Integrated Primary Prevention

Mission — Sexual Assault Prvntion Study source

This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY2024 $0 was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY2025 $0 is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. ORION funds moved from this PE (808737F) to PE 808736F beginning in FY25. Following completion of a Presidentially-directed Independent Review Committee (IRC) on Sexual Assaults for the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) directed the implementation of multiple IRC recommendations. The Integrated Prevention PE contains two programs in support of those recommendations: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Records, Investigations and Operations Network (ORION) program and the Interpersonal Self-Directed Violence (ISDV) Prevention program. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Records, Investigations and Operations Network (ORION): The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is DAF's sole felony-level criminal investigative agency mandated to investigate criminal offenses, to include sexual offenses and interpersonal violence. IRC recommendations C2, C3, C4, 1.8, 2.6a, 3.1, and 3.3a, directed the DAF to increase its ability to collect, analyze, and integrate data related to sexual offenses and interpersonal violence to inform and guide prevention and response. The DAF will develop and deploy the OSI Investigations, Operations, and Records Network (ORION) information system as to satisfy SECDEF requirements. In tandem with the context above, another key driver for development of ORION is the DAF's requirement to identify a central case management system solution to allow for more effective oversight of and more efficient execution of the DAF's criminal indexing process. ORION will be a cloud-based, next-generation case management system used to document, manage, store, and report criminal investigative and counterintelligence information involving violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the United States Code. ORION will serve as OSI's central mission application capable of ensuring sexual assaults, intimate partner violence, violent extremism, service-member deaths, and dozens of other crimes are properly investigated and recorded. ORION will be used by over 3,000 OSI personnel including nearly 2,000 federally-credentialed Special Agents at OSI's 300+ global operating locations. ORION will enable the DAF to modernize criminal indexing processes both operationally and technologically. Operationally, ORION will reduce redundancy, streamline processes, encourage standardization, and decrease administrative burden. The DAF is exploring options to use ORION to replace other systems and enable data transfer to other stakeholders with the goal to increase integration and productivity and avoid duplicative data entry. ORION could also be leveraged to be placed on one or more Special Access Programs (SAP) networks to become a system of record for OSI investigative and security support to DAF SAP programs. Technologically, ORION leverages the affordability, scalability, security, and services provided by cloud computing. Additionally, ORION will be mobile-ready, enabling agents to securely access and document investigative data from mobile devices whenever and wherever needed, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing delays. Lastly, ORION will be built on a low-code/no-code enterprise platform which enables the rapid development, deployment, and sustainment of capability. The DAF is considering options to leverage ORION and its enterprise low-code/no-code platform for other DAF case management and/or business process management requirements. Such a platform, operated and sustained at the enterprise level, has potential to yield cost savings, operational enhancements, and technical efficiencies as well as reduce DAF overheard. With ORION serving as the initial application, the case management platform could promote the expedited development, deployment, and sustainment of future case management systems at economies of scale. Air Force Integrated Resilience Office (A1Z), Interpersonal Self-Directed Violence Prevention: The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Integrated Resilience Directorate (A1Z) is the Air Force's lead agency for the research, development, and analysis of ISDV prevention and resilience programming across The Force. The IRC recommended multiple initiatives to help the Services research, develop, and assess interpersonal and self-directed violence (ISDV) prevention strategies. ISDV encompasses sexual assault, domestic violence, suicide, and resilience. IRC recommendations 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, and 3.5 directed the DAF to implement prevention strategies at organizational and community levels through the modernization of prevention education, training, program evaluation, and improved processes for data collection and analysis. The DAF will execute the IRC's recommendations in support of initiatives to include, but not limited to: - The Tech-based Machine Learning Initiative - A state-of-the-art DoD prevention research capability that utilizes machine learning algorithms to analyze qualitative data to identify trends that lead to ISDV. - The Community Prevention Platform [CPP] - A web-based software system that will maintain Installation and Major Command community action plans and facilitate DAF Headquarters ability to track and assess plans. - The Peer-Network Resilience Training Program (PRTP) - An initiative to analyze and modernize current resilience training processes to more effectively reflect today's generation of Service members. - The Project Proficiency-based Sexual Assault Training (PSAT) - This initiative will similarly update and expand the current Air Force sexual assault training by implementing tailored-training based on subject knowledge as well as long-term training-competency tracking for Airmen/Guardians over their career cycle. - The Sexual Assault Prevention Response Virtual Reality (SAPR V) - This initiative will further enhance training initiatives by implementing cutting-edge Virtual Reality capability to more effectively enable Airmen and Guardians to recognize and prevent sexual assault. The DAF is committed to implementing the Commission's recommendations to more effectively identify behavioral and cultural contributors to ISDV, educate/train Airmen and Guardians to facilitate ISDV prevention, and transparently document and track Installation-level strategies to facilitate evaluation. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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