Eglin's warehouse of future an AFMC Spark Tank finalist - Eglin Air Force Base

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - With beardown contention from implicit 20 innovative Airmen submissions turned to 5 semi-finalists, the Air Force Materiel Command named its 2023 Spark Tank finalists, Oct. 6.

The Test Aircraft Virtual Reality “Just successful Time” Solution, an thought for the Robotics Universal Remote and Eglin Air Force Base's Warehouse of the Future 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 Deputy 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.

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, 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 attraction of each Airmen,” said Schaefer. “So that is wherefore what we are doing contiguous is truthful important.”