Air Force Features

July 9, 2020
Air Force Chief Data Office announces first Datathon

For the first Datathon, the Chief Data Office is teaming with AFWERX and the USAF-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Accelerator to focus on C-17 Globemaster III aircrew scheduling optimization.
May 7, 2020
Nuclear command leverages academia, industry data in COVID-19 fight

Through a partnership with the Cyber Innovation Center, Louisiana Tech University, and Virtualitics Inc., Air Force Global Strike Command officials rapidly developed a daily report consisting of infection rate projections based on a COVID-19 Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, Resistant, or SEIR, model.
Oct. 30, 2019
University students help JSTARS innovate scheduling

Operators of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System are teaming up with Mercer University’s computer science department in Macon, Georgia, to advance an antiquated software system.
Oct. 11, 2019
Goldfein praises US, British partnership and the shared connection to the ‘future fight’

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein told a group of senior British military officials, including Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston, that success in “the future fight” relies on data, networks and the ability to link systems of allies and partners, Oct. 10.
Oct. 11, 2019
Chief Data Office announces capabilities for the VAULT Data Platform

The VAULT Platform now has a set of tools to support a full lifecycle of data exploitation activities. It is now possible to ingest data, manage storage, manage metadata, manipulate, cleanse and experiment with data and visualize analytics results.
Oct. 9, 2019
AFRL team enhances safety for survival specialists through wearable health monitoring technology

With SHARK, sensors are embedded into shirts to transmit key metrics including heart rate and estimated core temperature from smartphones to a server the system allows instructors to monitor the data in real-time and issues alerts for heart rate spikes and significant increases in temperature.
Aug. 7, 2019
AFSPC rolls out new enterprise data strategy

The command’s enterprise data strategy will provide the means to ensure greater mission success. It is a framework that integrates space enterprise data sources into a common, resilient and agile architecture optimized for space domain awareness and responsive multi-domain operations at speed and
July 9, 2019
Donovan stresses ‘Digital Air Force’s’ importance and necessity

As outlined in a July white paper, the Digital Air Force initiative encompasses comprehensive changes to how the force gathers, uses and shares data.
June 13, 2019
Air Force conducts successful hypersonic weapon flight test

The U.S. Air Force successfully conducted the first flight test of its AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, on a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft on June 12 at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
May 8, 2019
Public release announcement of the Air Force Data Services Reference Architecture

As discussed in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the United States is facing an increasingly complex global security environment marked by the re-emergence of long-term strategic competition, rapid technological change and new concepts of warfare.
Feb. 25, 2019
Industry gets schooled on MDC2

Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, projected its quiet power during the Multi-Domain Command and Control (MDC2) Industry Day, Feb. 20, at the Minuteman Educational Center, according to speaker Eileen Vidrine, the Air Force's chief data officer.
May 21, 2018
New tool enhances AF safety inspections, assessments and evaluations

A new module has been launched through the Air Force Safety Automated System on May 17,2018, arming safety professionals Air Force-wide with a single method to document and track both spot and annual inspections, as well as safety assessments and evaluations at a local and enterprise level.
April 25, 2018
Air Force Chief Data Office hosts inaugural workshop

More than 70 representatives from major commands and functional communities across the Air Force gathered in Arlington, Virginia, April 11- 13, 2018, to collaborate on the way forward for defining an enterprise-wide, scalable capability that makes data visible, accessible, understandable, linked,
Feb. 23, 2018
AF chief data officer: Data is the future of the force

Founded in summer 2017, the Chief Data Office remains focused on unleashing the value of data across the Air Force.
Oct. 2, 2017
A chip that scrambles

The Air Force’s new Mini Crypto chip will secure communications and data between systems like unmanned aerial vehicles and explosive ordnance disposal robots, while being “losable.”

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