Business and Enterprise Systems

WE run the Systems that run the AIR FORCE…moving MONEY, MANPOWER and

MATERIEL

Rich Aldridge,

Air Force Program Executive Officer

Business & Enterprise Systems

AFCEA Logistics Officers’ Association

4 Jun 20

Giving the Business to Business IT

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The Strategic Context

◼ Russian fighter patrols over the Arctic for the first time in 30 years and

Russian AA missiles from Syria to Siberia

◼ Chinese live fire exercises in the South China Sea

◼ “We have returned to an era of great power competition” – SecAF Wilson

◼ The AF has 75% of the combat power it needs (312 vs 386 ops sqdns)

◼ Innovation is in the DNA of the Air Force

◼ Multiple bomber models in WWII – iteration

◼ Nuclear, stealth, satellites

◼ Isn’t about removing bureaucracy or up’ing research

◼ What, how and who we buy solutions from is drastically changing

3Delivering at speed is the new normal, not saving money

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What is the AF doing?

◼ Chess vs Speed Chess

◼ China is patient; plans for our predictability

◼ Time to market matters

◼ He who dies with the most money doesn’t win

◼ Transforming the Acquisition enterprise

◼ Section 804 authorities for prototyping – Goal: 100 yrs savings (MET)

◼ Section 873/874 Agile pilot programs

◼ Radical empowerment and delegation

◼ Innovation: Sparq Tank, AFWERX, Agile DevSecOps

◼ Operational Test reset

◼ Collaborating with OSD on Digital Technology appropriation

◼ Shifting from product to service-oriented IT

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What is the AF doing?

◼ AF Pitch Day, NYC, 7 Mar 2019

◼ 51 contracts, shortest was 3 min pitch-to-pay; AF can be ‘first choice’

for start ups

◼ $660M/yr for Small Business Innovative Research; access to another

$400M

◼ All PEOs cleared to do their own pitch day

◼ Reverse the Industry Base consolidation

◼ Software Factories

◼ Kessel Run Kobayashi Maru (Level Up) Space Camp

◼ BES Product Innovation (BESPIN)

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What is AFPEO BES doing?

◼ Catching our stride with Agile

◼ From 6 pilots in Feb 2017 to 30+ programs as of Dec 2018…and growing

◼ Making good use of Intel’s DI2E Atlassian Suite (Jira) and Microsoft TFS/Visual

Studio Team Services

◼ 350 employees trained on Agile methodologies; Scrum Master growth – 13 to 44

◼ Successes

◼ CON-IT: On-boarded 4,400 operational contracting users; Migrated 41,212 contracts at

98% success rate; shutdown 109 Standard Procurement System (SPS) instances across

the USAF

◼ PBES: Delivered POTUS budget capability in mere 6 mo. from dev start-- 15 mo. earlier

than scheduled; Trained 15 AF MAJCOM’s/Orgs & 350+ users, 4.7/5 satisfaction rating

◼ NEXGEN CE: 10 Sprints yielded 4 major releases in 6 months, fielded 500+ requirements

(2010-2016: 350 requirements)

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Finally going mobile

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Inventory Check Part Request

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Partnering with CDO to tackle AF

Data Challenges

◼ Large number of legacy systems with numerous point-to-point

interfaces that are expensive to implement and maintain

◼ Antiquated, brittle architectures inhibit legacy system

enhancements required to make data accessible

◼ Many legacy systems employ “data jails” that prevent timely data

access that supports the analytics needs of Functional

communities and senior leaders

◼ The time is now to employ new, commercially available data

services that will change the landscape of how data enables

mission effectiveness

◼ BES Data Pilot now an operational platform being used by two

major orgs; signed out by USecAF as the AF Reference

Architecture, DoD CDO reviewing as possible joint solution

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Challenging Existing

Organizational Structures

◼ Air Force IT delivery is segmented

◼ The primary issues are organizational and cultural, not technical

◼ No single authority is responsible for end-to end IT service delivery

◼ Multiple orgs chasing unique IT solutions to common problems

◼ Warfighters need integrated IT solutions to deliver mission effects

◼ End-to-end services, designed to support enterprise outcomes

◼ Standard approaches to infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data

◼ Smarter business deals through enterprise integration

◼ AFPEO BES shifting to Product delivery not program management

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Army attempting to solve this on a broader scale with Futures Command,

AF through governance structure and processes

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Sometimes we ended up with this

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Often we ended up with this

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Today’s Air Force IT Operational Context

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Readiness impacted by stove-piped budgets, priorities, & technical disparity

• Every Mission Area an island:• Pursuing unique solutions to common

problems

• Decreasing IT spend value

• Designing IT independent of supported

missions (IT for IT’s sake)

• Increasing cybersecurity risk

• Losing data visibility & intel

• Creating operational risk through gaps

and seams between systems

• Decreasing Cloud migration velocity

• Wasted energy on products, no synergy

in delivering services

Not architected; not governed; performance neither measured nor measurable

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Contained # of APaaS

offerings

• Enterprise

Decisions

• Centrralized

Control

• Decentralized

Execution

EBS as a technical

standard

Modernized Microservices

End User Business Outcomes

APaaS

Custom

Dev

How Do We Execute the AF Bus Ops Plan?

Foundational;

Resources and

capacity to flow

(vice backlog)

requests for

service

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Contained # of APaaS

offerings

• Enterprise

Decisions

• Centrralized

Control

• Decentralized

Execution

EBS as a technical

standard

Modernized Microservices

End User Business Outcomes

APaaS

Custom

Dev

How Do We Execute the AF Bus Ops Plan?

Foundational;

Resources and

capacity to flow

(vice backlog)

requests for

service

A deliberately architected,

tightly integrated

technology baseline that

must be managed as a

“thing”

- Who is the architect?

- Who is the manager?

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Contained # of APaaS

offerings

• Enterprise

Decisions

• Centrralized

Control

• Decentralize

d Execution

EBS as a technical

standard

Modernized Microservices

End User Business Outcomes

APaaS

Custom

Dev

How Do We Execute the AF Bus Ops Plan?

Foundational;

Resources and

capacity to flow

(vice backlog)

requests for

service

A deliberately architected,

tightly integrated

technology baseline that

must be managed as a

“thing”

- Who is the architect?

- Who is the manager?

No resources + no

architecture + no manager =

no plan

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Our Organization and Operations are Part of the IBOE Architecture

AF Integrated Business Operations Environment (IBOE)How We’ll Enable the Air Force Business Operations Plan

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• 442 Systems

• 331 Business

Outcomes

• Ad hoc

CCE/Shared

Services

• X Systems

• 331 Business Outcomes

• Deliberate, managed and

comprehensive architecture

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AQ

CCE

Air Force Digital Business Transformation

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