1 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:06,100 On October 2018, Hurricane Michael 2 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,400 came through the panhandle of 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,800 Florida and Tyndall Air Force Base suffered a direct 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:12,100 hit. 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:14,300 We had to figure out 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,200 how to rebuild an installation from the ground 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,500 up. We had to calculate it both ways. We had to 8 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:23,400 calculate it to 9 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:28,100 rebuild it and then another team at the time calculated a 10 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:28,900 cost to close it. 11 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:32,100 And believe it or not, the two were almost the same. 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,700 Tyndall Air Force Base had vital missions related, 13 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:40,900 tied to the National defense strategy before Hurricane 14 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:41,200 Michael 15 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:46,100 Those missions will continue to function throughout the rebuild and 16 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:48,900 the rebuild itself is intended to 17 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:51,000 rebuild Tyndall Air Force Base back to 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,400 being able to fully accomplish those missions in state 19 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,700 of the art facilities. Tyndall Air Force Base has the mandate that 20 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:00,800 we're going to rebuild it as the base of the future. It has 21 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,600 amazing technologies in this rebuild, an 22 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,100 Installation Resilience Operations Center where in 23 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:09,500 one building a commander can 24 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,500 walk in and understand not only the health 25 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,000 of an airfield, but also the health of the installation's critical 26 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,900 infrastructure. We've established the DOD's 27 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:21,200 first active shooter program and I think it's an opportunity for 28 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,300 us to really test this system; understand how it 29 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:28,000 works. We're developing one of the first facility predictive 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,000 maintenance capabilities within 31 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:33,200 the Air Force. We've developed the first 32 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,700 Digital Twin of the campus. The Digital Twin 33 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:37,300 is 34 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:41,800 new Tyndall built electronically. 35 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,700 So it's a complete electronic copy of 36 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:48,300 the physical infrastructure that 37 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:49,600 you're seeing being built now. 38 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:54,200 So let's say this Tyndall 39 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,100 Digital Twin 40 00:01:55,900 --> 00:01:58,600 does everything we need it to do, we can 41 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,000 run a hurricane through it, our 42 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:04,400 Defenders can use it for active shooter 43 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,800 response planning, the OTA allows you 44 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,600 then to award a subsequent 45 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,400 contract for what's called production so we 46 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,900 could go and create digital twins across the 47 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:19,100 entire Air Force with it. So I think 48 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:22,500 that's a great example of how we can propagate the 49 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:25,400 innovations here in this rebuild across all our 50 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:25,900 Air Bases. 51 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,700 We have joint bases. We have Air Force and Army or Air 52 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:32,600 Force and Navy side by side, so very common 53 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,400 sets of needs. And so, you know looking at 54 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,600 how that information not only supports the local level, 55 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,200 but we also were looking at that bigger picture to be able to say 56 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,600 "Hey, how does senior leadership need to know what the status of 57 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,400 an individual installation is." These ideas 58 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,600 are certainly compelling and useful to the other services as 59 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:50,700 well. 60 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:54,600 The other part of the 'Base of the Future' which is to ensure the 61 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,500 base is resilient to that next cat five hurricane, or 62 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:00,200 to that next, that threat whatever it may be. All of 63 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,400 the buildings, all of the new buildings will be built to at least 64 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,200 165 mile an hour wind load. Some of them are being built 65 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,100 to 170 miles an hour. The next time a 162 mile 66 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:12,600 an hour hurricane comes through, 67 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,200 the intention is for all those buildings to 68 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,500 be just fine and us to, the next 69 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:21,300 day, sweep up the dirt and go along. 70 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:25,400 The technology that we're working with here, that we're exploring with the Tyndall 71 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,400 rebuild, there are potential applications across 72 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,400 the Air Force for some of it. We're a proving ground for 73 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,400 a lot of the things that that we're working on here. In addition, 74 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,500 there was a presidential decision made 75 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:40,600 to bed down F-35 squadrons here, 76 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,900 the new 5th gen aircraft for the Air Force. 77 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,000 One of the truly amazing things about this organization and the 78 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,200 opportunity that we have here, 79 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:53,200 is that it allowed us to solve problems 80 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,600 in a way that normally a 81 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,500 long-standing organization would be unable to do because 82 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:01,700 the processes and the way 83 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,600 that we solve these problems was really 84 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,800 up to us. And in our mind that's truly in 85 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,200 the spirit of the Chief's 'Accelerate 86 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,600 Change or Lose' and it's truly in the spirit of 87 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,600 overcoming bureaucracy because the only bureaucracy we 88 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,400 had at the time that I got here was was that 89 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:20,400 with which we created. 90 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,500 Technology is really a huge component of 91 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:28,200 the rebuild of Tyndall, and, I think 92 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,800 to me, it's the key to making this the 'Installation 93 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,300 of the Future' that we know it's going to be. 94 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:37,400 It makes me feel very optimistic that our government 95 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,400 could come together to respond to something 96 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,000 like this and have it 97 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:46,600 result in the successful outcome that I know 98 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:47,000 we're going to see.