Schriever Wargame 2010 - Air Force Space Command
Schriever Wargame 2010 - Air Force Space Command
Schriever Wargame 2010 - Air Force Space Command
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is dependent on our allies in today and tomorrow’s joint fight—<br />
we face many of the same problems and need to include our<br />
partners in as many <strong>Schriever</strong> Challenges as possible.<br />
Third, a subset of individuals needs to be permanently crosscleared<br />
to special programs across agencies and across DoD/IC<br />
boundaries. To foster the flow of ideas, empowered individuals<br />
need complete knowledge of what is in the capability toolkit<br />
in order to turn seemingly unrelated components into solutions<br />
that provide synergistic effects for the warfighter. GPS is a<br />
great example by which the <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> provides a position and<br />
timing capability from which the rest of the world develops<br />
unique effects that could never have been imagined if it was<br />
locked in a closet accessible by a limited few who only wanted<br />
it for precision guided munitions.<br />
Fourth, the challenge needs to be results oriented. The <strong>Schriever</strong><br />
<strong>Wargame</strong>’s success is partially due to 500 people knowing<br />
it’s worth taking a break from their normal workloads to be part<br />
of the noble cause of the game and the resulting impact it has on<br />
senior leader thinking. In the case of the <strong>Schriever</strong> Challenge,<br />
senior leadership is presented potential game-changing solutions<br />
that could impact not just thinking, but reality. The best<br />
solutions are given to a commander to implement, further develop,<br />
or refine in the form of a JCTD, TENCAP, new program,<br />
and so forth. Ownership by a commander is essential, otherwise<br />
potential solutions will be shelved in a “Raiders of the<br />
Lost Ark”-type warehouse. Challenge participants could still<br />
work with the solution “owner” to facilitate progress, well after<br />
the challenge’s main event bell has rung, because of the relationships<br />
born out of the cells. Senior leadership can keep tabs<br />
on progress through a <strong>Schriever</strong> Challenge follow-up session in<br />
which the owner/commander presents an update on the good,<br />
bad, and ugly, that is advances, challenges, and administrative<br />
walls that need to be brought down to facilitate development.<br />
The Real Challenge<br />
The <strong>Schriever</strong> Challenge series is a potential idea for the<br />
real challenge—getting bureaucracy to be more responsive in<br />
a world that moves faster than the speed of government. From<br />
Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address the following words<br />
seem as relevant today as they were in 1981:<br />
Government can and must provide opportunity, not<br />
smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. If we look<br />
to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved<br />
so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was<br />
because here in this land we unleashed the energy and<br />
individual genius of man to a greater extent than has<br />
ever been done before. 10<br />
Notes:<br />
1<br />
<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>Space</strong> <strong>Command</strong>, “<strong>Schriever</strong> <strong>Wargame</strong> concludes,” 27<br />
May <strong>2010</strong>, http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123206668<br />
2<br />
Walter J. Boyne, “Red Flag,” <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Magazine 83, no. 11 (November<br />
2000): 44-52, http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/<br />
Documents/2000/November%202000/1100redflag.pdf.<br />
3<br />
Charles Lindbergh Website, “The Spirit of St. Louis Story,” written in<br />
association with the Lindbergh Foundation and the Hall Aviation Foundation,<br />
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/hall/spirit.asp.<br />
4<br />
X Prize Foundation, “Ansari X Prize,” http://space.xprize.org/ansarix-prize<br />
5<br />
DARPA, “MIT Red Balloon Team Wins DARPA Network Challenge,”<br />
news release, 5 December 2009, https://networkchallenge.darpa.<br />
mil/darpanetworkchallengewinner2009.pdf.<br />
6<br />
US <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> official Website, US <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Chief Scientist (AF/ST),<br />
“Technology Horizons - A Vision for <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Science & Technology<br />
During <strong>2010</strong>-2030,” http://www.af.mil/information/technologyhorizons.<br />
asp.<br />
7<br />
Michael Macrone, “The dogs of war,” Brush Up Your Shakespeare,<br />
Cader Company, 1990, eNotes.com. 2007, 17 August <strong>2010</strong>, http://www.<br />
enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/dogs-war.<br />
8<br />
Lt Gen Larry D. James, “<strong>Schriever</strong> V <strong>Wargame</strong>: The Boundaries of<br />
<strong>Space</strong> and Cyberspace,” High Frontier 5, no. 4 (August 2009): 12-13.<br />
9<br />
William J. Lynn, remarks at the National <strong>Space</strong> Symposium, US Department<br />
of Defense, 14 April <strong>2010</strong>, http://www.defense.gov/speeches/<br />
speech.aspx?speechid=1448.<br />
10<br />
American Rhetoric, Ronald Reagan, inaugural address, 20 January<br />
1981, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreagandfirstinaugural.html.<br />
Maj Sam Baxter (BS, Operations<br />
Research, US <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Academy;<br />
MBA, Finance, University of Colorado<br />
at Colorado Springs) is a reservist<br />
assigned to the special programs<br />
division at <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>Space</strong> <strong>Command</strong><br />
with duty in the <strong>Command</strong>er’s Action<br />
Group. Maj Baxter’s military experience<br />
includes space control, science<br />
and technology, strategic planning,<br />
wargames, as well as a satellite and<br />
intercontinental ballistic missile crew<br />
commander, flight commander, instructor, and evaluator. His civilian<br />
experience is in information technology (IT)—a web application<br />
programmer and IT sales manager.<br />
Capt Nicole O’Neal (BS, Applied<br />
Mathematics, North Carolina State<br />
University; MS, Information Technology,<br />
University of Maryland, University<br />
College at Adelphi, MD) is an active<br />
duty service member assigned to the<br />
Special Programs Division at AFSPC.<br />
Capt O’Neal’s military experience includes<br />
strategic and operational planning,<br />
test and evaluation, education<br />
with industry, and wargames.<br />
A <strong>Schriever</strong> Challenge will not answer all of government’s<br />
conundrums and there will always be a need for in-depth study<br />
on the toughest of problems. The hope is a <strong>Schriever</strong> Challenge<br />
can build better relationships, build creative thinking and build<br />
potential solutions for the joint warfighter, so much so, that together<br />
we passionately declare “Keep the walls down!”.<br />
43 High Frontier