Air Force to accelerate R&D through AFWERX

August 18, 2021 | Amy French

Air Force Col. Nathan Diller, director of AFWERX, explained in a keynote Wednesday his organization aims to transform capability development in the Air Force by lowering barriers to partnerships with the private sector.

“We are looking to find better ways of partnering with that research and development that is happening in the commercial sector,” Diller said. “And to do it so that we can create these agile, these affordable capabilities. To do it in a way that accelerates not just our ability to use them in (the Air Force), but accelerates them broadly for use across our entire nation – for the phenomenal benefits that may come from putting the human in the right place for the right task at the right time. That is really the core of what we’re looking to do in autonomy.”