The Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation (BESPIN) team was founded in 2019 with an original budget of $21M in seed funding. It was the third software factory created by the Air Force. Bespin specializes in mobile application development.
Bespin has a Continuous Authority to Operate (cATO) and offers other services such as a design studio, user experience monitoring, and cloud operations support.
BESPIN was not created to support specific DoD programs, and functions more reactively to support warfighters as needed. BESPIN also manages the Air Force Mobile Center of Excellence.
A 2022 RAND report claims Bespin had about 346 personnel at the time. There were 16 officers, 56 enlisted, 23 civilians, and 251 contractors.
Product
Description
DIGITAL UNIVERSITY
Digital University (DU) is a digital education platform that is transforming the way
the DoD trains, assesses, and certifies skill sets.
AF GEARFIT
Gearfit is a website that allows Air Force aircrew to submit direct feedback about
their gear, better informing decisions about critical flight equipment.
KINDERSPOT
Kinderspot is an Airbnb-style application for Child Development Centers (CDC)
that allows families to offer and obtain unused CDC spots.
LOWDOWN
Lowdown is an innovative solution to the legacy PEX system for mission data and
scheduling. The application provides mobile access to flight mission data and
scheduling accessible from EFBs.
BIZINT
Business Intelligence (BIZINT) is a mobile and web application envisioned by
the AF Center for Strategy and Technology (“Blue Horizons”) that identifies
vendors that provide commodities and services in the commercial marketplace in
countries and regions where we operate and where we may operate in the future.
EFB
EFB is an organic BESPIN project developed to avoid using unsecure 3rd party
calculators on Electronic Flight Bags, and supports ACC, AETC, and AMC.
ETIMS
The Enhanced Technical Information Management System (ETIMS) is the
Air Force system for managing Technical Order (TO) libraries, managing the
distribution and printing of paper TOs, and managing, storing and distributing
electronic TOs (eTO).
GUARDIAN ONE
Guardian One is a one-stop mobile app for information relevant to USSF
Guardians mission and duties.
BEAM
Business Enterprise Application Monitoring (BEAM) provides senior leadership
with improved situational awareness over the health of the BES application
ecosystem by providing insight into the interconnectedness of its constituent
parts. It will collect outage data both manually and via API from third party
monitoring tools and provide deeper analysis of the collected outage data.
AFCEDS
Air Force Center for Electronic Distribution of Software (AFCEDS) is a centralized
tool for users to download commercial software products, and organically
developed solutions.
