AFMC selects Spark Tank finalists for 2023 - Dayton Daily News

The Test Aircraft Virtual Reality “Just successful Time” Solution, submitted by Master Sgt. Jeremy Neilson, Air Force Test Center, and an thought for the Robotics Universal Remote, presented by the squad of Brian Warren and Tech Sgt. Geoffrey Gilmer, besides from the Air Force Test Center, were selected to correspond the bid astatine the adjacent level of competition.

“We are present contiguous due to the fact that we privation to marque the Air Force better,” said Lt. Gen. Carl Schaefer, AFMC lawman commander, who headed the judging sheet astatine the unrecorded event. “For us, it is astir creating a civilization of innovation successful the Air Force, but particularly successful AFMC. Nothing happens successful the remainder of the Air Force without what we do.”

Five semi-finalists had the accidental to contiguous their originative ideas to a elder person sheet that included Schaefer and AFMC Executive Director Lorna Estep, hoping to crook their ground-breaking ideas into a reality. The winners of this contention advancement to the Air Force-level Spark Tank competition.

Neilson’s AFMC Test Aircraft Problem - Virtual Reality “Just successful Time” Solution incorporates virtual world programs into instructional plans to alteration units to scope mandated “Just successful Time” grooming baselines successful a measurable and scalable way.

Warren and Gilmer’s Robotics Universal Remote aims to make a cosmopolitan distant for robotic operations successful austere environments to alteration faster effect times and easier usage crossed platforms.

“The extremity end is to prevention lives down scope and astatine location stations,” said Gilmer. “I’m hoping that this volition person the capableness that they request to get the occupation done safely.”

When reflecting connected their win, the squad shared however grateful they are to beryllium moving onto the adjacent signifier of the competition.

“We are precise excited to beryllium moving connected the Air Force-level Spark Tank competition,” said Warren. “It means a large woody to america and each the explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) warfighters retired determination that the sheet present decided that our thought was worthy of information astatine that level.”

Spark Tank brings distant the precocious cognition of Airmen and Guardians successful the signifier of a grass-roots campaign. It reflects leadership’s continued efforts to empower and supply them with a level to transportation innovative solutions to operational problems.

The AFMC Commanders Accelerated Initiatives Team (CDX), which manages the AFMC information of the competition, is the cardinal enactment for these innovative Airmen who are revolutionizing processes, strengthening AFMC teams, delivering integrated capabilities and amplifying warfighting culture.

“I privation to convey each of the amazing, innovative Airmen crossed the bid who took the clip to taxable ideas,” said AFMC CDX Chief, Kimberly Norman. “Please proceed to nonstop america those ideas, we emotion to perceive astir your innovative solutions.”

The 5 AFMC semi-finalists who presented during the lawsuit were:

* Master Sgt. Jeremy Neilson, Air Force Test Center: AFMC Test Aircraft Problem Virtual Reality “Just successful Time” Solution

* Russell Roberds, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center: Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Index Tool (FiT)

* Brian Warren and Tech Sgt. Geoffrey Gilmer, Air Force Test Center: Robotics Universal Remote

* Dan Sandrowicz, 88th Air Base Wing: GeoBase Mobile Editing

* 96th Logistics Readiness Squadron, Air Force Test Center: Warehouse of the Future

Schaefer highlighted that each 5 semi-finalists are winners and that immoderate of these large ideas are “Just Do Its” that AFMC tin enactment without elevating them to the Air Force-level.

“We are the instauration of deterrence for our country, some connected the atomic broadside and the accepted side. We instrumentality of each Airmen,” said Schaefer. “So that is wherefore what we are doing contiguous is truthful important.”