ARMY AL&T
Guiding Principles Affordability, interoperability, and com- mon operating picture are not just buzz words, but guiding principles to maxi- mize resources and provide the Nation’s warfi ghters with the best capabilities possible. These principles also follow the guidance of the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review, which emphasizes joint logistics and calls for shifting the focus from service-specifi c programs to joint capabilities. This approach is a necessity, as well as good business sense, and is at the center of the JPEO-CBD’s life-cycle management philosophy.
Joint Project Managers (JPMs)
JPMs develop, fi eld, and support the sustainment process of the equipment provided to warfi ghters. From the early stages of the acquisition process, JPMs coordinate and formulate joint sustainment support strategies. This enterprisewide involvement in the process leads to buy-in, as well as integration of valuable emerging and proven support concepts, successfully employed across the joint services.
As the materiel developer for the CBDP, the JPEO-CBD’s approach to total life-cycle systems management implements multipurpose strategies to support warfi ghters with the most combat-effective capabilities within the most effi cient business processes. These strategies are intended to modernize the portfolio, maintain the technological edge, and reduce the O&S costs to the services. Within this construct, trade space exists where considering alterna- tive business processes or realigning priorities yield high return on invest- ment (ROI) within the CBDP. One such approach aims at modernizing the force in areas where high ROI signifi - cantly increases readiness and decreases O&S costs to the services.
Joint weapon systems sustainment is complex, must address all the indi- vidual services’ unique operational
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As the materiel developer for the CBDP,
the JPEO-CBD’s approach to total life-cycle systems management implements multipurpose strategies to support warfi ghters with the most combat-effective capabilities within the most effi cient business processes.
requirements, and must be “born joint” from the beginning of the acquisition process. The fastest way to achieve this goal is to accelerate the modernization pace by introducing a joint-born system with joint sustainment strategies.
Accelerating Fielding of Current Systems
Approximately 50 percent of the CBDP systems in the fi eld today are more than 20 years old and require signifi cant time, effort, and resources to keep them oper- ational. The O&S costs required to maintain these systems are a tremendous burden to the services and grow every year. Compounding the problem is the impact of several “service-unique” systems that remain in the inventory. Many of these systems are low-density items and, in some cases, experience diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages that increase the services’ costs to sustain. Accelerating the fi elding of newer systems increases readiness and reduces O&S costs, logis- tics footprint, and training requirements.
The Joint Chemical Agent Alarm (JCAD) illustrates this concept well. This sys- tem replaces up to three legacy systems in the fi eld today: M8A1 Chemical Agent Alarm (20-plus years old), Automatic Chemical
Agent Detector and Alarm (15 years old), and Improved Chemical Agent Monitor (15 years old). The O&S cost for a JCAD is approximately $457 per year. Conversely, the combined annual O&S cost for the aforementioned three legacy systems is approximately $6,700 per year. Thus, for every JCAD fi elded, the services’ O&S bill drops approxi- mately $6,200 dollars per year.
Another such instance is the Joint Service General Purpose Mask (JSGPM), a lightweight, nuclear-, biological-, and
The JCAD is capable of detecting blood agents and toxic industrial chemicals, capabilities not seen in currently fi elded hand-held detectors. Here, a Soldier dressed in Mission-Oriented Protection Posture gear surveys the surface of a vehicle with a JCAD. (U.S. Army photo.)
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