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- [Narrator] 6th Air Mobility Command crew members

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recently visited Hanscom Air Force Base to increase

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the security and usability of the electronic flight bag

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or EFB.

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In the past, crew members carry flight bags

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with thousands of pages of reference materials

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and today iPads have reduced the load.

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^- We're here for an electronic flight bag plug test

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^where we're trying to test out new applications

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for the EFB and see if we can come up with a better design,

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^better products for crew members.

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^- So a plug test is a rapid acquisitions process

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^where we go and try to bring in non-traditional vendors

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and actually have them demonstrate their prototypes

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for our users as well as our engineers to interact with.

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- [Narrator] The plug test caught the eye of

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the Air Force Chief of Staff, General David Goldfein

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during his recent visit.

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- Right now I'm standing in front of the,

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what we like to call the cloud, so the vendors

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who are participating in our flight bag plug test

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have access to the baselines that the actual

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air crew members use while they're in flight.

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- I mean, from the moment you get out to the aircraft

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the iPad is on.

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You're using it for preflight, using it for taxi,

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using it for diagrams of the airfield, then you take off

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you're referencing applications and hubs that are on it.