Data-Enabled Approaches for Enhancing the Air Force Transformational Capability Pipeline in Bloomington, MN

The Air Force Transformational Capabilities Office aims to foster capabilities across initiatives. To show how human-centered, data-enhanced decision processes can be used to determine which concepts to advance into the capability pipeline, the authors used a multimethod qualitative approach and developed a data science tool to extract information from free-text descriptions. They demonstrate the tool and foresight methods in three case studies.