Air Force Test

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Air Force Test EvaluationEnterprise
Air Force Materiel Command
Developing, Fielding, and Sustaining Americas
Aerospace Force

• Major General Curtis M. Bedke
• Commander,
• Air Force Flight Test Center

I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l
l e n c e
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Overview

• Introduction
• Is It Just another Bumper Sticker?
• What Do We Mean By Enterprise?
• Why Do We Need It?
• What Is It?
• One Test Center Commanders Definition
• Future
• Collaboration/Teaming

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Air Force Test EvaluationEnterprise

• is this just another bumper sticker?

Major General Curtis M. Bedke Commander, Air
Force Flight Test Center
The view from one test center commander
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What Do We Mean By Enterprise?

• Aircraft Carrier?

• Space Shuttle?!

• Starship?!!

• No! It means we are
• Cooperative!
• Coordinatedeven
• Collaborative!
• Coherent!
• Like the Three Musketeers
• One for All, All for One!

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and Why Do We Need One?

• Because the Toughest Issues (and Decisions) must
  be made as a Team / Family!
• Where do we invest Improvement Modernization ?
• CTEIP, SBIR, AFOSR and PE807
• How do we prioritize TE capabilities?
• How do we reduce duplication between test ranges?
• What TE capabilities do we divest?
• How do we balance Capability vs Capacity?
• Some national assets just not scaleable
• Are we really willing to accept a cap on
  Capacity?
• Or will we just continue to accept just do it,
  dammit!?

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So What is the AF TE Enterprise?
One Test Center Commanders definition An Air
Force initiative to systematically and
purposefully align the Users, AF/TE, SAF/AQ,
PEOs/SPOs, HQ AFMC, and TE Centers to deliver
effective TE capacity and capabilities now and
in the future.

• Its a Necessary Response to these Forcing
  Functions
• NDAA 03 and the FY08 POM
• New rules, new restrictions, and less money
• Extended period of neglected infrastructure
• Deferred maintenance and improvements
• Reqt for advocacy of national TE capabilities
• No single program or center can afford these
  assets out of hide
• Reqt for agile acquisition and expected
  efficiencies
• Working together in parallel, not separately and
  sequentially

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Collaboration/Teaming Will Be Crucial to Future
Success

• REQUIREMENTS
• Current Test Programs (Capacity) vs TE
  Infrastructure (Capability)
• AF TE Roadmap UNPRECEDENTED
• AFMC/DO, AF/TE, AFOTEC, AFFTC, 46th TW, AEDC
• Cooperation Collaboration Coherency
• Teaming at all levels GOSG, Executive
  Leadership Team, and below(where all the work is
  really done!)
• POLICY
• NDAA 03 Protocols (Rules on DBA vs RBA, billing,
  single/multi-users)
• DTE / IOTE / FOTE / FDE (Independence but also
  Collaboration)
• PROCESS
• What programs to take onWho will take themHow
  Much to take on
• WHO WILL DECIDE what gets funded and what gets
  deferred?!
• PRIORITIZATION
• Current Future Infrastructure (Capabilities)
  and Current Programs (Capacity)
• Each of these must be prioritized at a level
  recognized as Authoritative!
• EXECUTION
• Current Year changes to Mission Reqts, Program
  Costs, Schedule Slips
• Each of these must be adjudicated at a level
  recognized as Authoritative!

The AF TE RoadmapTHE PATH to an Authoritative
Enterprise!
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Air Force Test EvaluationEnterprise

• NOT just another bumper sticker!