BETTER BUYING POWER


PROCUREMENT SUCCESS The Army’s procurement contracts for the Abrams tank and the Stryker vehicle represent successes for BBP. Here, Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (2/4 ID) prepare to assault an objective in M1A2 Abrams tanks Jan. 10 dur- ing a two-week field training exercise near Fort Carson’s Camp Red Devil, CO. (U.S. Army photo by SSG Andrew Porch, 2/4 ID Public Affairs)


capabilities to future increments, such as target recognition aids.


Tis approach allows us to properly emphasize technical maturity within our components and subsystems by giving certain technologies the needed time to mature before we integrate them. It also saves money!


STREAMLINING TESTING Alongside requirements trade-off actions, we are also applying BBP as we strive to improve test efficiency. In particular, we are looking closely at costs and striv- ing to leverage developmental testing to reduce the degree of operational testing. For example, during numerous Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) program reviews, we identified ways to streamline tests and refine test requirements that eliminated redundancy and combined various test efforts. Te program saved a total of $15.7 million and approximately


12 months of test range time. Tis drove efficiency and kept the program on track for a June 2013 Milestone C Defense Acquisition Board.


Te U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation, Army Staff and U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command were key teammates in the PIM test efficiency


THESE


effort. Collectively we established a working group that analyzed each proposal in terms of feasibility, suitability, acceptability, safety, risk, and approximate cost and schedule savings. In total, we implemented 27 different test efficiencies.


PIM is not the only area where we are taking a conscientious approach to test- ing. We have realized efficiencies across


ACHIEVEMENTS ARE A CREDIT


TO THE WORKFORCE SUPPORTING EACH INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM, AS WELL AS


EVIDENCE


CULTURE THE


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WITHIN CORPS.


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