WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio —
Air Power Materiel Command uniformed and civilian Airmen are invited to submit their game-changing concepts now to compete within the 2024 Air Power Spark Tank competitors, with the submission window open from July 7 to Aug. 11, 2023.
The highest 5 most progressive concepts will probably be “pitched” to a panel of AFMC senior leaders in Oct. 2023. The AFMC Commander’s Accelerated Initiatives workplace will monitor all submissions for alignment to the 2024 Air Power-wide Spark Tank competitors.
The Air Power Spark Tank is an annual competitors that leverages the inherent innovation of Airmen and Guardians, and it empowers them to make use of their problem-solving expertise and creativity to resolve the service’s most important wants. Successful concepts are supplied with the sources and funding to drive them to implementation and success. AFMC’s Undertaking FoX, a finalist within the 2022 competitors, is one instance of Spark Tank success, and it’s now a part of the Air Power vice chief of workers’s Innovation Portfolio the place it continues to revolutionize software program growth and fielding.
Concepts have to be submitted by way of the Guardians and Airmen Innovation Community, or GAIN app, hosted on the Division of Protection’s Platform One, and they need to have the potential to make important impacts on Air Power missions inside a six-month to two-year time-frame. The GAIN software will probably be used for all ranges of the Spark Tank competitors.
To create a Platform One account, people ought to go to https://login.dso.mil/ utilizing a Widespread Entry Card-enabled system. After making a Platform One account, people can create a GAIN account at https://acquire.apps.dso.mil.
For added info and questions on the AFMC competitors, contact the AFMC Commanders Accelerated Initiatives staff at afmc.cdx.workflow@us.af.mil.
