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My name is Chief Master Sergeant Powell

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Crider . I'm with the 1 64th airlift

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wing Tennessee National Guard and I'm

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currently on assignment working for the

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rapid sustainment office on the agile

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Combat Technologies Team , rapid

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sustainment office was stood up to

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bring innovations into the sustainment

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enterprise . So to take things from

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ideas to deployed capabilities out in

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field , there's about 15 projects in

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the agile combat technologies portfolio .

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But one of the projects and what we're

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working on today is called Mars , which

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is the maintenance augmented reality

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system that is a system that's designed

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to take our old standard tech data and

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augment that tech data so that you can

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add instruction over that can be put in

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an augmented reality . So in other

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words , laid over your vision or you

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can add video , you can add other types

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of descriptions , we call it augmenting

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capability . When the air force went to

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digital tech orders , all we did was go

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from a paper paradigm where it was

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actually made out of paper . And then

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we made PDF S which are paper and then

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we made the IED , which is the

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interactive electronic tech manual that

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we use on this aircraft . But it's

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still basically a paper paradigm though .

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It's paper with really good bookmarks .

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So what we're doing is we're taking all

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of that and we're adding enhanced

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capability to it . That's going to

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bring tech data actually into the 21st .

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Right now , we're undergoing a shift in

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the force . We're getting a lot of new

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people and we're having to train them

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and we're having to train a new

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generation of airmen . These kids grew

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up in a digital age . They were using

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ipads when they were babies . When they

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joined the Air Force . They expect

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something more than what we've been

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giving them . A lot of older people

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will say . Well , it was good enough

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for me . Well , yeah , sure . It was

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good enough for us . But there were

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many times , I'm sure you wished it was

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better . We're trying to get there now

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and now that we can put full motion

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color video into a technical order ,

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why do we still have to resort to a

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line drawing ?