AFLCMC… Providing the Warfighter’s Edge
USAF Open Approaches
Way Ahead
4 AUGUST 2015
Dr. Kevin L. Priddy
AFLCMC/EZA
937-656-6704
Kevin.Priddy.2@us.af.mil
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Overview
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USAF Open Systems Successes
Recent History
Vision/Mission Statements
USAF Way Ahead for OSA
Core Principles
What Industry Can Do
Key Takeaways
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AF Open Systems Successes
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Global Positioning System
User Equipment program
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Three-D Expeditionary Long Range-Radar program
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Open Mission Systems
OMS ISR Demo
F-22 Flight Demo
Universal Armament Interface (UAI)
Blue Devil ISR Platform
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Recent History
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• Since 2007, the following have occurred:
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Better Buying Power 3.0
DoD 5000 revised
Navy formally establishes OSA management office
DoD issues OSA Contract Guidebook for PMs
FACE™ (Future Airborne Capability Environment)
Consortium established
– Air Force Open Mission System (OMS) program
established
USAF has OSA pockets of excellence, but we need
a real culture change!
We can’t afford the current business model!
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Vision Statement
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• AFLCMC Open Approaches Management
Vision
– Peerless provider of processes, guidance and
resources to bring the full promise of open
systems approaches to fruition for the Air Force
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Mission Statement
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• AFLCMC Open Approaches Management
Mission Statement
– Leverage disparate open systems approaches
into a synergistic, effective collaboration
– Influence open standards development
– Develop processes and guidance for programs to
understand and benefit from adoption of open
systems approaches
– Provide cross-portfolio oversight of program
execution for open systems approaches
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Air Force Way Forward for OSA
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• Build Government Owned OSA Process/Environment
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Transition OMS/UCI to AFLCMC Open Approaches Mgt Office
Sustain OMS/UCI as the foundation
Integrate disparate OSA activities/efforts that fit
Enable Air Force compliance process for standard
implementations
– Validate standards/applications in a real-time SoS modeling and
simulation mission environment
– Bring standards/applications to a high “TRL” prior to
RFP/Contract on a program
• Address workforce development
AFLCMC will Lead Development of an
OSA Strategic Approach
for the Air Force and Implement!
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AF Open Missions Systems
Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (AFRCO)
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What is the Open Mission Systems (OMS) Project?
An effort to develop and sustain an industry consensus, non-proprietary
architectural standard for mission systems – open key-interfaces, modularity +
composition rules
OMS Purpose: Acquisition efficiency
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Reduce integration cost/risk, enable affordable adaptability and reuse
Decouples software/subsystems from hardware, networking, middleware
Enables enterprise-level acquisition strategies
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Industry collaborative working group – industry buy-in
“Active” linkages w/ adopting programs – control risk, prioritize efforts
Regular OMS prototyping experiments for design feedback – design proof
Persistent FFRDC involvement – objective assessments
OMS V1.0 baselined on 30 April 2014 after significant
testing and a formal systems engineering review.
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Acquisition Strategy Leads OSA
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• Define the acquisition strategy and then apply OSA
approach supporting that strategy.
• For example, what is driving our OSA requirement?
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Lifecycle Affordability
Resiliency
Agility
Software re-use
Reduced integration difficulties
Complete follow-on system H/W or S/W upgrades
Prepare system for transition from a contractor to organic
development & integration facility (i.e., appropriate data rights)
– Integrate items from a company’s product line
– Have system OEM drive OSA standards across vendor teams
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Major Near Term Tasks
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• Stand up Open Approaches Management Office
• Develop organization and administer process for
standard updates and upgrades
• Develop Technical Process to maintain/sustain
current and integrate emerging OSA standards
• Assist program offices with acquisition strategy,
RFP development, contract oversight
• Establish & Manage OSA integration/certification
facility
– Supports above tasks
– Provides an government OSA conformance authority
– Training for engineers
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Core Principles
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Maximize
Modular Design
Maximize reuse of
System Designs
Focus on
Government and
industry peer
collaborations
Increase competition
through alternative
vendor sources
Changes to the acquisition strategy
based on OA principles and OA
standards/interfaces leads to
Competitive vendors working
together to provide capabilities &
support for a piece of the system
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What Industry can do
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• Help us grow our OSA business model
• Help us define and refine open architectures
• Help us increase the penetration of OSA into our
legacy platforms
• Energize commercial industry partners for more
resilient and innovative capabilities, subsystems
and components
• Help us create agile, affordable, resilient USAF
systems of the future!
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Key Takeaways
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• Develop a non-proprietary open system architecture
• Mission software and subsystems attached to an Avionics
Service Bus (ASB) must be OMS compliant!
• Collaborate and share with AF, Army, Navy and other
government agencies
• Align with existing and emerging Open Systems standards
• FACE, SPIES, STANAG 4586, COARPs, UCI, CMCC, etc.
• Outcome
• Drive our shared acquisition/business model away from
legacy stove-piped solutions
• Influence and incentivize industry towards a capabilitybased business model with innovative “apps,” which will
enhance competition and encourage rapid innovation
• Focus and foster Government and industry collaborations
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Acronyms
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AFLCMC
AFRCO
CMCC
COARP
FACE
FFRDC
ISR
H/W
OA
OEM
OMS
OSA
OSA
RFP
SoS
SPIES
S/W
TRL
UAI
UAS
UCI
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office
Common Mission Control Center
Common Open Architecture Radar Program
Future Airborne Capability Environment
Federally Funded Research and Development Center
Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance
Hardware
Open Architecture
Original Equipment Manufacturer
Open Mission Systems
Open Systems Approach
Open Systems Architecture
Request for Proposal
System of Systems
Security and Privacy In Emerging computing and networking Systems
Software
Technology Readiness Level
Universal Armament Interface
Unmanned Aerial System
UAS Command & Control Initiative
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