ARMY AL&T April–June 2011 Cover Story PB 70-11-02


DR. MALCOLM ROSS O’NEILL Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASAALT)/Army Acquisition Executive


EDITORIAL BOARD


LTG JACK C. STULTZ Chief, U.S. Army Reserve/Commanding General (CG), U.S. Army Reserve Command


LTG JAMES H. PILLSBURY Deputy CG/Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Materiel Command


LTG ROBERT P. LENNOX U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-8


LTG WILLIAM N. PHILLIPS Director, Army Acquisition Corps and Director, Acquisition Career Management


LTG SUSAN S. LAWRENCE U.S. Army Chief Information Officer, G-6


MG JAMES K. GILMAN CG, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command


MG R. MARK BROWN Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Manage- ment, Office of the ASAALT (OASAALT)


WIMPY PYBUS Deputy ASA (DASA) for Acquisition Policy and Logistics, OASAALT


DR. JEFFERY P. HOLLAND Director of Research and Development, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers


JOSEPH M. MCDADE Assistant DCS, G-1


THOMAS E. MULLINS DASA for Plans, Programs, and Resources, OASAALT


JAMES C. SUTTON DASA for Services, OASAALT


KEITH B. WEBSTER DASA for Defense Exports and Cooperation, OASAALT


LEE THOMPSON DASA for Strategic Communications and Business Transformation/Acting DASA for Procurement, OASAALT


DR. MARILYN MILLER FREEMAN DASA for Research and Technology, OASAALT


CARMEN J. SPENCER DASA for Elimination of Chemical Weapons, OASAALT


CRAIG A. SPISAK Director, U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC)


NELSON MCCOUCH III Executive Secretary, Editorial Board, USAASC


Features


Interview with Dr. Marilyn Miller Freeman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology Page 7


Army Outlines Network Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Kris Osborn, Patricia Rice, and Margaret C. Roth


Army Plans Combined Limited User Tests for Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Kris Osborn


Head Protection: While Equipment Advances, Questions Remain . . . . . . . . . . 28 Margaret C. Roth and Robert E. Coultas


Extremity Injury Research Targets Quality of Life, Return to Function


for Wounded Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Jack Meikrantz


A Microclimate Cooling Technology for Dismounted Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dr. Samuel N. Cheuvront and Dr. Scott J. Montain


Bigger Not Always Better: The Power of Small Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Jaclyn Pitts


When One Software Language Doesn’t Fit All, Translator Technology Provides a Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Claire Heininger


C O N F E R E N C E C A L L


Key Leaders Outline Priorities for Army in Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Margaret C. Roth


Army Acquisition Evolves During Overseas Contingency Operations . . . . . . . 52 Kris Osborn


Army, Industry Seek Common Ground on Efficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Kris Osborn


Looking to the Future in Army Aviation Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . 57 Robert E. Coultas and Kellyn D. Ritter


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Science and Technology: The Key to the Future Army Jaclyn Pitts and Kellyn D. Ritter


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