Lessons for the Department of Defense

<p>This paper consolidates the observations of four of the United States Air Force officers assigned to the 2010-2011 Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellowship Program (SDCFP). In lieu of a year spent attending a traditional Senior Developmental Education program they spent their academic year working with at Lockheed Martin (LM) Microsoft Pratt and Whitney (PW) and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). Each Fellow spent approximately 10 months embedded within their assigned company as if they were one of the companies' employees. The Fellows were fully integrated into the corporate structure at the senior levels and were productive members contributing and engaging as if they were full time employees. Foremost all Fellows were tasked to identify those best practices their companies' execute on a day to day basis for possible implementation within the Department of Defense.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>