore . I need

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to learn to really do how to pitch . So

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they spent a lot of time really not

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only perfecting their pitch abilities ,

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perfecting and working on some of the

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pieces and parts of their pitch and

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whether it's scalable who their stake

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hold , So really digging into what

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they're about to share with us to

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perfect it to make it as good as it can

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be for this really large audience . So

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that has been a week long effort

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culminating here this afternoon . I'm

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excited to hear their pitches . I know

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you all are excited to hear their pitch

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is now that we've heard a little bit

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about how this week went . We actually

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had cameras following around from

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earlier this week . So let's take a

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look on the screen and see exactly what

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they went through building up to

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innovation , 2022 .

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The really interesting thing is that

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the training is really designed to make

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the air and feel comfortable and remove

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those insecurities and any barriers

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ahead of making that final pitch as a

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sport team . We're here to make the

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contestants feel much more comfortable

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and really make them feel at ease when

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they're presenting . I realize that's

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not a question that could happen .

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There are a number of functional

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experts here and subject matter experts

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to help the innovators develop their

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ideas and their pitches ahead of the

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big day on friday .

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You know , we get innovations pushed

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through our career field , everyday

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security forces , everybody's trying to

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make things better . So it's really ,

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really a great opportunity to help push

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things through that can make a big

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difference for our career field and

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stepping out of your comfort zone , you

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know , you want , you want to be able

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to talk to people if you're not very

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comfortable with that , you want to be

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able to be stand up in front of people ,

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be articulate and be able to voice what

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you're trying to sell and get it out

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there in a fashionable manner .

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Personal goal is really , for me

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personally , is to highlight the team ,

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their effort , this project that we're

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working at Eglin , but also to show

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that it can be replicated across other

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bases , centers and even match comes

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and Air force level um , requirements

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step forward . Just put your idea

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forward and just push it as far and as

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hard as you can and if it fails , it

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fails , but you learn from it and it

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just , it'll open up another door as

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well .

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Alright , we are backstage here at Tech

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Support Center and Arena import SAn

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Antonio live streaming from backstage .

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So we've got the dressing room's all

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set up here for our contestants are

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eight contestants who are getting ready

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to pitch to these judges before they do

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though , we want to just kind of peek

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in and see what they're thinking . So

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let's go in here and check out the

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first set of contestants that are up .

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Hey and they are up and ready to go for ,

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hey guys , we got Brandon Harris and we

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got chaplain PJ Werner here , Brandon ,

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how you feeling ? I'm feeling great ,

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it's been a great week of training .

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I'm ready to kick off this rodeo ? You

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are kicking it off Indeed . Innovation

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rodeo 2022 . You're the first member up .

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Do you feel prepared after this week of

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of coaching and training to to give

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your pitch ? I do , I do , I do feel

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prepared . I'm a little bit worried

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about the Q and A . From the judge .

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Okay , well I was just up there with

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them . They're all very nice . I assure

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you . So they'll go easy chaplain

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Werner PJ here , how are you feeling ?

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Okay ? Excellent . And are you ready to

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give your pitch ? You got the

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butterflies a little bit . Amen to that

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P . J . All right , Thanks so much

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Brandon . You're actually the first one

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up . So let's get you out there and

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pitch to the judges .

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Brandon . We can't wait to hear what's

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going on with you come on out

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Similar to this image of the Hubble

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telescope on your left hand side . When

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we look at contracting data , we see

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hundreds of data points throughout the

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acquisition lifecycle to manage all of

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those data points were required to fill

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out a workload tracker every day . But

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this means that we won't be spending as

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much time visiting the construction

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site or we won't be spending as much

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time developing the body armor

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requirements . Instead , we're spending

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our time manually filling out a

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workload tracker even though this

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information is found in an acquisition

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system . Well what if there was an

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automated solution , a solution that

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will take all of these data points ,

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combine them into one website

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accessible , not just to contracting

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but also to our mission partners

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similar to this image of the Hubble

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telescope . A solution that will

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zoom in on these data points and allow

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contracting and our mission partners

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the ability to get a better insight

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into their acquisition acquisition ,

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visibility or act . This is that

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solution next side .

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Act . This removes the time that

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contracting personnel spend manually

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filling out a workload tracker by

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creating a consolidated database . It's

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gonna combine seven legacy systems .

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It's going to eliminate the need for

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manual inputs and it's gonna repurpose

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contracting efforts back to the things

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that matter the most you'll see here .

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This is an example of what an activist

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dashboard would look like . The column

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on the left hand side . Those are the

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common reports we look at when we're

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tracking the acquisition throughout its

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life cycle . Next slide ,

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The need is there I surveyed hundreds

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of contracting personnel 89% hate their

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current workload tracker . People are

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spending four hours on average every

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week filling these things out ,

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91% want an automated tracker .

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In fact , one of the comments I got

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back from the survey was filling out

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manual trackers is similar to rabbits .

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Multiplying we're creating trackers

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just to track other trackers . The

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momentum is there as well , 87% . Say

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my idea is a viable option . Probably

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the biggest concern was they think it's

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too complex . But if you can fill out a

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spreadsheet , you know how to do charts

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and graphs , then you can use act this .

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It's at the unit level . We are

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currently implementing activists at the

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50th contracting squadron and it's a

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proven concept . One of the seven

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systems is already live right now . You

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can go out there to the website and see

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this data for yourself . My idea is to

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scale this up , take all seven of these

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acquisition systems , combine them into

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one database and then publish it for

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everyone . Next slide ,

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as far as stakeholders are concerned

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activities aligns with A F I C C and A

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F I C C . Business Intelligence teams

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initiative to optimize our workload

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trackers . Also A F I M . S . C .

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Innovation Team also sees the value

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added in implementing actress . But

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the main stakeholders are any unit out

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there that use contracting for their

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purchasing next slide .

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I'm asking for 2-6 weeks for startup

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test and launch of axis . I'm also

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asking for access to all contracting

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unit data . Now I personally have

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access to all these seven systems but I

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just have it for my unit alone so I

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would need to get access to all the

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contracting unit data just so we can

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make it one consolidated database and

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I'm asking for $349,000 . 100 and

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82,000 the first year and 100 and

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67,000 post year one

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You're gonna hear seven other amazing

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ideas today . With active is each one

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of them can become a reality faster

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because you're going to be giving that

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time back to the contracting officers ,

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allowing them to do what they do best .

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Thank you . Do you have any questions

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for him ? Thanks so much for that .

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I'll go ahead and kick it off . Thanks

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for breaking down the numbers what

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you're asking for in that level of

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detail as somebody who's probably gonna

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help be responsible for a winner and

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the sustainment tail judges . And I

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have already talked about this when you

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say post year one that $187,000 is that

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per year or is that one and done ? Talk

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to me a little bit about that . Yes ,

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ma'am . Think of post year one as a

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statement . So first year 1 81 182 and

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then 1 67 every year afterwards . I get

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the feeling that if we're gonna go the

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first year , it would be good to have a

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second year available as well .

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I have a question . So as we , as

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you gain all the other units in . Right ,

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let's say we get 87 units , will that

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tail end increase the year on after ?

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So the first year , you'll have two or

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three units ? Let's say that the second

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year you have 40 units , will that tell

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in support costs go up or is just 1

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87 all the way . It's 1 87

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the first year chief and that will be 1

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67 every year in the out years . I have

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a question as well . Um Brandon , is

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there a concern ? A security concern

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aggregating all that data together ? Uh

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From the department perspective , from

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a department perspective , I'm going

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off of what the one system is already

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doing the once it's already been out

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there , there's been no security

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concerns . When I talk to the

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developers of that one system that's

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already published with the similarity

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to act this . If there's any concern

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then that would actually be able to be

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controlled by us . Say for instance ,

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if there's contractors , you don't want

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to see that data , we can easily shut

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down access to those specific groups if

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we want to . Yes , ma'am . Right . And

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I'm up next . Are you familiar with the

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uh A T . O . Authority to operate

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process ? And how does it apply here ?

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In respects to the complexity of

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gaining that authority ? Yes . Uh Sir .

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So I have talked to a F I . C . C about

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the A . T . O . Process and in our

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discussions because the servers that I

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want to use are already 80 Oh ,

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approved . There is no A T . O . Issue

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with this . Hey Brandon .

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Great job . Tell me a little bit about

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the team that's supporting you . I have

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my champion is Colonel Karen Landell ,

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I think she was on the stage in 2019 .

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So she's been very helpful and she's

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been a great supporter of this . I have

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um the A . F I C C um Roger Western

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Meyer who has also been a big supporter

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of this , and I have Peter Hermann from

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the A . F I C C . Business intelligence

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team , who is also we've we've talked a

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lot about the concept and the idea

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behind this practice . So if it's

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implemented , how would you take the

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databases proliferate them across the

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Air Force . So they sound a little bit

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like you have the knowledge just

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walking through that a little bit . So

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I spent a year building the algorithm

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in the background , every one of these

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seven systems are siloed . So my idea

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is to download them . Part of the money

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will go towards a contractor and the

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contractor who understands how the

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database works , download it , take my

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algorithm , combine it into one and

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then upload it for everybody to see .

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So in the beginning , yes , phase one

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would be okay . We have to go in twice

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a day because we want the most current

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data , we'll have to go in twice a day

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to download it and then upload it . In

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the future we are looking at maybe

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let's do a body , let's automatically

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do that . But for right now , yes , You

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said you've uh you've implemented it

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for one system . Yes , sir , tested it .

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What would you learn from that , that

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test for that implementation place ? I

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just talked to the developers the other

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day about this ? I learned that that

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one system right now has on average

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1500 users , 1500 users to 2000 users

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every day are already using one system .

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So that tells me that there is a demand

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out there that people like what this

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product is doing , it's easy for them

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to use . So I'm just thinking , wait

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till we get all seven in there . And

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have you aggregated ? You talked about

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four hours per person per week ? I

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didn't see you on the charts like as I

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estimate the 1 67 K per year . What's

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the savings ? What's the projected

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savings ? Let's say you get to the x

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number of base level contracting

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Squadrons or whatever . Maybe . What

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have you done any of that aggregation

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yet or ? Yes , sir . Well in savings

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it's about 1.3 million because when we

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looked at , we did some assumptions

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about how many hours , four hours

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expands . It's about 20,000 hours a

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year . And then when we look at a GS 12

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and we expand that out , it's about 1.3

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million in savings . And when I say

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savings , it's not that this is money

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going back to the Air Force , we're

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repurposing those hours ? We're

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repurposing 20,000 hours back to the

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contracting officers and the

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contracting specialist so they can do

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their job . One of the things for me ?

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I mean obviously interested in the um I

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naturally thought , hey aren't there

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contractors that do this and you

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mentioned , hey part of this would be

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towards a contractor to support , is it

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is this sort of someone dash boarding ?

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But the accumulation of data systems

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into something that's a more manageable

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um process . Is that something that's

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proliferating proliferating outside of

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your organization , the D . O . D .

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Where you could just import it ? Yes

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sir . So there are , it is

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proliferating and I looked at other

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systems out there and I guess the

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takeaway from mine is mine's agile

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because these other systems they're

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looking for uh oh they don't have all

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seven of these systems right now . None

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of the systems have these that I looked

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at and they're looking instead of uh

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weeks , they're looking at months , two

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years to add these . So I'm trying to

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get this out faster quicker and if you

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have , oh I have an eight system , I

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can bring that in in weeks where then

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they have to go through all the process ,

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paperwork approval for those different

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types of systems

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chief for . So it's obviously gonna

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save time for the C . E . O . S . And C .

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S . S . Right , what about the customer

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will give me an option to go in as a

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customer that's doing the purchase or

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to go in and see what the status is .

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Yes , absolutely chief . So I look at

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the end users like acquisition are the

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end users for us , the contracting

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specialist but then it's the visibility

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that is for you as the leader . If

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there's taskers that come down , you

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can easily go to this database and

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there's already training out there

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about how to develop dashboards or

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everything . The idea would be also to

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give you a standardized template and

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say , okay , these are the , these are

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the how we want this to look , do you

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like this ? No ? Okay , build your own ,

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you can build your own if you want so

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that you as the end user could see that

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the real time tracking of your

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acquisitions , thank you Brandon on

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behalf of all airmen and guardians and

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installation emission support portfolio .

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Thank you so much for the time and

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effort that it took you on your own to

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build us , bring us to us the passion

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that brought you to this stage today

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and then all the time and effort that

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you put in this week as well . Thank

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you so much . Oh you

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guys what a start to innovation rodeo

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2022 . I mean I know that was the first

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pitch but I'm all in like business

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intelligence software . That's the

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quantum leap forward with that the

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service needs right JD I mean that's

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what we're looking for for innovation

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rodeo . What did you think of that

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pitch ? So we've had a chance to get to

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know Brandon over the last couple of

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days and talking about this system and

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the question comes up , why aren't we

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doing this already ? So super proud of

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Brandon for identifying this need

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having the the smarts to go after it as

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well , right ? Organically within his

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team . So I think this is just a great

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example of organic innovation rising up

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to the rodeo , super excited about that .

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Absolutely . He had his numbers down .

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I mean all of his answers to your guys

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questions were right on point . Mr

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grable , you kind of had a had a pretty

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good conversation with him . What do

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you think of that ? I liked it . I mean

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we see we see these kinds of things in

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industry , the idea of bringing it into

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the Air Force and in particular the

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contracting . It makes a lot of sense .

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And I personally liked the idea of

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using we know its cost avoidance . You

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know , you're you're basically moving

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from , you know , hours used to do

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something you can automate and the idea

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of using those hours to do better

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things for you know , customers for

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warfighters if you will certainly

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resonates with me . Well , we love to

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say work smarter , not harder . Right ?

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And I think business intelligence

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software , that's the direction to go .

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Here's the good news . That's pitch one .

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We got seven more awesome pitches to

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hear for innovation rodeo 2020 to our

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next picture is chaplain P . J . Werner .

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He is back there . He's ready to go J .

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D . You ready to hear it ? All right ,

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let's do it . Here comes P . J . Werner

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august 2018 I got the

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call that every chaplain fears there's

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been a suicide over the weeks that

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followed , I got to know the airman's

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family and friends and through them I

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got a full picture of a young man who

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was loved , appreciated but he was

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hiding his emotional pain , silently

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suffering to the point where he felt

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like he had no choice is when you feel

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like you have no choices , you feel

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hopeless , I'm chaplain Warner and

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today you have the opportunity to give

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better choices to our airmen . Next

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slide please . The D . O . D . Suicide

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event report has shown consistently

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that in the months leading up to a

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suicidal event , there is usually a

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relationship workplace or legal

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stressor . Our current suicide

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prevention has been amazing and

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normalizing our ability to talk about

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suicide . It is however , by definition

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reactive and requires an outside party

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to see the depressive symptoms and get

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the person to a helping agency .

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Meanwhile , the University of

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Pennsylvania has been unlocking

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strength-based tools for the past 30

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years and the Harvard Business Review

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has been saying for the past 10 years

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that what our young people and leaders

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such as yourself needs is emotional

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intelligence . We have the knowledge

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that proactively addresses airman's

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problems . What we can do now is

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package them in a way that airmen can

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internalize . That is why my idea is to

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give them an interactive pathway to

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these skills through a choose your own

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adventure video game , a video game

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will allow them to see these scenarios

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in a safe environment and on screen see

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choices they might not normally think

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of , they would get to see that their

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choices do have consequences and that

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tough times do pass the ideal audience

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for this would be pre accession

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recruits . People excited to learn

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about the Air force they've just joined

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and we can see choose your own

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adventure , still on streaming

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platforms , so we now know that while

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there is a vintage factor , it's still

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relevant . Next slide please .

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The alpha version named branches is

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currently being developed here in san

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Antonio in it . The player goes through

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the storyline until they get to a

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scenario and make a choice . That

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choice opens up a new branch in the

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storyline towards a new topic and new

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education . While the alpha version

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only has a few topics in the future ,

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we can add anything simply by putting

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in a new choice at a scenario juncture ,

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leading to new options for education .

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Next slide please , I have shown my

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proof of concept version to all walks

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of life and the overwhelming feedback I

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received was that it was viable and

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dressed a need from there , I went to

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leadership and subject matter experts

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across the Joint force looking for

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someone to tell me that my idea was

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dumb so that way I didn't have to work

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on it anymore . Unfortunately , they

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have all loved it and given me their

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total support to continue working next

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slide . That is why I have built a team

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of subject matter experts to help us

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get the best tools and training after

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our Airmen's number one topics . Next

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slide please While making the alpha

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version . I learned that while I have a

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lot of experience playing video games ,

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I don't have as much experience writing

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though . That is why today I am asking

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for $150,000 to hire a video game

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content writer . Someone who can take

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my team's knowledge , expertise and

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passion and translate that into a

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compelling narrative accessible to our

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airmen From there . We'll have a beta

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version and we can use the other

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$150,000 for web hosting allowing that

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beta version to be used by anyone that

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asks from there , we will get large

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scale feedback and a one Z at the

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pentagon by policy . The owners of

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Suicide Prevention have said they can

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take that data and then take this

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entire project under their larger

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umbrella . So today choose your

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adventure . Be the ones that said yes

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to giving our future Airmen better

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choices . I'm excited to see that

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future and to hear your questions .

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P . J . Thanks so much . I appreciate

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20 Adventure have always been a huge

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fan that I appreciate that the vintage

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may still be relevant , huge fan of

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that piece of this application . If you

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could talk to me a little bit about the

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150 K . And development sounds like

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it's being presented as a one time cost ?

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But imagine , imagine it will continue

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to evolve and develop . Do you see

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future costs and development as well ?

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Or do you really feel like that 1 50

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will get us where we need to go and

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maybe there's an organic opportunity to

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change that in the future ? What do you

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think ? I think that while the money is

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going to definitely get us set up ,

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it's going to depend on you and leaders

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such as yourself , on what content we

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had , because we will need to hire more

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writers to expand that content . Thank

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you . Great question . P . J . I have a

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question . Great job by the way , I

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love your energy behind your whole idea .

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Um you've targeted um the earliest

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session , so young airmen and guardians .

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What about us ? What about the leaders

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um vintage ? What about vintage people ?

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Um that this problem doesn't escape us

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as well . What are your thoughts have ?

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What have you thought ? I am so excited

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you asked that question , ma'am .

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Because what you're describing is my ,

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my 100 m target . My long term goals is

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for this to then move up to R . O . T .

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C . Let's say . And then finally to

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leadership to be able to have the same

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language as our young um Airmen as

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well ? I would love us all to be

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speaking that same strength based

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language . Can you talk , can you

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talk a little bit about how you

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incentivize what's the , what's the

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thought for ? Um , you know , hey , you

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know , go do the video game . I can

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imagine a couple of things . One is ,

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you know , it's required which has its

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benefits and drawbacks and one is that

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you just invite people to it in which

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case it's got to offer something . You

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know , it's probably not going to be

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flying dragons and stuff and maybe it

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will be . But can you talk a little bit

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about the incentives that will

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encourage people to go ? Because part

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part of it must be , you have to have

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an open mind to step into this and and

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then choose the adventure and learn

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from it . That's an amazing question .

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I'm so glad you asked it because that

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was probably the number one reason why

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I thought our procession recruits would

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be the easiest incentive from there .

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Probably the best idea I've been given

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is that at the end if you've unlocked

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enough endings , you get some kind of

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certification , something that then

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they can show their leader something

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they can put on as an E . PR bullet .

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So you thought you think the incentive

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for the newest sessions , what is the

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incentive ? Is it ? Hey , if you want

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to put your paperwork in , you got to

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go do this . So that's the incentive or

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is there something more like what are

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your thoughts around it ? I understand

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that yes that that is my in general

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thought process . Not that it's

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required purely optional but their

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excitement to see the Air force to

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experience the Air Force to get a leg

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up and maybe even have some of those

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tools going into B . M . T . Which is ,

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let's be honest , a stressful situation

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and they would want to have that leg up

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over their peers chapel .

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Uh First off I want to acknowledge your

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passion . It's very obvious that you

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care a lot about this program . Uh So

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do we trust me ? Uh You've asked for

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300 K . What's your baseline for

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determining what your costs were And

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talk a little bit if you don't mind

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about sustainment cost . I'm so excited

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to answer that question because I was

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able to get that through this process .

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That part of the innovation rodeo .

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They connected us with the resource

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management branch and through them we

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did a preliminary analysis and they did

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so much work for me that I had no basis

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on how to find those numbers . And they

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did they went after it and they gave me

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those numbers . And have you thought

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about the sustainment piece at all ?

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This a statement piece ? Yes . That if

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we their predictive analysis would be

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that 150,000 every year just for the

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web hosting . Okay thanks so much .

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Thank you Chaplin great job job . I'm

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sorry . Um a lot of passion . Will

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that tail end cost or the sustainment

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costs go up as we start going from

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sessions to from then listed to the R .

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O . T . C . Two and then into the

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actual active duty members Garden

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reserve . Will that go up potentially

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Chief ? That's a great question . I'm

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sorry I will get you that answer .

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Thank you Jacqueline . I think you did

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a great job . This is a big problem .

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It's a nationwide problem quite frankly .

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And so I'm curious on a two part thing

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one when you say the folks you spoke to

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for feedback and survey were interested

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right they wanted since they didn't

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have a game to prototype explain how

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you , it was it a hey I'm gonna make

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this game , you'd love to play it . And

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then secondly how are you able to

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partner with industry universities ?

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The college is that you've been working

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with for both the students , maybe even

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veterans long term because we've got a

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problem there . And how do you see that

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tying in . So two parts there ? Amazing

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questions . The first one I'm gonna

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brag a little bit that actually what I

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did was I built a preliminary game

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purely in power point but they got to

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click a button , they got to go through

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a plot line , they got to see a story

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and they got to see different endings .

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So they I was told that they got a

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fairly full view on what I was looking

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for . As far as the second question ?

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I've been networking ? I've been

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looking for all those kinds of answers

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and I'm excited for this process . I

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think it's going to allow my

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information to get out there and I can

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connect to a lot more people in

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universities , in civilian sectors to

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be able to get the best content and I

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would offer to don't limit it to that

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federal agencies . I just came from

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another federal agency and they're

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struggling with the very same scourge

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that the D . O . D . Does and sometimes

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we think about this as a service

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related thing or D . O . D . But you

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can , you can imagine it's a problem

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everywhere . So other federal agencies

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maybe doing something like this to our

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considering it . Um , so cool . Thank

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you . Thanks so much for your passion .

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As you've heard from the judges today .

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They may not know that you actually

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found out about the innovation rodeo

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because of your passion and your

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persistence . You were knocking down

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doors . You're like , who can help me ?

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Who's here for me and it's really what

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brought you here today and it resonates

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in your story and in your pitch .

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Thanks for all your hard work that

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brought you here today .

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All right , Judges Two down . I don't

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know how we're gonna get through six

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more . That's a hard decision to make

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after pitches like that . Don't you

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agree ? All right , well let's check

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and see what's going on with the rest

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of the pitch teams in the back , Jason ,

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can you share us ? What's going on back

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there ? Okay , so we are back here

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backstage at Tech Support center and

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arena in ports san Antonio . We've got

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our first two pitches are down . We've

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got our next teams ready to go right

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behind this door as we continue

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innovation , rodeo 2022 . So let's

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let's head on in and check on them and

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see how they're doing here . All right ,

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here we go . We are in here with Craig .

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Red and Lieutenant Colonel Adam . Wally .

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Wallace , Craig . How're you feeling

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feeling good , ready to go . Okay . Do

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you feel prepared having been coached

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all week ? You feel prepared for this

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to go pitch the judges , I do feel they

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have us in a good place . Okay ,

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excellent . Anybody watching the

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livestream , you want to give a shout

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out to you and say hi to just all the

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Civil engineering squadron back home .

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Alright , alright . Ce . Okay , Wally ,

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how are we feeling fantastic . Okay ,

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you feel prepared ? You got butterflies

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at all ? All right , A lot of energy .

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Ready too much Red bull in there .

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We've seen you pounding the Red bull

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during rehearsal . So All right . Here

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we go . Okay , judges , I think that

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craig is ready to come pitch . What do

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you think ? J . D . Civil engineer ,

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Friend Craig . Bring them out .

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It's a beautiful day in the south

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pacific you're stationed at a forward

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operating base tasked with maintaining

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the airfield as you go about your daily

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routine suddenly alarm sound . The base

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is under attack after all the smoke

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clears . Everyone rushes to the

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airfield to find the airmen that were

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out completing their daily duties .

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After the last medevac leaves you ask

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yourself , what can we do better ? What

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can we do to have less airmen in harm's

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way ? And the answer is autonomy .

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Autonomous vehicles reduce the number

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of airmen required to complete their

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tasks such as sweeping , fahd removing

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snow mowing and other daily routines .

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This these tasks can be completed with

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a single airman operating multiple

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pieces of equipment slide

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every day we deal with multiple issues

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on the airfield . From thought to bird

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aircraft strike hazard to simple human

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error . No longer will taxiway lights

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be hit because they were under snow and

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could not be seen . The precision

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guidance of our GPS system assures us

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that objects can be avoided even if

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they can't be seen . The same

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technology allows us to operate at off

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peak hours and even at night by

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installing this technology on standard

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equipment , we're able to utilize this

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equipment without the GPS guidance . In

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manual mode . Should the need arise ,

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slide through the first round of

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testing , we have proven that

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autonomous vehicles are both safe and

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accepted . We have developed equipment

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that follows a pinpoint GPS path based

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both on our current G . I . S .

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Information system as well as a path

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that can be developed by an operator .

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We're able to detect and avoid new

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obstacles such as animals or sinkholes

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as they arise . We're also able To

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perform emergency maneuvers such as

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exit , a controlled area movement and

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then resume task . Once the emergency

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is cleared . All of this is done with

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varying less than 3" from the original

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intended path slide

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through the first five phases of

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testing . We had zero instances where

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the equipment did not operate as it was

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intended After every phase , we

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received a comprehensive report on the

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results of that testing . During the

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final phase , we even had a civil

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engineering airmen operate the

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equipment on the airfield slide please .

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Several civil engineering squadrons and

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multiple other organizations have

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reached out to us to gain more

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information on our research . Some have

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even traveled to our base to view it

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for themselves . Slide please .

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There was a time not long ago where the

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thought of an unmanned aircraft was

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simply absurd . Today . It's

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commonplace in today's Air Force time

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is a valuable commodity for the airmen

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autonomous vehicles . Give the Airmen

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more time to complete complex duties as

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well as keep them out of harm's way .

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Our research shows a $1.2 million

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dollar return on investment in the

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first five years by installing this

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technology on our existing equipment .

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Today , I'm here to ask for $1 million

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dollars for continued research and

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development . This would include three

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autonomous vehicles at two base

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locations to be put into daily

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operations , giving you an immediate

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return on your investment .

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Thank you questions . Great . Thanks so

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much . I'll open it up to the panel ,

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see if anybody has any questions . I

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think I have a question . It might be a

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little complicated , I'm trying to

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understand it . Right . So 1.2 mil for

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six vehicles to bases . Right ,

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Is that gonna be multiplied ? Let's say

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the Air Force adopts this . Right . So

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is that gonna be multiplied times x

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amount of bases ? And it's taken us

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five years to get the return on

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investment . So is that 1.2 mil Just

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initial because of all the testing

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that's increasing the cost or is that

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literally what's going to cost us for

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every six vehicles moving forward ?

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That's a great question . That would be

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the initial cost and that is the 1.2

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mil return on investment is based on

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putting it on existing equipment and

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yes , that would be a per based return

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on that same time frame . Thank you .

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It's returned not cost . That's correct .

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That is correct . That makes sense .

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Yeah . So , so it's not the cost

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industry utilizing uh ,

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autonomy to the extent that you've got

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a perspective of its utility for what

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you've proposed . Are you on the

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leading edge of the autonomy use along

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the applications that you've discussed

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right now . I feel we're on the leading

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edge , we've reached out to the F A . A .

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And other governing authorities and

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right now no one is putting autonomy on

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the airfield that we're aware of . Um

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So we're kind of trying to blaze the

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way and open up a path for that . I

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have a question craig , What's the

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training tale that goes to this ? So

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that not only the person operating

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distantly the vehicle , but also

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leadership and comfort and all of that .

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So the human side , That's a great

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question . Um The vehicle itself is

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very easy to operate and can be done

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from a standard app or a laptop

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computer . Um This is it's very easy to

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train , it's a user friendly interface .

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Very easy and it can be taught on

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multiple levels and you can have

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multiple devices that you would turn on

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and activate for different levels of

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leadership to be able to control these

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vehicles . There's a there's a piece of

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me that would think that autonomous

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vehicles off the airfield would be

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easier than on the airfield . Have you

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looked at that ? I mean , you talk

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about pretty much strictly on the

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airfield already looked at , you know ,

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outside the flight line . We have

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looked at both the equipment and

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technology that we're testing is larger

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scale equipment . So it's meant for

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more airfield , bigger areas that you

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may need . Um we're pulling a 15 ft

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batwing mower at the time behind it .

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We have looked into other technology to

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do the parade field and things like

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that . Where this equipment is just too

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big craig . Can you talk to me a little

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bit about the tech and what it is that

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you're actually testing and what

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results would be successful for you ?

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What would you call success ? Success

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would be going out after we prescribe

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our path and having this equipment go

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out and do it flawlessly . Uh , if the

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emergency comes in we would perform our

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exit seem a maneuver and then be able

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to restart and go right back out where

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we were with no instances . And today

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we've been very successful . Let me

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just make sure I won't understand one

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part . I love your idea . I think it's

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great . I'm impressed that you've

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already gotten it through so many

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testing phases . As you look at the

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education piece , the training piece

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and at each installation . How does

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that all come together ? I'm sorry I

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had trouble here . How does , how does

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the education , the training and the

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finances all come together at the

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installation ? Help me understand if

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that's a installation bill or if this

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once it's funded at the enterprise

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level , the wings , the installations

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will receive the support and ability to

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do it while I understand on the flight

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line , potentially in other areas .

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Grass snow LRS capabilities and

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warehouses . I mean I see a lot of

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functionality in this across the Air

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Force and savings . I'm just trying to

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figure out how it applies at the

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installation level , what that support

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would look like . Sure , the

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installation for the equipment of the

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technology itself would be part of the

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contractual package for the equipment

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on the tractor or or the piece of

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equipment . The funding itself , I know

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equipment is funded through C

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Enterprises , so for retrofitting that

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we would still be purchasing standard

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off the shelf , equipment that is

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usually bought by a larger contract for

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our civil engineering squadron's and

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then we can retrofit that equipment

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onto whatever is decided to be

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purchased by the Air Force is going to

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maintain the software that drives that

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would be through a contract that is

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through the manufacturer . How

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difficult is it to pull a , you know ,

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one of the packages off of one vehicle

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and apply it to another vehicle . Let's

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say you go from one type of tractor to

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another type of tractor . Is it

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reasonably easy to move from one to the

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other ? It is um this technology , the

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company we've started working with uses

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off the shelf actuators and things that

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can be bought anywhere . Um And the

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beauty of this program is , it can be

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put on any size vehicle . Um The

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parameters are then programmed into the

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computer system for the center line of

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the tractor . How wide what piece of

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equipment you're towing , whether it be

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a sweeper mower and then it translates

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that and knows to set up its past based

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on that . So it can be dismounted from

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one , put on another and then reset the

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parameters in your program . Thank you .

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One last question if I may uh stage

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five , what what has been the biggest

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challenge and what is the money that's

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that's keeping you from getting across

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the line or because you're you're quite

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along the way right right now it is the

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funding that's keeping us from moving

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forward . Um in the very beginning we

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had a lot of hurdles to jump getting

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people comfortable with the idea of

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autonomous vehicles on the airfield

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through our phases of testing . I feel

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we've achieved that . Thank you . Okay ,

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thanks so much for your time and effort

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to bring you here again . You can see

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the passion come through in your idea

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and what I love most about it is your

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intro , right ? Talk about really

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making the mission , the rubber meeting

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the road and how we can help our airmen .

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Not only safety wise but getting white

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space back into their lives . Really

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appreciate that part of your pitch to

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us today . Thanks for all you do We

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really appreciate it . Thank you very

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much . I appreciate your time .

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Judges , judges the name of this show

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is innovation , rodeo 2022 nothing to

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mrs innovation like robot tractors .

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Alright , robot lawnmowers . I'm all

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about it . Listen , I got one of those

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little Roomba things at my house and

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vacuums . I got four dogs and that is

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that but on a huge scale . I absolutely

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love it . I love it because I think

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there's application in a lot of

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different areas to save time and money

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and I love that he has taken it as far

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as he has so far . He looks like , I

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mean he's he's gone , he's done the

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homework , he's done the legwork .

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Colonel Sam's thoughts . I am , I'm

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struggling . Every individual that

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stood here and the teams behind them is

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just compelling . This is going to be

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really hard , much harder than I

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honestly thought it was going to be .

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It's tough . The three that I've heard

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have been fantastic . There's five to

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go . We're going to take a break . But

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before we do , we've got one more

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picture for the first half of

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Innovation rodeo 2022 that is

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Lieutenant Colonel Adam Wally Wallace .

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He's gonna come out and he is going to

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pitch your faces off . And are we , are

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we ready ? Let's bring Wally out

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October 2018 Tyndall Air Force Base .

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Not a fun place to be . I'm standing on

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the ramp and I'm looking across at the

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rubble . That was once our squadron .

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The situation is surreal . It's just

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utter devastation . We have no power .

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We have no water , cellphones quit

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working two days ago . Internet

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connectivity . No way . What do you

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do now ? What if in this

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situation I were able to pull out my

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cell phone and by simply swapping over

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to a wifi network . I was able to

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communicate with my team

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instantaneously whether via text

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message , I can upload pictures ,

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upload video or I can see where

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everybody is at . Over a sleek user

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interface . This is what our team is

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doing . Slide please .

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We have built a rapidly deployable

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alternate network . The ultimate goal

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of this is to bolster pace planning .

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We got the primary down . We got the

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emergency down . But are we giving

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enough love to the alternate and

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contingency portions here ? You know ,

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we had a network engineer , an Air

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Force network engineer . Mind you once

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tell us that we don't see the merits in

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your project . Our network never goes

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down that terrifies me .

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So we're here to give commanders the

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ability to continue to fight the

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installation when we lose it all slide

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please . So what's the need ? This

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isn't my opinion . This is rooted in

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joint publications doctrine and just

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common sense . You don't put one

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generator on a C 1 30 you put four ,

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you fail over . So in this case , you

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know , you look at agile combat

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employment . The doctrine states right

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there . You need a communications

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network that is mobile , secure ,

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survivable and sustainable . L . M R's

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and entry communication kits only go so

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far to generate missions . You have to

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move data , not just data to our senior

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leaders , but to everyone in that area .

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Additionally , what really shocked me

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was joint publication 3-12 cyberspace

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ops says we often discount our reliance

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on these networks therefore I quote

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resiliency is essential . So the

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current push right now we got all the

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folks in the right room . We got the

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hardware , we built an M V P . We have

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a six node mesh that we built and it's

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awesome . We're trying to take this

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from a trl sticks from a bench out into

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the field and that's our next goal here

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is to get this field in our next fly

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away exercise to show its worth slide

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please . So the solution or

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let's go with the problem here first .

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The problem here is that continuously

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comp tickets . They may not do what you

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want them to do . I mean everybody may

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not even have them , their

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infrastructure dependent . You gotta

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feed this thing . You have to have a

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generator set out here . You may need

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legacy copper fiber lines to feed it .

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And the cost . The cost is what got us

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here where we're doing our market

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research , those little briefcases that

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the journals carry around . They're

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awesome . But they come with a six

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figure price tag . You can't give that

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to a PLL troop out on the line . Just

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simply not doable . So the solution

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here is to come up with something

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that's self sustaining . It's

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affordable . It's also secure . Think

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of something that deploys a level of

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encryption that's superior to what we

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have now and is N . S . A certified by

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the way . And finally , I think the

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most important part here is that it's

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universal that allows everybody on the

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installation to play when we do lose it

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all slide please .

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So what does this look like In the

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simplest terms ? This is what we've

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built consists of four components . The

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first is a solar powered mesh node wifi

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six within that little chassis there we

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call it a bank teller tube on the back

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of a solar panel right Is essentially a

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seven day battery life . Customizable

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radios that can serve up to 500 users .

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Pretty neat . The second part of that

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are what we call the micro servers .

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Within that same tube we're able to

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embed single board computers and

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distribute capabilities throughout an

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entire installation . So think about

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this , you could have a rocket chat

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matter . Most chat client of your

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flavor wherever you want over here .

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You could be running an attack server

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over here . You lose one note , you

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still have functionality across the

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base . The third part is the encryption

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piece . We partnered with another

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startup out of ST louis that is

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providing hardware based encryption ,

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not software based that is quantum

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resistant future proof . The fourth

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part is back haul , let's say those

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commercial I . S . P . And cellular

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providers come back online . You want

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to connect this back to the world while

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your infrastructure is still degraded .

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You can do that additionally you can

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take commercial sat com and plug this

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in to provide that connectivity slide .

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So what's the ask it's a half a million

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dollars . We want to take all the smart

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people throw them in the same room ,

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throw spears at this . We want to

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expand the footprint of our M . V . P .

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We want to feel this on a larger scale

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out there . We wanna get tested , we

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know it's gonna have to go through

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Tempest , we know ethnic is gonna have

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to look at it , let them tear it apart .

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And then finally the most important

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part is for your advocacy to stand on

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some people's desks to move those

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timelines from years down two months so

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we can bolster these pace plans and

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keep our team ready for the next fight .

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That being said , please throw your

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spears . Thanks so much . Well we

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really appreciate it . Open it up to

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the judges for questions . I'll start

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with a tactical question . So if you

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have a situation like you have people

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come t D . Y . To support , is it easy

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to get them plugged into it ? You

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mentioned that you know , hey everybody

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at the base can come and do this thing

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you find there's a lot of , a lot of

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times people come from out of town , is

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it easy enough to get them tied into

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the same network ? Yes sir . It's a

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great question because the paradigm

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here is that you're gonna have some

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administrators essentially for this

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network . You're gonna have to go

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create user name , password ,

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certificate pairs etcetera . So yes

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you'll have to jump through some

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security hoops . But you can add people

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now those are already there , you can

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have them pre vetted pre loaded , ready

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to rock and roll . Got a quick question .

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So I see the cost dollar wise ,

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but now we're talking manpower , how

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we thought what that would look like uh

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with what the cost would be of

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manpower's uh as far as sustaining the

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system . Uh So chief with this one ,

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the com squad about chasing me out of

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the room with pitchforks there , who's

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gonna sustain this ? Right ? Who's

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gonna be replacing these notes ? And I

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wont really reveal a dollar amount here

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but they're essentially cheap enough

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that if one goes down , you simply

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replace it with another node . And it

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is a very very it's about a 10 minute

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set up per node that I can actually

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train . Airmen , the multi capable

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airmen concept here within the unit to

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do it in a matter of minutes . So so

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that's for that . But what about the

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management of the admin piece of it ,

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adding the users that come in TDY . And

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and that sort of thing . Yeah , that's

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a that would have to be determined by

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the commander but we can get back to

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you on a better plan with that one