Acquisition management policy division, office of the secretary of the Air Force (acquisition): Corporate Innovators for 2004.The Product Development & Management Association (PDMA PDMA Product Development & Management Association PDMA Prescription Drug Marketing Act PDMA Philadelphia Direct Marketing Association PDMA Plastic Deformation Magnetic Assembly PDMA Polarisation Division Multiple Access ) named the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL Noun 1. AFRL - a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces Air Force Research Laboratory U. S. ), Wright-Patterson AFB AFB abbr. acid-fast bacillus AFB Acid-fast bacillus, also 1. Aflatoxin B 2. Aorto-femoral bypass , Ohio, as one of two Outstanding Corporate Innovators for 2004 during PDMA's 28th Annual International Conference. This year's conference was held in Chicago on Oct. 26, 2004. The AFRL was selected from a field of over 20 global candidates nominated by PDMA members. The award is meant to recognize and showcase organizations that have demonstrated an enterprise-wide commitment to innovation and have proved themselves to be highly successful in the continuous development of profitable new products. It also provides a significant learning vehicle for the new product development community by having the recipients share their award-winning practices. This award once again highlights AFRL's commitment to providing technology solutions to the Air Force's air, space, weapons, information, and maintenance systems. Their work has a long history of advances that have both military and commercial applications. Not content to rest on its record of past successes, and in response to Air Force goals to field technology faster and more affordably, AFRL undertook a remarkable transformation of their new product development efforts. They radically re-engineered their development process from a focus on advancing individual technology disciplines, to one focused on meeting today's customer needs, as well as anticipating latent needs 10 to 20 years in the future. The current process actively involves customers in the planning, production, and deployment of products. Total end-use requirements, such as serviceability (system) serviceability - The ease with which corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance can be performed on a system (e.g. by a hardware service technician). Higher serviceability improves availability and reduces service cost. Serviceability is one component of RAS. , receive much more attention as a result of the transformation. "Technology Roadmaps" and "Capability Planning" sub-processes are used to fuel innovation, capture needs, and synchronize See synchronization. developments/deployment schedules. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Thirty-one firms have been recognized as Outstanding Corporate Innovators since the inception of the award. Past recipients have included Apple. BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. . Eastman Kodak, Harley-Davidson. Hewlett-Packard, Nabisco, and Pepsi-Cola. |
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