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Four efforts, one habit: find the real problem, build something cheap that answers it, and put it in front of the people who will use it.
Current roleDrones, ground robots and the systems that defeat them, across the Washington Army and Air National Guard. The work is fielding, training and policy, and making sure what units learn about unmanned systems gets shared instead of relearned.
Open for projectsThe MAL is the innovation lab at the Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center. It turns a problem into a tool or a better way to train, and gets it into a course faster. It also helps law enforcement partners with problems that have a counternarcotics nexus.
In buildThe software that runs the MAL, written so any innovation lab can run it. Every job leaves a record, failed ones included, so what one lab learns is still there for the next person.
Mission Advancement LabWRCTC · operating modelSWIFT is an adaptation cycle: how the Mission Advancement Lab turns a problem into a tool or a better way to train, and gets it into a course faster. Each phase answers one question and leaves one record, so what the lab learns is in a form the next course or unit can use.
TRL is the Department of Defense's nine-level Technology Readiness Level scale. SWIFT adds an informal TRL 0 for a well-defined problem with no solution yet, and stops at TRL 6. TRL 7–9 belongs to a program of record.
Challenge coins, tokens, challenge cards, plaques, awards and signs too big for one sheet of plywood. Multicolor 3D printing for relief, lasers for engraving and cutting, UV printing for full color.
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The card you're holdingPrinted in place, so the slider is captive in its track with no assembly. The front is the counter-UAS problem: sensor, effector, threat. The back is the same track carrying the missing piece from an idea to a solved puzzle, under the five SWIFT phases. Twenty revisions to get the fit, the click detents and the engraving right.