Application Endorsement

(September 2023 / Cohort 12) Project Mercury Supervisor Questions

Personal Information

First Name

Last Name

Unit

Service

Rank

Project Mercury

Why do you want to join Project Mercury?

What Relevant Experiences or skills do you bring to a team?

The theme for this Cohort is: Outpacing the pacing threat

How might we prepare and practice to conduct operations in a communications-denied environment?

How do we conduct sustainment in a contested logistics environment?

How do we design resilience into space based capabilities?

How do we protect and defend the base against conventional/unconventional attacks when the combat wing is deployed?

How do we integrate AI into command and control decision making?

How might we run more agile experiments within large exercises?

How might we rethink exercises to include robust experimentation and faster feedback loops?

How might we improve info sharing and interoperability in order to improve the impact of allied and joint partnerships?

What other topic areas should we consider in this cohort or future cohorts?

Endorsement

Your First Name

Your Last Name

Why do you think this applicant is a good match for Project Mercury?

(Please include skills, motivation, role in the unit, or uniqueness of thought, etc.)

How will this individual be leveraged in the future to help build the innovation culture, competencies, and community of your unit or the broader defense community?

How will you and your unit support this applicant’s time commitment of 7+ hours per week (including 2 hours every Tuesday afternoon) while in the program?

Does your unit agree to a unit funded TDY for this applicant to attend the in person Jumpstart in Washington DC from 6-10 May 2024?

If you are human, leave this field blank.

Thank you for your support of Project Mercury!

James D. Dryjanski, DAF
Assistant Professor, Air University
Project Mercury Director