Armament Industry Roundtable

The performance of the United States weapon systems must remain unmatched, ensuring that U.S. military forces have a tactical combat advantage over any adversary in any environmental situation. The Armament Directorate Systems Development Division’s mission is to harvest, mature, demonstrate and transition the best ideas into disruptive national munitions capabilities.

Mixed Reality Air Refueling Training Challenge

AFWERX and the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) are gathering thought leaders and subject matter experts to focus on current and future pilot training  challenges and potential best practice solutions to develop a trainer (simulation or something else) which allows pilots to learn the fine motor skills and visual perception of movement necessary to accomplish mid-air refueling in the B-52 bomber and other Air-to-air refueling (AAR).

Air Force Digital Engineering Pitch Day

The Air Force is seeking to identify innovative Digital Engineering (DE) technologies and processes that aid in transforming AF acquisition from “analog” to “digital” and allow the AF to rapidly and continuously field disruptive capabilities. Digital Engineering depends on the creation of virtual, digital models and environments that are nearly perfect, harnessing their full power to learn and experiment so the actual, physical systems are fully integrated and tested before they are produced. 

Air Force Virtual Datathon

We have observed that scheduling C-17 squadron aircrew is overly time-consuming, manually intensive and increases the chance of human errors, causing unpredictability, and poor work-life balance. It also causes missed training opportunities, and ultimately inefficient use of resources.Our goal is to optimize short-term decisions while taking into account long-term second & third-order effects, ultimately decreasing the time required to prepare schedules, increasing the predictability for increased mission effectiveness.

2021 C4ISR & Cyberspace

The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Command & Control, Communications and Computers (C4), Globally Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) and Cyberspace Superiority (Cyber) Service Core Functions (SCFs) community of experts is proud to announce the 2021 C4ISR & Cyber Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Technology Interchange Meetings (TIMs), slated to occur during the week of 22-26 March 2021.

AFWERX Accelerate

LAUNCHING A UNIVERSE OF OPPORTUNITY

Join us for this exciting virtual event to learn all about AFWERX’s efforts and partnership opportunities to accelerate collaborative capability development, emerging technology trends, research and development, and fostering innovative and courageous problem-solvers for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force.

International Space Pitch Day

In an effort to redefine the process for contracting international innovators, the UK and USA have partnered together to jointly launch the ‘Allied Defence Accelerator’ which continues the spirit of the two’s historic bond of combined defense initiatives. International Space Pitch Day will serve as the program’s “demo-day” showcasing high potential startups and innovators from around the globe. The event will give entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their innovation live to a joint UK-US panel of Program Executive Officers.