What are Blue Sky Workshops?

Blue Sky workshops are used to ideate or identify new conceptual solutions to customer challenges. New conceptual solutions are generated to deliver novel options for short term objectives (discovery) and long-range strategic planning to define gaps in knowledge and investment. The identified gaps can then become new projects/programs, challenge problems, Vanguards, U.S. Air Force Explore topics, WARTECH projects and/or U.S. Air Force SBIR / STTR topics or prototypes demonstrations. Blue Sky workshops can also focus on a specific technology area, brainstorm new technology areas and/or raise the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of a strategically significant component of new or existing technologies.