Wright Brothers Institute, the Air Force Warfighting Ingetration Capability (AFWIC) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) 711 Human Performance Wing (HPW) will collaboratively support a new effort to explore potential leap-ahead warfighting capabilities. WBI will connect AFWIC’s Disruptive Technology Cross Functional Team (CFT), with military operators, strategists, leading academics, commercial firms, and government researchers to rapidly identify high value, high impact, leap-ahead technologies/capabilities.. Additionally, the effort seeks to identify technology enablers, mission application options, technical challenges, resource implications, and organizational hurdles for possible follow-on activities to include eventual AFWIC-sponsored, SDPE-led experimentation. The expertise from 711HPW will help to guide the selection and prioritization of the disruptive, leap-ahead capabilities that will augment the warfighters human performance.
WBI will facilitate several collaborative workshops, beginning with a global SME search, to identify the collaborators with the right expertise. Ideally, 50 emerging/disruptive technologies will inform experimentation efforts.