Overview
This coming academic year, the Office of Research and Innovation (OR&I) will launch a speaker series on national security, bringing experts to campus to explore how research and innovation contribute to resilience and preparedness in addressing complex global challenges. Additional speakers will be announced this fall.
On June 22, OR&I is partnering with the College of Engineering's Paul P. Chevis Endowment Seminar Series, which is hosting a campus visit by Richard A. Vaia, Ph.D., an expert in national security research.
Bringing the Future Faster
The future of Air and Space technologies will be as unrecognizable from today as the early Wright Flyer and Goddard’s rockets are from today’s air and spacecraft. However, the crucial role of AFRL science and technology innovation will remain unchanged – it will be the essential ingredient that enables the Department of the Air Force to protect our service members and country today and tomorrow, ensuring our decision loop stays inside that of our adversary. Success hinges on a fundamental shift in the approach: from asking 'what is the next isolated capability' to 'how do we accelerate the very process of innovation.' By pivoting toward agile, available, and modular systems-of-systems concepts, we will rapidly field the scalable technologies required to out-pace threats and dictate the terms of asymmetric conditions.
