FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
This issue of Army AL&T Magazine is devoted primarily to Army Science and Technology and its mission to serve the Soldier. In an exclusive interview with Army AL&T, Dr. Marilyn Miller Freeman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, provides an in-depth look at what “reinventing S&T” means: “Our new S&T vision talks about empowering, unburdening, and protecting our Soldiers. It talks about technology-enabled capabilities being the key product we deliver.”
Dr. Malcolm Ross O’Neill, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, states in the opening article of this issue, Science and Technology: The Key to the Future Army, the importance of providing our Soldiers with materiel that has an “inherent advantage” against an adaptive and inventive enemy.
In total, 11 articles in this issue examine how the Army is innovating to serve the Soldier in the current and future theaters of operation—what the objectives are and how Army leaders plan to reach them in the face of global competition for resources, talent, and technology. Individual articles look at problems solved and as yet unsolved in modernizing the network, head protection and Traumatic Brain Injury, research on extremity injuries, micro-autonomous systems, data transfer, and body-cooling systems.
It is important to note that innovation in the Army relies heavily on S&T, but doesn’t stop there by any means. Innovation takes place throughout the acquisition and fielding processes, in ways that are visible to Soldiers—such as the simultaneous development process described in the article Parallel Paths for Weapon Development and Training—and ways that take place behind the scenes to maintain a well-trained, adaptable AL&T Workforce, such as The Leaning of Lean Six Sigma described in our Lean Six Sigma/Business Transformation section and the establishment of the U.S. Army Acquisition Center of Excellence, discussed in the column From the Acquisition Support Center Director.
Innovation in acquisition processes is the subject of additional articles in this issue, on topics including use of the “Other Transaction” approach to obtain a needed and hard-to-find capability, converting time and materials contracts for better buying power, and developing a two-phase design/build selection process to accelerate contract review.
I trust these topical articles will inform and guide you as you work to fulfill your responsibilities to Army AL&T and our warfighters. If you have any comments or suggestions, e-mail me at
USAASCWEBArmyALTMagazineLettertoEditor@conus.army.mil.
Nelson McCouch III Editor-in-Chief
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