Following the successful 2014 AFSB report Development Planning: A Strategic Approach to Future Air Force Capabilities, key Air Force champions identified that a major barrier to adoption of the study's recommendations stemmed from the lack of experienced acquisition professionals that had practiced development planning. As a proposed method to explore mentoring, training, and sharing of best practices within the nascent developing planning activities being prototyped within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), a roundtable focused on development planning will be convened to explore and share best practices from successful development planning activities across the Department of Defense and private sector. This roundtable will provide the foundation for a series of training and evaluation methodologies to help implement and re-institutionalize development planning across the Air Force acquisition community.
The Air Force Development Planning Roundtable will convene senior-representatives from government, industry, and academia to define and explore critical issues related to the Air Force’s acquisition enterprise surrounding the topic of development planning. This forum will be designed to facilitate candid dialogue among participants, to foster greater partnership among the acquisition community, and, where appropriate, to carry awareness of challenges and issues to the wider Department of Defense audience. All activities of the Roundtable will be conducted in accordance with institutional guidelines described in “Roundtables: Policy and Procedures.”