#60 Swallow on Air Force Studies, Analyses and Assessments

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During this episode,</span> <strong><a href= "https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1657930/robert-chandler-swallow"> Chan Swallow</a></strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">discusses the Air Force’s A9 office, as well as how the Air Force builds capability while confronting technology acquisition tradeoffs. The wide ranging conversation also covers manpower and talent acquisition issues--especially the competition for talent which can take raw data and turn it into actionable insights.</span></p> <p><strong>Link to full show notes and resources</strong></p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-60</span></p> <p><strong>Guest Bio</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">: </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert Chandler Swallow, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Principal Deputy Director, Studies, Analyses and Assessments, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He is responsible for the development of Air Force-wide policy, guidance, and analyses that inform Air Force leadership decisions concerning current and future warfighting capabilities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Swallow was the Technical Director for the Joint Warfare Analysis Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. Leading the JWAC advancement of targeting analysis with a focus on providing future combatant commanders with more targeting options faster, he worked across the interagency to provide modeling and simulation, network analysis, wargaming, and operations research optimized weapons pairings that leveraged emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and directed energy to conduct conventional, cyber, information, space, economic, and gray zone warfare. Specific partnerships with U.S. Cyber Command, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Air Comba