As a member of the COI group team, members will participate based on your diligent management and managers will facilitate the connection of AU subject-matter experts with others on topics of interest to the community. We all have full-time responsibilities, but in only a few hours a week you and your fellow COI group managers can help the AU network address issues, critique approaches and improve the intellectual foundation of proposed solutions. By spending a few minutes each day fostering and facilitating communications, group managers harness the COI’s collective wisdom and help AU discover whether COIs can spark the organizational agility called for in the AF Strategy and Future Operating Concept. We hope to maintain between two and five managers on each group’s team.
Why you would you want to be an AU COI group manager? You will:
Build, support and lead a virtual team that focuses on challenging issues
Facilitate your team’s exchange of ideas and collaborate on solutions with other experts
Develop connections that help you and others establish networks of thinkers and operators
Play a critical role in AU’s proof-of-concept experiment to create an agile organization
Responsibilities of the group management team include:
Inviting, adding, and deleting members of the group
Fostering collaboration through the use of online tools (likes, comments and ratings)
Monitoring action to guide the COI through minefields that threaten the group’s momentum
Maintaining the COI’s energy by encouraging posts and adding content to spark discussion
Working with other COI teams and the AU integration cell to establish ROE and adjust fire
Rules of Engagement (ROE) for Everyone
Be nice.
When commenting on someone’s Ideas, be nice.
When someone is chewing you up in the comments, be nice.
If they become personal, warn them, be nice, and then pull the abuse trigger.
Please like, comment on and rate (Stars) on comments, posts, etc., as much as possible.
When posting a discussion be prepared to be responsive, after all you started the discussion.
It’s always a good thing to welcome new members of the group and see if they need help.
Check out the support forums and How To links.
Use tags – tags categorize content for searching and ranking importance along with likes, etc.
If you develop a wiki, please be responsive to its content, and review periodically.
Check back to this document often as we will update it as we move along.
Its always a great idea to fully complete your profile. This adds to your credibility, especially with people you don’t know. You should always insert a professional profile picture, it’s one of the best ways to add to your persona as an expert. You can open the APAN
As always, if you have suggestions please let us know in the comments or contact us via the contact form.
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FROM BREAKING DEFENSE (*Link Below*):
CAPITOL HILL: The Joint Staff is developing a new Joint Warfighting Concept to define the American way of war by the end of the year, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Hyten. A key goal of the concept will be defining Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) as a concept, as well as its requirements.
Hyten stressed that developing JADC2 is one of the highest priorities of Hyten…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1o9L2epXYU
https://www.c4isrnet.com/it-networks/2020/01/23/how-the-army-and-air-force-are-linking-comms/
In preparing to fight together simultaneously across multiple domains, the U.S. Air Force, Army, and most recently the Navy Chief of Operations have started discussions on creating a unified, integrated Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) network. This new system will be critical to the U.S. military, allies, and partners in rapidly synchronizing the fight of tomorrow…
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The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board in fiscal year 2020 is conducting three studies under the direction of the service's secretary that focus on modern communications technology, autonomous systems and space applications, according to a notice published in December.
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The Air Force designates its Shadow Operations Center as the location to confirm the key tactics needed for Joint multidomain operations.
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In this article on The Journal, an educational technology journal, this explosive growth over the…
Recently Air University (AU) has experienced a shift in the thought applied and use of emerging technologies in our Educational programs. As an organization that is traditionally vertical in its method of thought applied to emerging technologies, we think about cost, value and application for a level of student.
In the past 12 months AU has begun to experience more and more ways that new and innovative technology can…
DARPA's AI Next Campaign
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For more than five decades, DARPA has been a leader in generating groundbreaking research and development (R&D) that facilitated the advancement and application of rule-based and statistical-learning based AI technologies. Today, DARPA continues to lead innovation in AI research as it funds a broad portfolio of R&D programs, ranging from…
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A most notable, and interesting increase is the building out…
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By Dave “Sugar” Lyle
When you are talking about the command and control of forces that could potentially destroy human society as we know it, you owe it to the rest of humanity to be very precise with your terms and concepts – matters of such extreme importance require the greatest degree of conceptual due…