Turning Data into Readiness: Modernizing Air Force Deployment Decisions with NOMAD

The Department of the Air Force has no shortage of data. Personnel records, qualifications, readiness indicators, and training histories are all readily available. Yet turning that data into timely and defensible deployment decisions remains far more difficult than it should be.

Today, Unit Deployment Managers operate across a patchwork of local tools, spreadsheets, manual trackers, and disconnected systems. Critical knowledge lives in inboxes and personal workflows and is rebuilt repeatedly as UDMs rotate every two years. The result is duplicated effort, inconsistent decisions, avoidable delays, and unnecessary risk to readiness at scale.

From Data to Decisions

NOMAD is being developed to address this gap directly. Built on Technergetics’ MOSAIC AI framework, NOMAD is designed to help UDMs move beyond data wrangling and toward decision advantage.

At its core, NOMAD enables the capture, reuse, and improvement of not just data but also deployment logic over time. Hard-earned institutional knowledge can be expressed as modular, transparent decision logic that persists across rotations, bases, and MAJCOMs, rather than walking out the door with every PCS cycle.

Why an Enterprise Approach Matters

The challenge facing the Department of the Air Force is not access to data. It is the absence of an enterprise deployment assessment capability that can aggregate, contextualize, and reason over that data consistently. Without a shared foundation, each base is left to rebuild its own solutions, often solving the same problems in isolation.

An enterprise approach informed by NOMAD and MOSAIC principles would allow the Air Force to share validated deployment logic while still preserving local commander authority and flexibility. Done right, this approach would:

• Reduce redundant tools and processes across installations

• Preserve institutional deployment knowledge across UDM rotations

• Accelerate deployer certification and sourcing timelines

• Improve consistency, transparency, and audit-ability of decisions

• Allow UDMs to focus on risk assessment rather than manual data consolidation

Most importantly, it strengthens readiness. By enabling faster and more consistent personnel sourcing, NOMAD reduces reliance on individual experience levels and gives commanders the ability to rapidly evaluate options. This ensures the right Airmen with the right skills are matched to specific Combatant Commander requirements.

Readiness at the Speed of the Mission

In an increasingly complex security environment, readiness and data are inseparable. The real question is no longer whether the Air Force should modernize deployment decision-making but how quickly it can move from fragmented local tools to a scalable and enterprise-grounded capability.

NOMAD represents a step toward that future. It is a future where data is not just stored but reasoned over, and where deployment decisions are faster, more consistent, and mission-aligned by design.