Mr. Bob Lee is the current Innovation Architect for the Wright Brothers Institute. He assists AFRL in all of their innovation projects to reach nontraditional partners for enhanced research. His efforts have led directly to the establishment of three of the AF certified software factories (SpaceCamp, SkiCamp, and H18). Bob also led the effort to assist AFRL in the adoption of Google Cloud services and Google workspace that resulted in widespread adoption across AFRL (over 4000 users). Bob has a BS in Physics and Math from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Bob is a retired operations officer for the Battlespace Acoustics branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory with over 32 years’ experience in the study of acoustic generation, propagation and mitigation of the effects of acoustic energy generated from military aircraft. For over 15 years he led a team of researchers that tackled all aspects of military noise for the US Air Force. His efforts led to a comprehensive approach to determining the effects of noise on people, animals and structures. He served as the AF technical representative for national and international noise and sonic boom issue. Bob was also instrumental in his office accepting the Secretary of the Air Forces challenge to the AFRL research community to improve the effectiveness of AF Combat Controllers in their Close Air Support (CAS) role. The challenge to the lab was to reduce their equipment loadout, to increase their lethality, and reduce the errors that have led to fratricide. Bob’s team led the portion of this multiyear cross directorate effort that was the lynchpin that tied all of the efforts into a single human work centered solution for the field operators. The team demonstrated a new transparent hearing protection system that will prevent temporary hearing loss in combat and allow clear communication in high noise environments. This Battlefield Airman program demonstrated a new Machine to Machine (M2M) capability that significantly reduces the time to call bombs on target while reducing the probability of fratricide. These efforts are being lauded as significant improvements by the Air Force Special Operations Command and were transitioned for field use. This effort reduced the equipment loadout, increased lethality, and virtually eliminated the errors that have led to fratricide. This multiyear cross directorate effort tied all of the efforts into a single human work centered solution for the field operators that reduced targeting time by over 500%. Bob was also instrumental in alerting the SECAF for the need for a new Battlefield Airman SPO, that was established that month, to maintain and improve on this basic capability for long term sustainment.