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SECAF unveils new ‘eSeries’ classification

Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett told Air Force As-
sociation conference attendees that the future of air and space
technology will include aircraft, weapons and satellites which
will be digitally engineered and virtually tested before ever tak-
ing physical form.
A true paradigm shift, systems being considered for acquisition
will be designed, developed and manufactured on a digital foun-
dation, just like the Boeing eT-7A Red Hawk advanced trainer.
The new process is part of the Department’s digital eSeries ap-
proach.
The secretary made her remarks during the keynote speech at
this year’s Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Confer-
ence, which was held virtually due to the global pandemic.
“To inspire companies to embrace the possibilities presented
by digital engineering, today the Department of the Air Force is
announcing a new weapons system designator — the ‘e’ series,”
Barrett said. “Aircraft, satellites, weapon systems and more that
are digitally engineered will receive an ‘e’ prefix.”
The first U.S. Air Force aircraft designed using the digital ap-
proach, the eT-7A Red Hawk, embraced model-based engineer-
ing and 3D design tools which reduced assembly hours by 80
percent and cut software development time in half. The aircraft
moved from computer screen to first flight in just 36 months.
Other Air and Space Force programs have leveraged the power
of digital engineering to reduce design and testing time. In the
future, more Air and Space Force acquisition programs will be
using digital engineering principles to design, code and build
systems.
According to Air Force officials, an eSeries digital acquisi-
tion program will be a fully-connected, end-to-end virtual en-
vironment that will produce an almost perfect replica of what
the physical weapon system will be. It will bring unprecedented
speed and agility to help compete in the technology battlespace
by enabling thousands, even millions, of virtual iterations at ma- Air Force photograph by Wayne Clark
chine speeds to design the best possible system — but only build Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett delivers a pre-recorded message for the Air Force Association Virtual Air, Space & Cyber
Conference 2020 at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., Sept. 10, 2020. Due to COVID-19, this year’s AFA conference was held online.
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