“Spark Tank is the Department’s take on the television show Shark Tank and is designed to recognize the great work our Airmen and Guardians put into overcoming performance obstacles and making our services more capable,” said William ‘Brou’ Gautier, Spark Tank Director. 16, 2021, at the Basic Research Innovation and Collaboration Center in Arlington, Va., and via a virtual teleconferencing platform to conduct the Spark Tank 2022 (ST22) Quarter Finals. I want to move this knob from over here to over there, and that button is in a really inconvenient spot,’” he said.A panel of nearly 30 subject matter experts from across the Department of the Air Force met on Nov. “We can put wear and tear on it, and then we have the opportunity to go back to the company and say, ‘Hey, I don’t like this. He plans to take Arcwater to three field exercises in the next few months to see how it performs in the real world. The finished product with any needed changes should be available in the fall. Kenney said he expected to have a prototype by mid-May that pairs together the photovoltaic fabric and the water harvester. And though it’s unclear what the military currently spends on sending water to the field, the Pentagon said in 2003 it cost $4.69 per gallon to deliver bottled water to troops in Afghanistan - or about $750,000 to hydrate 1,000 people for a month. In contrast, the Air Force said in 2019 it spends about $1.1 billion annually to power facilities and vehicles (plus about $7 billion a year in aviation fuel). The water system costs $87,000 per unit, while the solar setup runs about $232,000. Officials in the 52nd Fighter Wing approved of the idea and offered their discretionary funds to move it forward. RELATED Opinion: Air bases are at risk without the agile combat employment approach
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