AFCENT Hosts Innovation Summit
Doug Rider, a senior systems engineer contractor, shows U.S. Air Force Capt. Claire Hoover, an air battle manager assigned to the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, deployed to Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, a 3D printed game piece during the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Innovation Summit in the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing’s Desert Spark Lab at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, March 3, 2020. The AFCENT innovation summit brought together military and academic minds to discuss ways of increasing effectiveness and lethality via timeliness and data-driven decision making. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Hope Geiger)