Transition Agent:

Transition Agent: The Global Cyberspace Integration Center at Langley AFB, Va., has transitioned 11 new systems to the warfighter in the past 12 months that were demonstrated during Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment activities. And the center says it isn’t done yet, with plans to move five more from the laboratory to the battlespace within the next four months. The GCIC is the lead agency for JEFX, the quarterly field experiment to assess initiatives that could fill identified warfighting capability gaps. “We aim to provide capability to the first operational unit within 18 months of approval and funding following a successful experiment,” said Lt. Col. Jonathan Fitton, GCIC transition management branch chief. Capabilities that GCIC has transitioned include the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Analysis Tool that is in place at an air base in Southwest Asia. Also in use are the Global Situational Awareness Tool, a suite of medical-intelligence, mission-planning and decision-support tools, and Project Suter V, which was developed for Air Force Cyber Command. Suter provides a joint view of the tactical information battlespace to synchronize kinetic, non-kinetic and ISR operations against mobile, networked adversary systems. (Langley report by Capt. Larry van der Oord)

3/24/2008

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To Be Clear
“Just like in my business, the issues that go badly get all of the attention. I think, to be clear with you, there are many things that are managed well every day in the Air Force.”
—John Young, Pentagon acquisition executive, speaking to defense reporters on the state of Air Force acquisition, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2008.

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F-22 Options
“They have two choices. On January 21st, they can obligate the $90 million and decide there's some chance ... that they will buy the airplanes and they'd rather preserve the option to buy [them] at no additional cost to the taxpayer. Or, they could chose not to obligate the $90 million and accept that they still have a decision to be made between then and March 1st. But that decision may cost the taxpayer more money.”
—DOD acquisition czar John Young on how releasing only $50 million of the $140 million authorized by Congress to keep the F-22 production line active until March 2009 still preserves options for the new Administration, Capitol Hill, Nov. 19, 2008.