The Air Force Science & Technology 2030 strategy is creating new opportunities for academia, large and small businesses, and other laboratories to turn their ideas into game-changing capabilities.

The Air Force will restructure its science and technology portfolio and management processes to enhance and expand competition for ideas and sustain an enabling and enduring scientific and technical base.

Five strategic capabilities directly support the vision to dominate time, space, and complexity across all operating domains. They are:

Global Persistent Awareness
Resilient Information Sharing
Rapid, Effective Decision-Making
Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass
Speed and Reach of Disruption and Lethality

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will issue periodic “open calls” for white papers detailing ideas for new or expanded strategic capabilities. The laboratory will provide funding to develop selected ideas.