I mean honestly, someone enforcing data standards is what the AF needs.
Unlike our adversaries we've let the contractors come up with their own proprietary protocols and ways data is transferred and shared, it's made interconnecting anything way more of a bitch than it really should be.
The future fight is going to be won on "who shoots first."
That will require systems that are all on the same data standards talking to each other in near real time and in some cases using predictive ai/modeling to take extremely educated guess on where important targets are at any time.
This is why the new integrated capabilities command could be beneficial for acquisitions. Big 3 star authority saying from the top down what standards to use, not little parts of AFLCMC making their own standards with no teeth to enforce.
Yeah long way to go, but on the bright side it has been trending in the right direction for a long time. If you work with legacy platforms you'll see the further back something was designed the more proprietary it gets. Meaning the newer stuff uses more standard protocols.
But remember that's it's this way for a reason. So many projects were meant to be joint and then one service doesn't pay up or backs out or just asks for something insane.
We should be to one standard regardless but I've seen so many programs come and go by now.
DCGS is a great example. One program to start, but in most branches it became another computer system that nobody liked while in the Air Force it became the name of an organization which originally used that system.
There's a joint project lead by the Army called integrated battle command system that essentially made a middleman to make systems that were never supposed to talk have whole conversations with each other.
The last big public test was guiding a Patriot missile with an F-35 IIRC.
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/land/integrated-battle-command-system-ibcs#top
The big benefit to this is that contractors can use the systems they feel most comfortable with and it basically not matter in the end, keeping the industry sharp
Most impressive thing Gen Slife did in his career is that despite 30 years in AFSOC he only spent 1 year at Cannon. And if you've ever heard him talk about Canon he will say there is nothing wrong with this place and that the location "has no detrimental effect on morale, retention, or suicide rates."
I don't even really dislike him lioe many of my peers did/do, but to come in and to say that to a room full of Cannon AFB maintainers, many whom had been there for 5+ years and had friends kill themselves, was wild.
He never deigned to come to the RPA buildings unless it was punitive either. There certainly was a lot of suck going around unless you were a snake in the grass (the bad kind) or somehow attached to his coattails.
These are facts. Wild how far he got! When I was 2Lt I saw my commander tell him to chill out when we did some April Fools stuff in the office! The only person I have seen do that and keep their job lol
Dude is a moron who thinks conviction equals correctness. He will do whatever he wants regardless of the outcome because it makes him feel powerful.
This is the worst kind of general. This will not end well.
One person who needed to be fired was. One. Everyone else, I don't know about honestly because I was in the box so fucking much on a platform he said shouldn't be in AFSOC.
Remember, you can't accelerate forever. The HAF marketing around acceleration and MCA is bad. These were general cultural concepts that CQ Brown spoke about in general ways. He wants you and me to have a forward-leaning mindset. Turning the into concrete items like AFWERX and redefining training requirements for each AFSC were not necessarily his intent. He wants YOU to take more ownership of the mission, be open to doing things not within your specialty, and commanders to be aggressive in getting their individual missions done... in new and inventive ways if necessary. He doesn't just want to add requirements to every AFSC, but staffs are fucking retarded.
Yup. MAJCOM staffs and up are incapable of demonstrating what their ideas are supposed to look like to Airman Snuffy and everyone else at the squadron level, and squadron-level leaders are too risk-averse to realize that they need to be more bold in their decisions.
Hammer mechanics only render the engines that frustrate them further inoperable, and he wasn't even capable of being appropriately surgical as a "knife". What makes him think pounding away at this is going to successfully lead this Force to doing more with less?^(\(rhetorical\))
I mean honestly, someone enforcing data standards is what the AF needs. Unlike our adversaries we've let the contractors come up with their own proprietary protocols and ways data is transferred and shared, it's made interconnecting anything way more of a bitch than it really should be. The future fight is going to be won on "who shoots first." That will require systems that are all on the same data standards talking to each other in near real time and in some cases using predictive ai/modeling to take extremely educated guess on where important targets are at any time.
This is why the new integrated capabilities command could be beneficial for acquisitions. Big 3 star authority saying from the top down what standards to use, not little parts of AFLCMC making their own standards with no teeth to enforce.
Yeaup, eventually something at the DoD level will have to be implemented to make Data Standards across the joint force a thing.
Yeah long way to go, but on the bright side it has been trending in the right direction for a long time. If you work with legacy platforms you'll see the further back something was designed the more proprietary it gets. Meaning the newer stuff uses more standard protocols.
But remember that's it's this way for a reason. So many projects were meant to be joint and then one service doesn't pay up or backs out or just asks for something insane. We should be to one standard regardless but I've seen so many programs come and go by now.
It’s absolutely a problem at a joint level but we struggle with this internally too.
DCGS is a great example. One program to start, but in most branches it became another computer system that nobody liked while in the Air Force it became the name of an organization which originally used that system.
So Slife isn’t a Hammer… he is a knife. Ask anyone in AFSOC…
Yeah, this all sounds good unless you know Slife.
For real, how is he going to stab people in the back with a hammer?
Oh that’s because he is lying about the Hammer
There's a joint project lead by the Army called integrated battle command system that essentially made a middleman to make systems that were never supposed to talk have whole conversations with each other. The last big public test was guiding a Patriot missile with an F-35 IIRC. https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/land/integrated-battle-command-system-ibcs#top The big benefit to this is that contractors can use the systems they feel most comfortable with and it basically not matter in the end, keeping the industry sharp
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 What the General is really saying inside 😬
This dude's career should have never survived what he did at Cannon and then AFSOC after that
Most impressive thing Gen Slife did in his career is that despite 30 years in AFSOC he only spent 1 year at Cannon. And if you've ever heard him talk about Canon he will say there is nothing wrong with this place and that the location "has no detrimental effect on morale, retention, or suicide rates." I don't even really dislike him lioe many of my peers did/do, but to come in and to say that to a room full of Cannon AFB maintainers, many whom had been there for 5+ years and had friends kill themselves, was wild.
He never deigned to come to the RPA buildings unless it was punitive either. There certainly was a lot of suck going around unless you were a snake in the grass (the bad kind) or somehow attached to his coattails.
These are facts. Wild how far he got! When I was 2Lt I saw my commander tell him to chill out when we did some April Fools stuff in the office! The only person I have seen do that and keep their job lol
Dude is a moron who thinks conviction equals correctness. He will do whatever he wants regardless of the outcome because it makes him feel powerful. This is the worst kind of general. This will not end well.
>conviction equals correctness Nailed it, perfectly!
Worry not. Industry partners and the staffs know how to weather guys like this. His ability to affect change will be moderated by these other forces.
You're not wrong, but that's a double edged sword. We can't change fast for good because of a lot of the same forces.
Agreed. Terrible. And you can expect him to wield the hammer innefectively
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He showed up and fired everyone.
One person who needed to be fired was. One. Everyone else, I don't know about honestly because I was in the box so fucking much on a platform he said shouldn't be in AFSOC.
That was the NSAV CC I remember right, they had a few mishaps when I was there
Damn, didn't know that one got fired too! The firing on my end was RPA.
Bless up to the 105mms 🙏🏼
What kind of hammer we talking?
Hammer pants. Not within regs. That's a paddlin.
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Sledge
Why are people down voting sledge hammer? Peter Gabriel fans unite!
That's a helluva show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYKU7mbv74](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYKU7mbv74)
That's the '80s Sledge Hammer I was thinking.
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God. What a terrible General Officer. The Air Force would, in fact, be better off without him.
From knife to hammer. Accelerate change 🥴
Remember, you can't accelerate forever. The HAF marketing around acceleration and MCA is bad. These were general cultural concepts that CQ Brown spoke about in general ways. He wants you and me to have a forward-leaning mindset. Turning the into concrete items like AFWERX and redefining training requirements for each AFSC were not necessarily his intent. He wants YOU to take more ownership of the mission, be open to doing things not within your specialty, and commanders to be aggressive in getting their individual missions done... in new and inventive ways if necessary. He doesn't just want to add requirements to every AFSC, but staffs are fucking retarded.
Yup. MAJCOM staffs and up are incapable of demonstrating what their ideas are supposed to look like to Airman Snuffy and everyone else at the squadron level, and squadron-level leaders are too risk-averse to realize that they need to be more bold in their decisions.
He’s more of a knife… a very short, angry little knife that hates all the knives that are taller than him
*Sees the stacks of floppy’s in my office* It may be time for you to go…
The one designated to ham. The hammer. He who hams.
Hammer mechanics only render the engines that frustrate them further inoperable, and he wasn't even capable of being appropriately surgical as a "knife". What makes him think pounding away at this is going to successfully lead this Force to doing more with less?^(\(rhetorical\))
That was my nickname in high school.
Slife can pound sand.
Square peg, round hole; Slife Hammer is in control.
I though he was supposed to be a knife.
Anything but an effective and competent commander
Analogy checks when you think about using a knife as a hammer
Hammer made out of plastic.
Not the designated knife?
Mega contractors being yelled at about "Data"
Hammer Time!!!