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Community Discussions

2nd Wednesday of the month 2 p.m. EST / 11 a.m. PST

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March 12, 2025 @ 2 pm ET / 11 am PT

Flipping the Script on CMMC with AFRL Digital Research Ecosystem | Training

Presented By: Dan Berrigan, Lead, AFRL Worldwide Research Collaboration | Digital Capabilities Directorate | Air Force Research Laboratory

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) consistently struggles with collaborating in an increasingly diverse scientific landscape. Security and compliance drive restrictions that result in us mailing hard drives of data across the world. In response, AFRL has developed a digital ecosystem built to foster collaboration, innovation, and research amongst its government, academic, and industry partners. This presentation will provide an overview of AFRL’s digital ecosystem, which includes Google Workspace for productivity tools, the AFRL Digital Laboratory Environment for commercial engineering tools, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as a research and development cloud. This talk will also discuss how AFRL’s digital ecosystem helps its collaborators meet compliance requirements while providing access to the latest commercial cloud technologies and services.

Past Presentations

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Institutional Showcase | Community relationships and collaboration opportunities; Establish Community Inventory; Surface Community Needs; Help emerging centers through CoP and discover mentoring opportunities 

Researcher Focused Session | Strengthen relationships with impacted domain researcher; Gather feedback on their interests from the community; Develop collaboration opportunities

Training Topic | Establishing Community Inventory; Develop Community Skills; Address gaps missing at the institutional level

Strategic Partnership | Dedicated time to the partners to hear from the community

All Hands Meeting | Addressing updates from Academic and Industry

Assessment | Confirming that RRCoP provides value; Planning for future needs


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2025 

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) consistently struggles with collaborating in an increasingly diverse scientific landscape. Security and compliance drive restrictions that result in us mailing hard drives of data across the world. In response, AFRL has developed a digital ecosystem built to foster collaboration, innovation, and research amongst its government, academic, and industry partners. This presentation will provide an overview of AFRL’s digital ecosystem, which includes Google Workspace for productivity tools, the AFRL Digital Laboratory Environment for commercial engineering tools, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as a research and development cloud. This talk will also discuss how AFRL’s digital ecosystem helps its collaborators meet compliance requirements while providing access to the latest commercial cloud technologies and services.

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Categories of Community Discussion

Over the period between 2022–2024, RRCoP is committed to delivering sessions with different areas of focus. Below is the categories, total number of sessions, and a brief description of the content delivered at these meetings.