38th ES drives enterprise innovation during Apple event

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Preston Kemp, 38th Engineering Squadron cyber engineer, presented the results of an Air Force engineering prototype study to attendees during a Federal Aviation Working Group event, hosted by Apple, Inc., in Austin, Texas, March 13, 2019.

The event served as a technical interchange between Department of Defense service members and contractors, commercial vendors, and Apple federal team members, all focused on better equipping pilots and aircraft maintainers to perform their work using alternative computing platforms for greater functionality and capability.

Although commercial mobile technologies have been used in this area for nearly a decade, the 38th ES identified a gap in how these devices are being managed and supported. The result of months of prototyping and partnering with industry and other federal agencies is a Macintosh operating system-powered device that interfaces with the existing Air Force Network.

The effort directly supports pilots and maintainers to better enable them to innovate how they accomplish their missions every day.