About the Integrated Capabilities Directorate (RS)

It is the mission of AFRL's Integrated Capabilities directorate to accelerate the department's future force through cross-discipline collaboration and be the DAF's leading source of operationally relevant future force solutions. Our common values are to be technologically agnostic, react to clear demand signals without hidden agendas, demonstrate a willingness to pivot, and strive to change bureaucracy. 

The RS strategy is to be the leading source of operationally relevant capabilities that tackle the Department’s most urgent operational and Future Force needs with transition-ready solutions by aligning 6.2 to 6.6 investments and partnering with external stakeholders around technologically agnostic, operationally relevant, and analytically sound solution sets. Each Office within the Integrated Capabilities directorate provides critical investments to enable this strategy.

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AFRL/RS Leadership

AFRL TECHNOLOGY

The Four RS Missions

We are four missions united under one directorate:
  • TRANSFORMATIONAL CAPABILITIES OFFICE (TCO)
    Develop technology for leap-ahead capabilities supporting capability development needs ready for engineering, manufacturing and development in 4-5 years. AFRL S&T Mission (6.2--6.3 Execution)

NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE – 3 (NTS-3)

Role in the Great Power Competition

Focusing on Strategic Capability
  • Integrated Capabilities Directorate addresses challenges from both air and space domains. They organize capability-focused investments for providing: targeting of the adversary, reduced exposure to adversary targeting, communication and coordination of forces, and logistical support to the employment of forces.
Integrating Across DAF Capability Development
  • Integrated Capabilities Directorate executes capability development activities with robust partnering across other DAF stakeholders. These partnerships span future force planners, program executive offices, major commands, and field commands to prepare emerging solutions for transition.
Integrating Across AFRL
  • Integrated Capabilities Directorate leverages, connects, and partners with all other AFRL Directorates in pursuit and execution of integrated technology solutions to warfighting challenges. AFRL/RS serves as an integrating hub that draws from the skills and insights of many AFRL experts.

RS Capabilities Summary

WHO WE ARE
  • Expanded AFRL/RS mission sets in August 2022
    • Four unique offices, one common focus on integrated capability solutions
    • CRI – Rapid Operational Innovation
    • TCO – Transformational Technology Demonstrations
    • Capability Development – mission engineering and experimentation for AFMC IDO
    • Architecture – System Engineering support for C3BM
  • Reorganizing to align to DAF Great Power Competition in fall 2024
WHY WE EXIST
  • AFRL/RS complements the other organizations in AFRL
  • AFRL/RS provides an organizational home to dynamic missions
  • Each of these mission drives out capability-focused solutions for the DAF
HOW WE ARE ORGANIZED
  • Organized by technology or capability development mission area
  • DAF-wide mandate, supporting US Air Force and US Space Force
  • Headquartered at WPAFB, OH, geographically distributed across six states
HOW WE DO BUSINESS
  • Four engagement and investment models, supported by one directorate
  • Robust network with DAF planners/operators and technical SMEs across AFRL
WHAT ARE WE INVESTING IN
  • Strategy informed investments for future warfighting advantages
  • Portfolios align 6.2-6.6 funding around strategic capabilities

AFRL/RS TEAM

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