Aloha and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou, (Happy New Year)
The APAN Staff has been actively working on transitioning the APAN environments into the Amazon Web Services Cloud infrastructure. We are on schedule to make this happen within the next six months. The…
For those unaware, the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) has two compliance levels, but only one – Level 1 (L1) – utilizes SysML. NAVAIR’s MBSE path forward relies heavily on SysML, so it would make the most sense to create your UPDM/DoDAF models…
Charlie Winter
7 December 2017
1100 CST (1200 EST)
GCKN Adobe Connect Meeting Room
https://connect.apan.org/smetalk/
Sanford Friedenthal and Christopher Oster have a new book out titled "Architecting Spacecraft with SysML" which is a more robust and updated version of Chapter 4 from the "Advances in System Engineering" book.
While I haven't received…
Topic:Designing Unmanned Systems for the Multi-Domain Battle: Accelerating the Adoption of Augmented Intelligence
Presenter: George Galdorisi, Director for Strategic Assessments and Technical Futures at SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
Date/ Time: 2-3PM…
Operationalizing Big Data
What we can learn from Videogames and Professional Sports
Robert E. Smith, PhD.
What we can learn from Videogames and Professional sports.
Contact: Robert E. Smith, PHd
Robert.e.smith1699.civ@mail.mil
Preeminent conference from India on geopolitics and geoeconomics
This is a reminder that there are 60 days left to send in your submissions to our 2017 Call for Ideas!
Submissions must be in by 2 DEC 2017 and can be PAPERS, VIDEOS, ARTWORK, or GAMES.
Topics include the convergence of neuro, information, bio, nano…
New Call for Ideas are being accepted. Please visit the Calls for Ideas section to download the details.
Call for Ideas: Soldier 2050 is the subject. There are many suggested topics.
In less than a week, Mr. Peter David will be presenting via TeleCon the speaking series: Science Fiction verses Science Funding.
Please join TRADOC Mad Scientist in collaboration with Sergeants Major Academy (SMA) on 13 September 2017 at 1300 Eastern…
A Search and Rescue (SAR) Map has been set up in APAN based on data organized by Hurricane Harvey Volunteer Rescue (HHVR) and coordinated through Humanity Road. Rescue status of those in need will be displayed on the map periodically as updates come…
In less than two weeks, the next session with Mr. Peter David focusing on 'Comparing What We Imagine to What We Invent" will be discussed. Session starts promptly at 13:00 Eastern Standard Time and will general last for one hour on 13 September…
This issue of Red Diamond opens with part two of an article series on the Russian Snow Dome. Starting in the days of the Tsarist Empire, Russian Ground Forces were built around their artillery. This doctrine extended throughout the Cold War, explaining…
The video, released by scientists at UW–Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), was captured by the GOES-16, one of the world’s most advanced weather satellites.
The satellite photographed the Earth once every five minutes…
What is Secretary of Defense James Mattis' current position on effects and effects based approaches to operations?
Effects Based Operations was a methodology for planning military operations that had flowed out of a number of previous methodologies…
Some Fundamental Concepts of C2 in Contested Environments
Lt Col Dave Lyle, LeMay Center Strategy & Concepts
The challenges of command and control in contested environments are not new, nor should they surprise us. General Helmuth Von Moltke the Younger…
This is a thought piece produced by collaboration amongst Air University C2 subject matter experts, led and edited by LeMay Center Strategy & Concepts, to address a question from an Air Force senior leader, asking if the Air Tasking Order had become…
C2 and Operational Art Literature Review – September 2017
(Arranged in chronological order - please send any additional nominations for the next update to david.lyle.1@us.af.mil)
The Evolution of Operational Art, Brigade Commander Georgii Samoilovich…
The U.S. military, and therefore, the U.S. Army, finds itself at a historical inflection point, where disparate, yet related elements of the Operational Environment (OE) are converging, creating a situation where fast moving trends across the Diplomatic…
What’s New in DATE 3.0
Due to operational requirements, we did not have an ASI in June. Two ASI's are scheduled for July 2017:
ASI / Security Patching (25 July) 0800-1700 HST
ASI / Code Release (27 July) 0800-1700 HST
Thank you for your patience and understanding.- Your…