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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, delivers remarks during a press conference inside the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 18, 2019. Cooley spoke on AFRL’s efforts to work with small businesses and universities in an effort to focus on speed when it comes to the science and technology strategy as unveiled by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wesley Farnsworth)190418-F-AV193-1035
                        
                        
                        Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, delivers remarks during a press conference inside the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 18, 2019. Cooley spoke on AFRL’s efforts to work with small businesses and universities in an effort to focus on speed when it comes to the science and technology strategy as unveiled by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wesley Farnsworth)
                
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        A member of the local media records U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, as he delivers remarks during a press conference inside the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 18, 2019. Cooley spoke on AFRL’s efforts to work with small businesses and universities in an effort to focus on speed when it comes to the science and technology strategy as unveiled by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wesley Farnsworth)190418-F-AV193-1009
                        
                        
                        A member of the local media records Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, as he delivers remarks during a press conference inside the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 18, 2019. Cooley spoke on AFRL’s efforts to work with small businesses and universities in an effort to focus on speed when it comes to the science and technology strategy as unveiled by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wesley Farnsworth)
                
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AFRL commander introduces new AF Science, Technology StrategyPublished April 25, 2019
                    
                    By Bryan Ripple
                    
                    
                    88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
            **WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) --**The commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory presented highlights of the new Air Force Science and Technology Strategy for 2030 and beyond to members of the local media April 18 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
Speaking in front of several experimental aircraft on display that implemented technologies developed at AFRL, Maj. Gen. William Cooley told reporters that the new strategy prioritizes demands on time, space and complexity in future conflicts across all domains. The strategy aligns with the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy and lays out a path forward for the Air Force Science and Technology ecosystem to deliver warfighting capabilities at the speed of relevance and necessity.
AFRL collected over 1,500 ideas from academia, industry and government during the 18 months the strategy was being developed that address the “what” and the “how” of the strategy.
The Air Force S&T 2030 Strategy has three objectives:
1. Develop and deliver transformational strategic capabilities for the Air Force. The transformational component will focus on five strategic capabilities that directly support the vision to dominate time, space and complexity across all operating domains. The five strategic capabilities are as follows:
Global persistent awareness
Resilient information sharing
Rapid, effective decision-making
Complexity, unpredictability and mass
Speed and reach of disruption and lethality
2. Reform the way science and technology are led and managed through the appointment of an Air Force Chief Technology officer.
3. Deepen and expand the science and technology enterprise through an increased focus on partnerships and adopting agile and innovative business processes.
“To ensure that we have confidence in, and understand how to employ these new technologies and capabilities, we have to demonstrate them in a relevant environment, build prototypes and perform experimentation,” Cooley said. “This will build confidence in these new technologies for our warfighter.”
“We believe that bringing a stronger voice for science and technology across the Air Force will help us achieve the objectives laid out in this strategy,” Cooley said of the objective to appoint an Air Force Chief Technology Officer.
Speaking on the third objective, Cooley said there are two key components to this objective – the first being AFRL’s internal workforce.
“We must continue to attract, develop and retain the best and brightest from across the United States and our allies. This will require extra effort to partner with universities and technology ecosystems to enhance and expand our bench of researchers.”
The second component is to continue and expand AFRL partnerships with other stakeholders in the science and technology ecosystem, which includes universities, industry, both large and small businesses, other defense laboratories and other government laboratories.
“The reemergence of great power competition demands that our science and technology ecosystem expand to include not just the whole of the defense department, or the whole of government – we seek to engage the whole of nation as a science and technology ecosystem to ensure we dominate time, space and complexity in future conflict across all operating domains,” Cooley said.
“We also recognize that we need to be easier to work with and connect with, so to do this, we are implementing what we call a 'front door' to better enable partnerships – www.afresearchlab.com, a new website that will act as our digital front door,” he said.
One of the things the lab needs to do better is to engage small businesses who are not aware of the needs of the Air Force, and yet have terrific ideas that can help the Air Force and the national security enterprise.
“Pitch Day was a shift in how we’re engaging small business enterprises to enable us to pay them faster, so that it’s easier to work with the Air Force, but also to pull in small businesses who may not have historically known about us or worked with the Air Force in the past,” Cooley said.AFRL 



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