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Headquarters Air Mobility Command

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AMC EFB UpdateMajor Pete Birchenough, A3V

AMC EFB Website:https://eim.amc.af.mil/org/a3/A3V/EFB/default.aspx

May 2012

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Topics

Why this makes sense

Business Case Analysis

ePubs Distribution

EFB Rollout

Phase I / Phase II

Open Issues

Common Challenges

AMC EFB SharePoint


Paper Airplane?


Replace paper every 28 days


30 carts of trash every 56 daysTravis AFB


Consolidate 90 lbs to 1.5 lbs


AMC Business Case Analysis


AMC Business Case Analysis

BCA provided detailed costs associated with printing

and distribution along with fuel costs to carry aircraft

technical orders and flight publications

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Annual MAF-wide savings--Flight Manuals:

Annual MAF-wide savings--FLIP:

Annual MAF-wide savings--Fuel:

$1.77M

$3.28M

$772K

$5.825M

Total Annual MAF-wide Cost Avoidance:

Return On Investment (ROI) of 3.2:1


AMC ePubs Distribution

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NetworkedComputer

Stand AloneComputer

AircrewMedia


Stan/Eval

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NetworkedComputer

Stand AloneComputer

AircrewMedia


Stan/Eval

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NetworkedComputer

AircrewMedia


Stan/Eval


EFB Rollout

16,000 iPads purchased for MAF Aircrew:

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MAF: AMC, AFRC, NGB, PACAF, USAFE

Aircrew: Pilots, Navs, FE’s, LM’s, Booms, FA’s & CSO’s

All CONUS MAF units have received iPads & Cases

ADPE entering tracking info into AIMs

Operations provisioning the devices

Developing plan for AE units


Phase I

Applies to all MAF aircrew Strictly an eReader for ePubs Still required to carry paper (Sep 12)

Required 8-character passwordSigned User AgreementCannot connect to home computerCannot add personal apps

Alteration of AMC configuration resultsin decertification

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Phase II

Lead Units evaluating / developingguidance for rest of MAF:

• Travis:• Little Rock:• MacDill:• Andrews:• Scott:

KC-10, C-5, C-17C-130KC-135VIPSAMC-21

Evaluating flight apps for use below10,000 feet• Still required to carry paper

MAF-wide approval January 2013



Current Challenge:Data Classification and Mobile

Device Guidance


Para 6.2.2. Destruction.

“Tear them into three or more pieces placing them in a single bin”

AFI 61-204Dissemination of STINFO


Definition of Electronic FlightBag

AFI 11-215, USAF Flight Manuals

“Electronic Flight Bag—is an electronic informationmanagement device that helps flight crews perform flightmanagement tasks more easily and efficiently with lesspaper. It is a general purpose computing platformintended to reduce, or replace, paper-based referencematerial often found in the aircrew's carry-on Flight Bag,including the Flight Manual, AFIs, and NavigationalCharts.”

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Classified

Sensitive

Public

Unclassified Technical Data is one of eight sub-

categories of Sensitive information

FOUO and Privacy Act Information are separate

sub-categories which Aircrew Flight Manuals are

not subject to


DoD 8500.2, Info Assurance

Outlines only three levels of confidentiality:


DISA Non-Enterprise Guidance(January 12)


Regulations

DoD 5200.21, Dissemination of DoD Tech Info

DoD 5230.25, Withholding Unclassified Tech Data

DoD 5230.24, Distribution Statements on Tech Docs

DoD 8400.7-R, DoD FOIA Program

AF 61-204, Dissemination Scientific & Tech Info

DoD 8500.1, Information Assurance

DoD 8500.2, Information Assurance Implementation

AF TO 00-5-1, AF Technical Order System

AFI 11-215, USAF Flight Manuals

AF TO 00-5-3, AF Technical Order Life Cycle Mgt

1979 (33 yrs old)

1984 (28 yrs old)

1987 (25 yrs old)

1998 (14 yrs old)

2002 (10 yrs old)

2002 (10 yrs old)

2003 (9 yrs old)

2006 (6 yrs old)

2008 (4 yrs old)

2009 (3 yrs old)


DISA Non-Enterprise Guidance(January 12)


Flight Manuals Sensitive?


Are we OK putting FMs on theiPad?

Paper Flight Manuals

• No requirements for positive control

• No reporting procedures if the information is lost

Digital Flight Manuals (current)

• No password protection or encryption

• 16k aircrew x 1 flight/mo x 12 mos = 208,000 DVDs/yr

• Data viewed on personal computers for home study

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iPad as EFB: Better Security

Standardized viewable platform

• No need to migrate information to home computer

8-character passcode to unlock device

• 256-bit AES encrypted when locked

• FIPS-140-2 certification in works

Configuration controlled

90 day audit

Signed user agreement

Ability to track, lock or wipe if lost

Non-compliance results in decertification



Onus placed on DataOriginators

Information owners challenged with having to provide

classification determination

Decision often defaults to the most conservative control

out of fear of reprisal

Group consensus successful, but difficult to get anyone

to put it in writing

Taking GO-level involvement to solve


Future Challenge:Apps


Is there an app for that?

Attractiveness of iPad was the ease in which apps could

be tweaked

• Short implementation timeline

• Free updates

• Feature focused

PDF reader, weather app…there are dozens out there

Ask developer to add feature

Ask developer to provide an Enterprise-only version

Mission specific apps…internally develop


App Purchasing & Contracting

App store? App approval?

How do we buy apps using the current system?

• Current contracting process is not efficient

Man-hours/resources for RFP/Sole Source of $0.99?

Adobe Pro vs GoodReader: 16,000 copies

• Adobe Acrobat Pro at $105/ea = $1.68M

• GoodReader App at $4.99/ea = $79.8k

• App has 95-97% cost avoidance, with free updates

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AMC EFB SharePoint

iPad Setup Guides & Videos

Users Agreement

Draft CONEMP

Conference Slides

Overarching regulations, waivers & approval

documentation

Discussion Board

https://eim.amc.af.mil/org/a3/A3V/EFB/default.aspx

Must choose E-mail certificate



AMC EFB POCs

AMC EFB Program Managers:

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Maj Pete Birchenough, [email protected]

Maj Jason Brown, [email protected]

AMC A6

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Mr. Jeff Shields, [email protected]

Mr. Justin Grayson, [email protected]

EFB Technical Lead

• Lt Col Keith Whitehouse, [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]





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