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Naval Information Warfare

Center Atlantic

COVID-19 Impact to the Workforce and Guidance to Industry

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Charleston Defense Industry Association

Small Business and Industry Outreach

Initiative Virtual Symposium

7 May 2020

Mr. Peter C. Reddy, SES

NIWC Atlantic

Executive Director

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Commitment to Mission

▼ Mandatory maximum telework

▼ ED approval of mission essential travel and military leave

▼ Shift work for on-site personnel to maximize social distancing

▼ Mask wear guidance when unable to maintain social distancing

▼ Maximize engagement with industry to:

Provide specific support to national COVID-19 response as

requested/coordinated

Maintain NIWC Atlantic mission essential activity in support of sponsors and

operational forces

▼ Planning for a “phased return-to-worksite plan” and greater use of

telework and collaboration as the new normal

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ASN RD&A Rigging for Speed – 17 March Edition

Keep in the Fight

▼ Focus on yourself

Keep yourself home

Keep moving

Keep realistic

▼ Focus on your teammates

Keep connected to your team

Keep leading

Keep improving

▼ Focus on mission

Keep engaged

Keep compliant

Keep connected to industry

Keep in touch

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None of us know

exactly how long this

is going to last, but

we need to be

prepared to operate

like this for the time

being. … I am

confident that we will

find unique solutions

to ensure we never

stop delivering

warfighting capability

to the warfighters!

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ASN RD&A Rigging for Speed – 24 March

Engaging the R&D Industrial Base during COVID-19

▼ It is imperative that the R&D industrial base be sustained and leveraged

Engage all activities to positively impact cash flow

Ensure we accomplish our current workload

Bring new partners into the enterprise

▼ Additional actions to consider for immediate and longer term implementation sustaining the national R&D during COVID-19

Defense Industry Base

SBIR/STTR Programs for Startup/Nontraditional and Traditional SBIR SmallBusinesses

UARCs/FFRDCs

Universities Preforming Basic Research

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This is a National

Emergency, thus

the Navy acquisition

community will

move out

accordingly. Bold

action is required as

the DON’s R&D

leaders your

implementation of

this memo’s

measures is critical

for maintaining the

U.S.’s R&D

capabilities.

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Consistent Keys to Success

▼ Acquisition Fundamentals

Focus on balancing cost, schedule, performance

Intensive team activity

Dedicated to getting best deal for taxpayer and delivering best capability to the warfighter

▼ Inextricable Link Between Technology & Warfighting

Iterative loops between concepts of operations & technology

Technologists must establish and maintain close relationship/understanding/empathy for the warfighter

Warfare centers have key role in connecting warfighters to programs; driving technology & capability

▼ Innovative, Resilient, Resourceful Workforce (Military, Civilian, Contractor)

Need to be empathetic to warfighter’s operating environment/needs (UX)

Leverage both the technologist’s & warfighter’s innovation and creativity

▼ Leadership

Servant leadership based on mutual expectation of character and competence between leader and led.

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Challenge & Opportunity Dilemmas

▼ Centralized management vs. decentralized management.

▼ Information security vs. sharing & collaboration DOD/DON guidance to protect classified &

unclassified information from determined adversary collection efforts

− DODI 5230.24, Distribution Statements on Technical Documents

− DoD Manual 5200.45, Instructions for Developing Security Classification Guides

Research imperative to collaborate & publish

Guidance to engage / collaborate with industry & academia

“New normal” of social distancing with need to collaborate

− Collaboration tools

▼ Programmatic risk vs. innovation PMs/PEOs driven to “Performance to

Plan”/ABPA – maintain cost, schedule, performance

Pace of technology, threat, user demands drive rapid innovation and capability improvements

▼ Rapid prototyping vs. long-term, basic research Strategic investment (6.1 – 6.3) to develop “game

changer” technologies

Drive to place in warfighters hands in a militarily useful timeframe

▼ Balance across today’s readiness and future lethality

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NavalX – Tech Bridges

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Great space in town –

a “business commons”

or “innovation

collective”

Connect to programs

for requirements,

funding paths and user

feedback

Collaboration with

naval technologists and

facilities

Improved partnerships with

academia, small business,

startups, venture capital,

non-profits and local

organizations

Building networks, breaking

down silos and connecting

people!

Accelerating the pace of

discovery, learning and

experimentation.

Making change easier.

https://www.public.navy.mil/navwar/Atlantic/Pages/PalmettoTechBridge.aspx

https://www.secnav.navy.mil/agility

Mr. Michael Merriken

Director, Palmetto Tech Bridge

NIWC Atlantic

NavalX connects both the internal DON and external DON partners to increase awareness and access to best practices and technologies.

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In the Works

▼ Initial planning for NIWC Atlantic OASIS/PTB next week

▼ NIWC Atlantic to release a RFI for the first PTB Technology Challenge; Network and Data Center Intelligent Assistant

Open for 30 days with a Q&A webinar set for 19 May

Prize Challenge would follow

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▼ NavalX is soon to announce the Mid-Atlantic Tech Bridge (MATB)

Based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, the MATB will be a partnership of three Naval Warfare Centers in the area; each will take on lead roles based upon their specific strengths in the partnership.− Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Dam Neck Activity− NSWC Carderock Norfolk Detachment − NIWC Atlantic Hampton Road Detachment

▼ Targeting July to have the PTB off-site facility open

Opportunity for PTB first technical event to host is an interchange with industry and academia around the OASIS/PTB capabilities

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OASISIntroduction to Software Factories

▼ The NIWC Atlantic OASIS is an enterprise Agile software development capability modeled after the US Air Force Kessel Run Software Factory.

▼ OASIS delivers the first accredited Naval DEVSECOPS software development pipeline capability supporting advanced levels of automation and the first accredited software factory with a “Continuous ATO”.

▼ OASIS includes access to development platforms from multiple sources such as:

USAF Kessel Run

Navy C2C24

USMC MCBOSS

Platform One

BESPIN

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https://www.dvidshub.net/news/3674

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excursion-through-kessel-run-brings-

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https://charlestonbusiness.com/news

/defense/78388/

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Enterprise

Learning

Teaming

Contracts

Talent Management

Facilities

Culture Standards

Re-use

Platforms

Pipelines

Cyber Security

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Speed to Market

Quality

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AI/ML

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CMMI

Cloud Services

CDCA

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Warfighter

Business Systems

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NIWC Atlantic is part of the Naval Research & Development Establishment (NR&DE)

Serve our Nation by delivering information warfare solutions that protect national security.

WIN THE INFORMATION WAR.

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NAVWAR Contract Directorate Office: https://e-commerce.sscno.nmci.navy.mil

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