Information Directorate Overview

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Information Directorate Overview
Dr. Donald W. Hanson, SES Director Air Force
Research Laboratory/Information Directorate
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AFRL Operating Tenets

• Outsource majority of research/tech development
  to industry and academia
• Perform focused in-house research to maintain
  core expertise and be a smart outsourcer
• Balance near term transfer and far term research
• Collaborate/coordinate with others
• DoD Army, Navy, DARPA, DTRA, MDA, NRO
• Other federal agencies NASA, DOE, others
• Private sector
• International

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AFRL Structure
Air Vehicles
Space Vehicles
Directed Energy
Information
Munitions
Materials Manu- facturing
Sensors
Human Effectiveness
AFOSR
Propulsion
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AFRL Sites
HANSCOM
Space Vehicles
Sensors
AFOSR
WRIGHT-PATT
MESA
Headquarters
Air Vehicles
HumanEffectiveness
Materials Mfg
BROOKS
Propulsion
Sensors
HumanEffectiveness
Human Effectiveness
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Rome, NY A Rich Heritage
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Information DirectorateA Rich Technology
Heritage
AF Research Lab Information Directorate
Rome Laboratory
Theater Battle Manager - Reasoner
Rome Air Development Center
Advanced Planning System (Desert Storm)
J-STARS
Off-Board Data on J-STARS
Moving Target Indicators Experiment (MTIX)
Information Support Server Environment Guard
Multi-Level Secure Infrastructure
WebTAS (Timeline Analysis System)
Software Programmable Radio(forerunner of JTRS)
Information Technology Dominance Through Full
Spectrum Development
50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 2006
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Information Directorate Core Technical
Competencies

• Information Exploitation
• estimation and prediction of signal/feature
  states on the basis of pixel/signal level data
• Information Fusion Understanding
• process of combining information (in the broadest
  sense) to estimate or predict
• Information Management
• maximize the value of informationtailored,
  actionable, accessible
• Advanced Computing Architectures
• fundamental models of computation and engineering
  techniques for design of computing systems

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Information Directorate Core Technical
Competencies

• 5. Cyber Operations
• defend, attack and surveil info systems and
  networks
• 6. Connectivity
• High capacity, agile networks, enterprise
  management and controlfor air, space and surface
• 7. Command Control
• planning, directing, coordinating, and
  controlling forces and operations
• Predictive Environments Effects Based
  Operations, Adversarial Modeling and Reasoning

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Our Research Environment

• Supports innovation
• Encourages collaboration and teamwork
• Provides basis for stronger emphasis onin-house
  work
• Provides research environment for industryand
  academic teams to collaborate withAir Force
  scientists and engineers

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State of the Art Facilities

• High Performance Computing
• GMTI Center of Excellence
• Command Control Concept Center
• Quantum Communications Lab
• Information Assurance Science Technology Lab
• Forensics Lab
• Cyber Operations Technology Facility
• Defensive Cyber Operations
• Adversarial Science Labs
• Operation Information Management Facility

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Newport Test Site

• Far field antenna measurement facility for
  evaluation of aircraft platform effects on
  antennas and airborne systems
• State-of-the-art antenna evaluations to include
  active phased arrays, T/R module arrays,
  multi-beam arrays and conformal, low RCS
  apertures.
• Complement of full size airframes including F-35,
  F-22, F-15 and F-16 on towers w/high load, high
  accuracy positioning systems
• Largest facility of its kind with most advanced
  instrumentation and antenna measurement
  technology in US
• Ideal geography for far field ranges Two 1600 ft
  hilltops, 1.5 miles apart with 400 ft valley

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Information DirectorateSources Expenditures
during FY07
Expenditures RI Contractual Technical Program
589.58M AFMC Non ST 14.38M In-House
RD 43.14M Indirect 21.57M Program
Management 50.33M Total 719M
Sources AF ST 186.94M Other 532.06M Total 71
9M

• As of April 2008, Source RIF

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AFRL/RI Workforce

• Civ SE New Hires Mil SE In-Bound
• 22 in 03 --14 projected
• 18 in 04 summer 08
• 11 in 05
• 17 in 06
• 19 in 07
• 22 projected in 08

Total Directorate Staffing Govt Civilian SEs
311 Military SEs 26 Govt Civilian Support
Staff 327 Military Support Staff 17 On-Site
Collaborating Non-Govt SEs 355 On-Site
Contractor Support Staff 156 Total 1192
681 Govt Personnel 638 Civ 43 Mil
As of April 08 Source RIF
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Who Do We Recruit?

• Computer Scientists
• Electrical Engineers
• Computer Engineers
• Mathematicians

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Collaboration with Other Organizations our
Strength
Industry
AFRL Directorates
gt100 companies
DARPA
International
Other DoD Agencies
UK, Canada, TTCP, NATO
MDA, NGA
Intel Community
JFCOM, STRATCOM, TRANSCOM, NORTHCOM
Joint Community
DIA, CIA, NSA, NRO DTRA, NASIC, ARDA
Others
USAF MAJCOMs AFMC Product Centers
FFRDCs, NASA, NIJ,DHS, NIST, DOE Labs
Other Services Army, Navy
Academia
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Information Directorate Organization
DIRECTOR Dr. Donald Hanson DEPUTY DIRECTOR Col
Dewey Parker
SENIOR SCIENTISTS Dr. Richard Linderman Dr. Kamal
Jabbour
CHIEF SCIENTIST Dr. John Bay
ADVANCED COMPUTING DIVISION RIT Gerard
Genello James Collins
INFORMATION GRID DIVISION RIG LtCol Robert
Fleishauer Dr. Warren Debany
INFORMATION INTEL. EXPLOITATION
DIVISION RIE Joseph Camera Jon Jones
INFORMATION SYSTEMS DIVISION RIS James
Cusack Richard Metzger
STRATEGIC PLANNING INTEGRATION RIB Bill
Kaveney (Acting) Dr. Paul Phister
CORPORATE INFORMATION OFFICE RII Charles Schultz
SITE OPERATIONS RIO Daniel Bollana
FINANCE RIF Jean Iselo
CONTRACTING RIK Linda Reed
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Summary

• We develop cutting edge science and technology in
  our core technical competencies
• We address critical problems for the Air Force
  and national defense using our core technical
  competencies
• We hire outstanding Computer Scientists,
  Electrical Engineers, Computer Engineers, and
  Mathematicians
• We have state of the art laboratory facilities

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