Tag: AIR
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Does anyone really want air hand-dryers around? I mean, they’re loud and they don’t work. You might as well have a sign that says “dry your hands off on your clothes.”
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European HVAC – Air conditioners to be big in Europe?
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Link: Mission capability delivered at startup speed
More coverage of the US Air Force going all in on digital XP, lean design, and cloud native to dramatically – almost unbelievably so – modernize their software. The mission capabilities these war fighters received in 120 days or less span deliberate targeting, mission reporting, advanced target production, refueling operations and many more, saving over…
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Link: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation
Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being preferable to correcting the shortfalls of an entire software suite. Changes requested by the customer can sometimes be delivered in just a couple days. Prior to Jigsaw, the tanker mission planners would use whiteboards to plot out their fueling rendezvous.…
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Link: The Air Force Will Treat Computer Coding Like a Foreign Language
For example, when Defense Innovation Unit went to air operations centers in Middle East, the defense tech expert envisioned software changes that would optimize the way that airmen tracked refueling tankers. Teaming up with a commercial firm in Boston called Pivotal Labs, the new software is saving about $200,000 in fuel every month. It’s usually…
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Link: Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower
“We have a small team that was tired of working this way and tired of not being able to provide this capability to our warfighters,” said Adam Furtado (pictured), chief product officer at the U.S. Air Force. “Basically, Congress told us to figure something new out.” And: “We’ve been designing a brand new system to…
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Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run
More coverage of the USAF modernizing their approach to software. Here, what some of the apps are: “Kessel Run has been able to push five applications to the classified network, Kroger said…. The project is currently working on a number of things, including how the Air Force plans air tasking orders, a document which tasks…
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US Air Force & Pivotal digitizing flight-ops together – $2.7m contract
The $2.7 million contract involved in the program is between the Air Force and a Silicon Valley company, Pivotal Inc., that has often worked with large corporations such as Ford and Home Depot. The effort is expected to reach beyond the operations center in Qatar to eventually assist in similar U.S. military facilities across the world.…
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A long wait for a scanning machine can induce many of us to start asking ourselves if we have perhaps after all left home with an explosive device hidden in our case, or unwittingly submitted to a months-long terrorist training course. A Week at the Airport, Alain de Botton
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