By
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs, / Published May 19, 2015
WASHINGTON
(AFNS) -- The Air Force recently launched the first Enterprise Capability
Collaboration Team (ECCT), kicking off an initiative that integrates expertise
from around the service in an effort to deliver innovative solutions to
capabilities issues.
Chief
of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III chartered the first ECCT with
the task of exploring the air superiority mission with an eye toward the year
2030 and beyond. They will spend the next year focusing on delivering
capability options in projected future operating environments, ultimately
delivering courses of action to support acquisition activities and related
efforts geared toward ensuring long-term air dominance independent of a
reliance on specific platforms.
“Gaining
and maintaining air superiority is foundational to how we fight,” Welsh said.
“The air superiority this nation has enjoyed for 60 years is not an accident
and gaining and maintaining it is not easy.”
“It
requires trained proficient and ready Airmen and it requires credible, capable
and technologically superior aircraft,” he said.
The
makeup of the air superiority 2030 team will span a wide spectrum of the
service’s pool of experts, providing it the ability to accurately consider the
air superiority needs of combatant commands and sister services and how the Air
Force can best meet those needs.
“Planning
for the future requires a full and integrated understanding of the ways Air
Force and service capabilities work together to deliver joint warfighting
effects,” said Lt. Gen. James M. Holmes, the deputy chief of staff for
strategic plans and requirements. “The ECCT will bring together users and
operators from all Air Force domains and core functions, along with the
requirements, acquisition and science and technology communities to
collaboratively examine, comprehend and quantify operational needs and propose
defendable, achievable and affordable solutions.”
As
their project matures over the course of the year, the ECCT will consider both
materiel and non-materiel solutions as a means to fill capability gaps. This
could include examining new technologies by leveraging wargaming,
experimentation, and modeling and simulation, and providing the team
opportunities to review and assess capabilities options across multiple
geographic regions and warfighting domains, both contested and non-contested.
“Focusing
on capability solutions means we first explore and research the concepts and
technologies we need to meet current and future requirements,” Holmes said.
“Then we can look at how we would apply these concepts and technologies across
any number of platforms, organizations and domains. In the end, that could mean
modernizing a current platform, using current platforms and sensors in new
ways, or investing in a new platform to meet national strategic objectives.”
At
the conclusion of their year-long endeavor, ECCTs will deliver options to Air
Force senior leaders that identify, refine and mature the most feasible
solutions to fill capability gaps.
The
Air Force will stand up a limited number of the ECCTs focusing on
high-priority, enterprise-wide problems.
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