AFRL’s Digital Capabilities Directorate facilitates the delivery of new capability to the warfighter at the speed of relevance to enhance our technical and investment decision processes; seamlessly connect with our peers, collaborators, key stakeholders, and acquisition decision processes; and improve our execution efficiency.

We employ our mantra of Model, Analyze, Decide, Execute (MADE) to Accelerate and pervade every level of AFRL to develop and implement the digital techniques, training, and information technology ecosystem to empower our workforce.

The DCD focuses its resources on the most impactful technologies, concepts, and risk-reduction activities to achieve its four enduring Strategic Goals. Each goal is anchored by a set of objectives to be accomplished in the next five years, all of which include supporting actions that will be captured and updated in the Digital Transformation Action Plan.

• FASTER RESEARCH - Accelerated Research, Experimentation, and Innovation
• STREAMLINED TRANSITIONS - Seamless Entrance into Acquisition and Implementation
• BETTER DECISIONS - Analytically Rigorous Technical, Business, and Operations Decisions
• LOW-FRICTION BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS - Flexible and Responsive Business and Operations

• AFRL Data Marketplace
• Cross Domain Solutions & Multi-Level Security
• Worldwide Research Collaboration Environments
• Capability Based Investment Planning
• Hybrid Multi-Cloud IT Architecture

• Department of the Air Force Digital Guide
• Department of the Air Force Digital Transformation Office
• AFMC Digital Transformation
• Defense Innovation Unit