SECAF: This is about lethality and mission effectiveness

Innovation: We need to strive for military innovation to give us the competitive advantage. Our near peer enemies will pursue military innovations, thus, this endeavor will be ongoing.

NASA effect: NASA is instrumental with developing new technologies and inventions. There will be positive unintended impact from developing new technologies.

New weapons systems, vehicles, aircraft, training, and platforms might change our tactics and doctrine. Post WWI Germany conducted an extensive AAR on the war. A significant military problem was the inability to maneuver quickly in the battlefield. The German answer was developing mobile tanks which changed tactics and doctrine.

Networking: It is crucial to route information efficiently from start to finish with relevancy and purpose in mind. Where and how do we connect the dots between systems?

Innovation and technological advancements in every known science and every aspect of our human experience has been pretty much a daily expectation since, well, whenever it wasn’t...which, I think, was just prior to our caveman grandfather discovering fire. After that momentous event, our predecessors have been trying to out-invent each other with each new sunrise, or so it has seemed. Innovation has been no less important to the military complex. When I first joined the Navy in 1969, my speedy, little destroyer, a remnant from WWII, was idea of a real Navy man’s ship. She was old but she was perfect. In 2012, I visited Norfolk NAS, I was almost speechless by the size of the new Navy destroyers. And I could easily picture in my mind what they looked like underneath those super-sleek designs. The new super-super aircraft carriers were as big as Albuquerque!!!

Innovation, whether we’re talking toasters or torpedoes, means, quite simply, we will never, hopefully, get caught with our pants down. So far, that’s proven true in every engagement in which America’s military has been involved (exception - when Democrats run things...e.g. Vietnam). So, “Katy, Bar The Door,” bring on the new toys. I’d go back in a heartbeat just to play with them!!!