WEBVTT 00:12.529 --> 00:14.585 The innovation that we won the award 00:14.585 --> 00:17.729 for is programmatic added manufacturing 00:17.739 --> 00:19.683 more commonly known as 3D printing 00:19.683 --> 00:23.100 implementation . So an easy way to 00:23.110 --> 00:26.659 understand what we did is we took an 00:26.670 --> 00:28.930 emerging technology and created a 00:28.940 --> 00:32.439 workflow and path for anybody to take 00:32.450 --> 00:34.709 advantage of it . The driving need . We 00:34.720 --> 00:36.810 saw we had a lot of folks who have 00:36.819 --> 00:39.810 spent a lot of time on cutters and 00:39.819 --> 00:43.060 seeing how hard it is to find parts for 00:43.069 --> 00:46.319 some of our older systems or even just 00:46.430 --> 00:48.486 when you're out and seeing something 00:48.486 --> 00:50.819 breaks . If you could 3D print it or 3D , 00:50.819 --> 00:52.986 print something that will work half as 00:52.986 --> 00:54.930 well and you keep printing it , it 00:54.930 --> 00:57.097 would really help us out 5 to 10 years 00:57.097 --> 00:59.208 up the road . I would love to see the 00:59.208 --> 01:01.374 Coast Guard fully implemented where we 01:01.374 --> 01:03.520 have support units with high level 01:03.529 --> 01:05.849 printers and the same printers that we 01:05.860 --> 01:08.754 would have on cutter . That way . If a 01:08.764 --> 01:10.824 cutter something happens , we can 01:10.834 --> 01:13.875 design the part show side test , print 01:13.885 --> 01:16.052 it , send that file to the cutter that 01:16.052 --> 01:18.218 needs it and they can print it as they 01:18.218 --> 01:20.385 need it along with an E warehouse of 01:20.394 --> 01:22.595 parts that are pre approved and they 01:22.605 --> 01:24.772 can print them whenever they need them 01:24.772 --> 01:24.555 out at sea 01:29.260 --> 01:32.239 intrusive load monitoring is in the 01:32.250 --> 01:34.480 simplest terms , power monitoring , we 01:34.489 --> 01:38.019 have sensors that we can hook up to a 01:38.129 --> 01:40.610 power distribution center similar to a 01:40.760 --> 01:43.470 circuit breaker at your house . There's 01:43.480 --> 01:45.591 pieces of equipment on ships all over 01:45.591 --> 01:47.813 the place . So we hook these sensors up 01:47.813 --> 01:49.839 and they take voltage and current 01:49.849 --> 01:52.016 information to generate a power stream 01:52.016 --> 01:54.182 for every piece of equipment that goes 01:54.182 --> 01:57.110 through that box from there . We can 01:57.989 --> 02:00.100 look at the data in that power stream 02:00.100 --> 02:02.029 and try to identify anomalies or 02:02.040 --> 02:04.151 incorrect behaviors for the equipment 02:04.151 --> 02:06.519 that is operating , turning on and off 02:06.650 --> 02:10.550 based on the power draws of it or even 02:10.559 --> 02:14.199 the frequency of actuation based on its 02:14.210 --> 02:16.043 design behavior . And what we're 02:16.043 --> 02:19.199 actually observing ships , ships break , 02:19.210 --> 02:21.432 they're not perfect . Coast Guard has a 02:21.432 --> 02:23.654 lot of old ships . Coast guard also has 02:23.654 --> 02:25.766 a lot of new ships , regardless of if 02:25.766 --> 02:27.488 they're old or new something , 02:27.488 --> 02:29.710 something will break a lot of the times 02:29.710 --> 02:31.654 what happens is we don't know it's 02:31.654 --> 02:33.710 broken until it's too late . And you 02:33.710 --> 02:35.710 get to a point where it's like that 02:35.710 --> 02:38.479 pump needs to be replaced . So what 02:38.490 --> 02:41.929 this the driver for , this is what we 02:41.940 --> 02:43.551 like to call condition based 02:43.551 --> 02:45.662 maintenance . You observe a condition 02:45.662 --> 02:47.773 on that piece of equipment that would 02:47.773 --> 02:49.884 make you think it is trending towards 02:49.884 --> 02:51.884 breaking . So you don't , you don't 02:51.884 --> 02:54.309 have as much cost for fixing , fixing 02:54.320 --> 02:56.320 something before it breaks and your 02:56.320 --> 02:58.789 down time expediting shipping on 02:58.800 --> 03:00.800 equipment isn't as impactful on the 03:00.800 --> 03:03.789 unit and operations both monetarily in 03:03.800 --> 03:04.229 time 03:08.860 --> 03:11.149 preparing for this . For a long time . 03:11.160 --> 03:13.327 The Coast Guard has been preparing for 03:13.327 --> 03:15.179 it . We've had over five years 03:15.190 --> 03:17.246 preparing for a new financial system 03:17.279 --> 03:19.057 and that's the financial system 03:19.057 --> 03:22.619 modernization solutions FSS came 03:22.630 --> 03:25.460 out . We learned that we fell short on 03:25.470 --> 03:27.637 understanding exactly the capabilities 03:27.637 --> 03:29.803 of FSS and what we needed to do in the 03:29.803 --> 03:31.803 Coast Guard to kind of maintain our 03:31.803 --> 03:33.914 operations , maintain our purchases . 03:34.059 --> 03:36.429 So that's where press came , came and 03:36.440 --> 03:38.589 helped us out . So this is a system 03:38.600 --> 03:41.679 that worked alongside FSS and what it 03:41.690 --> 03:44.115 did it , the lag in FSS , you had so 03:44.125 --> 03:48.024 many people in FSS over 7000 requesters 03:48.035 --> 03:50.257 in FSS and it was causing the system to 03:50.257 --> 03:52.424 go a little bit slower when we created 03:52.424 --> 03:54.202 press that starts with the user 03:54.202 --> 03:56.368 interface . In the very beginning , it 03:56.368 --> 03:58.591 makes it real easy . So the person from 03:58.591 --> 04:00.757 a ship from a cutter from , you know , 04:00.757 --> 04:02.979 from a base or from the sector needs to 04:02.979 --> 04:05.091 order something . It's almost like an 04:05.091 --> 04:07.375 Amazon interface where they go in . 04:07.384 --> 04:09.800 They have their name , it gets pulled 04:09.809 --> 04:11.970 up their unit where they ship an item 04:11.979 --> 04:14.146 and they can easily say this is what I 04:14.146 --> 04:16.035 want . And if they had a repeated 04:16.035 --> 04:18.257 purchase , they can pick something that 04:18.257 --> 04:20.479 they purchased previously . I could see 04:20.479 --> 04:20.179 how many purchases we needed to do for 04:20.190 --> 04:22.489 Hurricane Ian for Hurricane Fiona and I 04:22.500 --> 04:24.500 was doing that out base Galveston . 04:24.500 --> 04:26.833 Right . So I was working with our teams , 04:26.833 --> 04:29.056 you know , we created the system within 04:29.056 --> 04:31.000 a few weeks , right ? We created a 04:31.000 --> 04:32.944 whole system , a process , did the 04:32.944 --> 04:35.167 training about 5 to 6 weeks , we had it 04:35.167 --> 04:37.222 out implemented and we have over 790 04:37.222 --> 04:39.444 units now using press to make all their 04:39.444 --> 04:41.333 purchases right to validate their 04:41.333 --> 04:44.040 purchases over $100 million worth of 04:44.049 --> 04:46.160 purchases . And that was right away . 04:46.160 --> 04:48.438 And that's the biggest win that we had . 04:51.970 --> 04:54.440 The innovation award that we received 04:54.619 --> 04:56.730 was for the return to ready program , 04:57.350 --> 05:00.980 which is a modular tool for commands 05:00.989 --> 05:04.820 to assist in getting their members and 05:04.829 --> 05:08.049 units back to a ready status after a 05:09.250 --> 05:11.619 critical or complex incident involving 05:11.630 --> 05:13.852 personnel . So the Coast guard has many 05:13.852 --> 05:16.019 fantastic tools to help our people get 05:16.019 --> 05:17.908 to a ready status or to help them 05:17.910 --> 05:21.649 through trying times . But the programs 05:21.660 --> 05:23.920 themselves often worked independently 05:23.929 --> 05:26.260 of each other and not together . The 05:26.269 --> 05:29.519 return to ready program was developed 05:29.529 --> 05:31.640 to bring all the programs together to 05:31.640 --> 05:34.109 the same table at the same time , so 05:34.119 --> 05:36.559 that we could speak common language for 05:36.570 --> 05:40.010 the commands and offer the commands , 05:40.019 --> 05:42.130 all the tools necessary to help their 05:42.130 --> 05:44.186 people . Ideally , as of right now , 05:44.186 --> 05:47.269 it's purely a district 17 program . 5 05:47.279 --> 05:49.446 to 10 years from now , I'd like to see 05:49.446 --> 05:51.446 it implemented Coast Guard wide and 05:51.450 --> 05:54.100 then ideally , I would like to see it 05:54.149 --> 05:57.700 honestly self regulate with commands , 05:57.709 --> 05:59.820 being more aware of the tools and the 05:59.820 --> 06:02.042 different groups being able to function 06:02.042 --> 06:04.470 as a cohesive unit without the need of 06:04.480 --> 06:05.813 a program to help out . 06:10.350 --> 06:13.420 So what we're doing is using a standard 06:13.429 --> 06:17.420 medical EKG or ECG , which is a 06:17.429 --> 06:19.970 recording of the electrical activity of 06:19.980 --> 06:23.489 the heart to look for any conditions 06:23.500 --> 06:26.820 that are associated with potential 06:26.829 --> 06:28.730 sudden cardiac death . And by 06:28.739 --> 06:32.149 identifying those patients up 06:32.160 --> 06:34.899 front , we are able to act proactively 06:34.910 --> 06:37.077 and hopefully prevent a sudden death . 06:37.077 --> 06:38.799 Since 2012 , I was doing these 06:38.799 --> 06:41.880 screenings on high school students in 06:41.890 --> 06:44.899 central Illinois and was finding a 06:44.910 --> 06:47.359 remarkable number of abnormalities that 06:47.369 --> 06:50.880 needs to undergo further evaluation and 06:50.890 --> 06:54.679 intervention . And then in 2020 there 06:54.690 --> 06:56.746 were two deaths at the Naval Academy 06:56.746 --> 06:58.801 within a week of each other and both 06:58.801 --> 07:01.279 wound up having conditions that high 07:01.290 --> 07:03.401 probability that they would have been 07:03.401 --> 07:05.068 identified by a screening EKG 07:05.068 --> 07:07.619 beforehand . And that precipitated the 07:07.630 --> 07:11.184 Naval Academy to go ahead and do 07:11.195 --> 07:13.306 something . And subsequently Congress 07:13.306 --> 07:15.639 mandated that screenings be done at all . 07:15.639 --> 07:18.204 The dod academies , of course , Coast 07:18.214 --> 07:20.270 Guard comes under DHS . So we didn't 07:20.270 --> 07:22.394 get the dod money to do things , but 07:22.404 --> 07:25.595 captain is Simon had the foresight to 07:26.204 --> 07:28.375 really buy into the project for the 07:28.385 --> 07:30.496 first year and was able to secure the 07:30.496 --> 07:33.195 money to buy the very specialized 07:33.204 --> 07:35.635 machines to do ECG screenings on 07:35.644 --> 07:36.644 athletes . 07:41.170 --> 07:43.281 This technology isn't innovative . Uh 07:43.281 --> 07:45.279 It's the , it's a boat crew 07:45.290 --> 07:48.799 communication system um is or a B CCS 07:48.809 --> 07:51.579 and all Coast Guard boats . It's all , 07:51.589 --> 07:53.700 almost all boats in the past 10 years 07:53.700 --> 07:56.500 or , or more in the Coast Guard have a 07:56.510 --> 07:59.950 B CCS of some type . But the problem is 07:59.959 --> 08:02.630 that they frequently fail . Um , and 08:02.640 --> 08:04.640 for example , on the 29 which , you 08:04.640 --> 08:06.807 know , it's been fielded over the past 08:06.820 --> 08:09.779 seven or eight years , um , they're 08:09.790 --> 08:13.339 already obsolete . The innovation had 08:13.350 --> 08:16.869 to do with how we went about , um , 08:19.070 --> 08:22.160 test , prototyping and testing and 08:22.799 --> 08:25.970 eventually procuring a solution . So 08:25.980 --> 08:28.091 when they , when they were looking to 08:28.091 --> 08:30.147 buy an RBS two , they put together a 08:30.147 --> 08:32.258 specification package . And as a part 08:32.258 --> 08:34.258 of that specification , there was , 08:34.258 --> 08:37.388 there needs to be a B CCS um system 08:38.250 --> 08:41.919 in as a part of the boat and we don't 08:41.929 --> 08:43.929 care , you know , who provides that 08:43.929 --> 08:46.151 system , but it needs to meet all these 08:46.151 --> 08:48.207 requirements . The Coast Guard never 08:48.207 --> 08:50.429 had a , had an option really of whether 08:50.429 --> 08:53.070 that B CCS was what we really wanted or 08:53.080 --> 08:55.191 what it , you know , the operator was 08:55.191 --> 08:56.858 never really involved and the 08:56.858 --> 08:58.969 maintainer was never involved in is , 08:58.969 --> 09:00.969 does this solution work ? And is it 09:00.969 --> 09:03.080 maintainable ? And is it gonna last , 09:03.080 --> 09:02.340 you know , and it does it , does it 09:02.349 --> 09:04.619 solve the problem that B CCS is 09:04.630 --> 09:06.741 supposed to solve ? So the difference 09:06.741 --> 09:09.830 here is it was a much more fluid 09:09.840 --> 09:12.190 process of this is what the coast guard 09:12.200 --> 09:14.450 thinks it's wants . But this is , this 09:14.460 --> 09:17.119 is what uh industry can actually 09:17.130 --> 09:20.869 provide . And is there some is there 09:20.880 --> 09:22.936 some give and take on either side of 09:22.936 --> 09:25.102 that equation to actually come up with 09:25.102 --> 09:26.880 a solution that's buildable and 09:26.880 --> 09:29.760 maintainable and will um meet the needs 09:29.770 --> 09:31.492 of the operator . And then the 09:31.492 --> 09:33.270 operators were involved in , in 09:33.270 --> 09:35.326 actually testing those solutions and 09:35.326 --> 09:37.492 saying , oh , this , this works here , 09:37.492 --> 09:39.548 these , this works for these reasons 09:39.548 --> 09:41.714 and and this works for these reasons . 09:41.714 --> 09:41.650 But um is there something we can do to 09:41.659 --> 09:43.826 change it to make it work better for , 09:43.826 --> 09:46.048 you know , over here ? And so that kind 09:46.048 --> 09:49.419 of collaborative process with 09:49.429 --> 09:53.229 industry is a model that could be used 09:53.239 --> 09:55.406 in lots of different things throughout 09:55.406 --> 09:57.517 the Coast Guard acquisition process . 09:57.517 --> 09:59.683 The demand for Coast Guard missions is 09:59.683 --> 10:01.850 growing at home and around the world , 10:01.850 --> 10:04.017 we have to keep pace with our changing 10:04.017 --> 10:06.017 world . We have to meet demand . We 10:06.017 --> 10:08.183 have to uphold our responsibilities to 10:08.183 --> 10:11.090 protect , defend and save the American 10:11.099 --> 10:13.266 people . And our strategy calls on all 10:13.266 --> 10:15.377 of us to sharpen our competitive edge 10:15.377 --> 10:17.929 by building a culture of innovation .