Life and Times of an Air Force Program Element Monitor

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Life and Times of an Air Force Program Element
Monitor

• NEVILLE A. D. THOMPSON
• CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS
• PROGRAM ELEMENT MONITOR

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Air Force Program Element Monitor

• AF Science and Technology Organization
• What is a Program Element Monitor?
• AFRL Munitions Directorate

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AF Science TechnologyOrganization
Policy
POM Organize Train Equip
Air Force Space Command
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Science, Technology
Engineering)
Test Centers
Air Force Research Laboratory
Plan Execute
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Science and Technology Division
Chief
Secretary Ms. Donna Wagner Barr
Col David Richards
Deputy Chief
Mr. Michael Flynn
Munitions Mr. Neville Thompson
Air Vehicles Dr. Ken Iwanski Mr. Doug
Jones (A-TEAM)
Information Dr. Paul Phister Mr. Art Hepler
(A-TEAM)
Space Vehicles LTC Lester Ogawa Ms. Anne
Callahan (A-TEAM)
Directed Energy Mr. John Haynes (AFRL) Mr. Ray
Orie (A-Team)
Propulsion LTC Anthony Mitchell Mr. Russell
Luehrsen (A-TEAM)
Materials Manuf. Mr. John Barnes (AFRL) Mr.
Jerry Lautenschlager (A-Team)
Human Effectiveness Lt Col Patrick Bradshaw Mr.
Jerry Lautenschlager (A-TEAM)
Sensors Major Scott Nowlin
Basic Research Dr. White
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AFRL Major Sites
WRIGHT-PATTERSON PROPULSION (PR) AIR VEHICLES
(VA) SENSORS (SN) MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING
(ML) HUMAN EFFECTIVENESS (HE) COLLABORATIVE C2
(IF)
HQ AFRL
ROME INFORMATION (IF) SURVEILLANCE (SN)
HANSCOM BATTLE SPACE ENVIRONMENTS (VS)
ELECTROMAGNETICS (SN)
EDWARDS ROCKET PROPULSION (PR)
BALLSTON AIR FORCE OFFICE
OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (AFOSR)
MESA SIMULATORS, DISTRIBUTED MISSION TRAINING
(HE)
BROOKS CITY- BASE TRAINING, BIOEFFECTS,
AEROSPACE PHYSIOLOGY (HE)
KIRTLAND DIRECTED ENERGY (DE) SPACE VEHICLES
(VS)
TYNDALL AIR BASE TECHNOLOGY (ML)
EGLIN MUNITIONS (MN)
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Definitions-Program Element

• A Program Element (PE) is an OSD construct that
  is a description of a mission by the
  identification of the organizational entities and
  resources needed to perform the assigned mission.
  
• A Program is a set of activities directed toward
  a common purpose, objective, or goal undertaken
  or proposed by an agency in order to carry out
  responsibilities/mission assigned to it.

Programs Science and Technology Programs for
AFRL
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Major Force Programs PE Groupings
The first two digits of the PE is its MFP
OTHER

• 3010,20,80
• 3600

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Munitions Program Element
Conventional Munitions
Basic Research
Conventional Weapons Technology
Tech DemoFlight Tests
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What is a PEM?

• PEM Program Element Monitor
• The person appointed oversight responsibility for
  a specific program element. The program element
  expert on the Air Force staffknowledgeable of
  the program(s) financial requirements (funded and
  unfunded) and financial execution
• The focal point on staff for the program element
  (and associated programs)
• Information broker some say advocate
• Critical to program success

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PEM

• Program Element Monitor -
• Program banker Juggle 3 concurrent funding
  streams
• Execution, Budget, and Program years
• Program financial broker
• Bills, Reprogrammings, Swaps, Obs Exps
• Information Broker - Inside the beltway
  spokesman and inside the building shoe leather
• Interface w/OSD, Joint Staff Sister Services,
  Congress and Media
• Good Duty if youre detail oriented, proficient
  w/numbers, good comm skills/memory, and like to
  network
• Chance to influence decisions and policy process

The Wash DC Program Spokesman
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The PEMand the Execution Yr

• Initial release of funds
• PA/BA, justifications for greater than 80
  initial release
• Withholds request for release
• Taxes SBIR, Congress, DoD, Air Force
• Congressional Adds/Reductions
• Supplementals
• Reprogrammings
• New Start packages (notifications/approvals)
• Obs and Exps funds defense

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The PEMand the Budget Yr

• Comptroller Reviews budget defense
• Research funding documents (R docs)
• Staffer Days
• Testimony Preparation
• Congressional Appeals budget defense

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The PEMand the Programming Yrs

• Programming Guidance development
• Baseline extension
• Panel parades Program defense
• Unfunded and Underfunded issues
• AF Group/Board/Council Brfgs
• Program excursionsWhat if drills

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Other PEM Duties

• Staffing and coordinating programmatic documents
• Normalization, functional alignment, etc
• Working customer
• Warfighter
• People in the field

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The PEMs Network
Depot
J-8
AFOTEC
COCOM
AFRL
ILP
SPO
PA
DOTE
PEM
ACC
PAE
AQX
ATL
LL/FML
FMBI
Working this Network is the Key to success!
XPP
OSD/C
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PEMs do the Heavy Lifting?financially speaking

• True
• False

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PEMs worktheir network?

• True
• False

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PEMs strive to knowthe details, no matter what?

• True
• False

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PEMs help frame lofty issuesfor senior
leadership

• True
• False

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PEMs work programming, budget, and EXECUTION
issues

• True
• False

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• AFRL organization
• What is a Program Element Monitor?
• AFRL Munitions Directorate

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Munitions Directorate Organization
Executive Officer Capt Sean Dorey
Director Col Dan Morin
Associate Director Dr. John Pletcher, Jr.
Deputy Director Mr John White
Chief Scientist Dr. Bob Sierakowski
Munitions Directorate Product Divisions
Adv Guidance Division Mr James Moore
Ordnance Division Mr Scott Teel
Assess Demo Division Lt Col William Hack
Corp Development Ms Mary Perry
IntOps Division Mr Rich Mook
Financial Mr Paul Higgins
Senior IMA Col Mark Koch
Contracting Maj Wayne Register
QAESOH Division Mr Dale Palmer
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GBU-28 Bunker Buster
MN MISSION Lead the discovery, development,
integration and transition of affordable
munitions technologies for our air and space force
Powered Standoff Weapon AGM-130
Laser Guided Munitions
Advance Unitary Penetrator (AUP)
Powered Low Cost Autonomous Attack System
(PLOCAAS)
Hard Target Smart Fuze (HTSF)
AMRAAM
Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-Off Missile (JASSM)
Small Smart Bomb (SSB)
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)
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Munitions Directorate Assigned Personnel
As of 6 Dec 2006
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Munitions Directorate's Investment(FY07-13 from
FY08 POM 78M/year)
Ordnance
36
39
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Integration Assessment
Guidance Control
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Munitions Directorate's Ordnance Investment
Warheads/Damage Mechanisms
38
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36
Fuzes
Explosives/ Energetic Materials
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Munitions Directorate'sGuidance Control
Investment
Information Exploitation
Tactical Navigation
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Autonomous/ Cooperative Control Datalinks
9
16
53
Seeker, Sensors Signatures
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Munitions Directorate'sIntegration Assessment
Investment(
Lethality Vulnerability Assessment
Micro Munition Technology
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2
14
60
Computational Physics
System Integration
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Munitions Programs

• Massive Ordnance Penetrator
• Small Diameter Bomb

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Conventional Munitions Low Collateral Damage
Munition Technologies

• New Effective Mechanism to Reduce Collateral
  Damage, Preventing Unattended Damage to Personnel
  and Material
• Combines
• New Explosive Multi-Phase Blast Explosive
• New Warhead Case Material - Carbon Fiber

Develop High Near-Field, and Low Far-Field
Warhead Lethality
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Conventional Munitions Low Collateral Damage
Munition Technologies
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• Air Force Science and Technology Organization
• What is a Program Element Monitor?
• AFRL Munitions Directorate

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Questions?