The Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC)

#AIRC is always thankful to collaborate with our insightful, innovative and interesting colleagues in the government, academic and industry spheres of the defense community!

The #DCTC pilot program #AIRC is guiding at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Purdue University, University of Arizona and Virginia Tech is connecting with United States Space Force! https://acqirc.org/dctc/

The fifth webinar on the PPBE Reform Commission co-hosted by #AIRC and the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University will take place on December 5 at 1pm ET. Register via the link below to hear insights from: Brynt Parmeter, Chief Talent Management Officer, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Rich Brady, Chief Executive Officer, Society of Defense Financial Management (SDFM) Garry Shafovaloff, Program Manager, Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC) Sharon Jackson, Director for Business, Defense Acquisition University Stephanie Halcrow, AIRC Fellow and Senior Fellow, Baroni Center Jerry McGinn, Ph.D., Executive Director, Baroni Center

#SERC applauds Harsh Anand of University of Virginia, Amirreza Hosseini of Stevens Institute of Technology, John Phillips of Naval Postgraduate School and Mohammadreza Torkjazi of George Mason University for their engaging presentations at the 12th annual SERC Doctoral Student Forum last week, and congratulations to Casey Eaton of the The University of Alabama in Huntsville for winning the forum and earning the Boehm Award. Read about the presentations and download slides in this event recap!

The recording is now available for yesterday's webinar. Thank you to the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting for their excellent partnership! Click below to hear insights on the PPBE Reform Commission from #AIRC Chief Scientist Philip S. Anton, Mark Krzysko and Yousra Fazili of the #DoD, Greg Little of Palantir Technologies, and Baroni Executive Director Jerry McGinn, Ph.D.

Read the recap of last week's #SERC Research Review to see who presented, plus view pictures and download the slides! https://lnkd.in/gcVmsuVv Dinesh Verma Zoe Szajnfarber Tom McDermott Laura Freeman Peter Beling Michael Orosz Sachin Shetty Scott Lucero Bryan Mesmer Mark Blackburn, Ph.D. Hoong Yan See Tao Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

In a new interim technical report, #SERC researchers Peter Beling, Tyler Cody and Stephen Adams of Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech National Security Institute, plus SERC CTO Tom McDermott, discuss their Trusted Artificial Intelligence Systems Engineering Challenge, sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the US Army DEVCOM Armaments Center Systems Engineering Directorate. From their executive summary: "This research addresses the challenge of designing and operating systems that contain AI and autonomy with uncertain performance to provide overall systems behaviors that responsible and trustworthy. Rather than focusing on changes to the AI model to increase trust, this research focuses on developing and improving SE methods to provide this increased level of trust." Seven student teams submitted white papers and presentations for the challenge, representing Purdue University, University of Arizona, The George Washington University, Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, Stevens Institute of Technology and Old Dominion University. Tim Sherburne and Scott Lucero from Virginia Tech also contributed to the project. Lucero presented with Beling at the recent SERC Research Review and the AI4SE & SE4AI Research and Application Workshop. Read the full interim report at https://lnkd.in/eHm3gbMx See presentations slides from the SERC Research Review at https://lnkd.in/e-vrYPCv

A new #AIRC report explores #megaprojects in the #DoD, with insights from Tom McDermott, Zhongyuan Yu, Amro M. Farid, Dennis Folds, Nicole Hutchison, Molly C. Nadolski, Gordon Kranz and Megan Clifford. "The United States Department of Defense has long been a sponsor of megaprojects and continues to transition from more standalone platform-centric systems to mega-systems. Megaproject failures and successes from commercial programs offer lessons learned for improving the performance of Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs), which are often megaprojects and also may be useful for smaller, less complex acquisitions." Read the full report, plus recommendations and a megaproject management playbook at https://lnkd.in/g_wZ37b3 Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

This Thursday, 11/21: Following a three-part webinar series this past summer, #AIRC and the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University will present an additional webinar focused on the PPBE Reform Commission. Panelists include AIRC Chief Scientist Philip S. Anton, Mark Krzysko and Yousra Fazili of the #DoD, Greg Little of Palantir Technologies, and Baroni Executive Director Jerry McGinn, Ph.D. Register for “Modernizing PPBE Business Systems and Data Analytics” via the Baroni Center website at https://lnkd.in/gF_iB5gb Learn more about this topic by reading the nine-part series of reports AIRC conducted for the PPBE commission: https://lnkd.in/gnZ3egTA Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

From everyone at #AIRC, congratulations, Bilyana Anderson! We look forward to working with you and Defense Acquisition University!