ARMY AL&T
The job of the S&T community is to maintain our S&T engineering and mathematics skills, knowledge, experience, and expertise and to use these to give our warfighters the most reliable, effective equipment and tools for conducting their diverse missions to make them the decisive edge.
— Dr. Marilyn Miller Freeman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology
This was the overarching message from Army leaders at the 27th Army Science Conference in November 2010.
“Our Soldiers must have a wide range of advanced and new capabilities,” said Dr. Marilyn Miller Freeman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology (See Q&A, Page 7). “These capabilities grow out of a broad spectrum of technologies for near-, mid-, and far-term applications. The job of the S&T community is to maintain our S&T engineering and mathematics skills, knowledge, experi- ence, and expertise and to use these to give our warfighters the most reliable, effective equipment and tools for con- ducting their diverse missions to make them the decisive edge.”
The acquisition community must pro- vide capabilities on time and within budget, according to Dr. Malcolm Ross O’Neill, Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. “Our environment has to be open, transparent, and supportive, and we must support the Soldier as our most important customer,” he said. “Soldiers are our most precious asset.
“We have got to have something that our potential adversaries don’t have,” O’Neill said. “It is up to us to provide materiel that has an inherent advantage.”
A Changing Environment Freeman explained that the environ- ment she entered as a young scientist 30 years ago differed greatly from what she sees today. “When I entered, I was told that I didn’t need to be so aggres- sive, that I didn’t need to be in such a hurry to develop anything in my lab because it would be 20 or 30 years before anything I did in S&T would ever touch the hands of Soldiers,” she said. “Not so today. I never accepted that premise, and I still don’t, and you shouldn’t either. Scientists and engi- neers today don’t sit at their computers all the time. They go into the field, and they interact with warfighters in theater
to share our solutions that provide the advantage we promise. Like our Soldiers, Army S&T must adapt.”
Included in that adaptation is what Freeman calls “reinventing Army S&T.” “We need to step back and take a look at ourselves in this environment, and figure out what we should keep, how we should do business better, what we should throw out, and what in particular is the most important aspect of our job,” she said.
“We need to get more knowledge earlier in the [acquisition] process,” said LTG Michael A. Vane, Deputy Commanding General, Futures, and Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). “More knowledge from across our various elements of acquisition, … from testers, PMs, engineers, and users who represent not only TRADOC but actual returning Soldiers from various activities” (See related article, Page 14).
We have got to have something that our potential adversaries don’t have. It is up to us to provide materiel that has an inherent advantage.
— Dr. Malcolm Ross O’Neill, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology 4 APRIL –JUNE 2011
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