Some of the sustainment challenges with legacy area- denial systems include system age; battery life and obsolescence; changes in ground and air prime mover platforms; the demand for and availability of repair parts; priority of sustainment funding; unit familiarity with maintaining and operating the systems; and evolving policy guidance and treaty requirements.
Policy guidance also introduces legacy system sustainment challenges. Tere are both age and treaty compliance chal- lenges inherent in most legacy FASCAM systems. U.S. landmine policy and two 2014 White House announcements on antipersonnel landmines (APL) ban the use of persistent landmines, which, if not removed or destroyed, can remain deadly indefinitely, and restrict the use of APL outside of the Korean Peninsula.
In September 2014, the White House published “Fact Sheet: Changes to U.S. Anti-Personnel Landmine Policy.” Tis document stated that the U.S. “will not use APL outside the Korean Peninsula; not assist, encourage, or induce anyone outside the Korean Peninsula to engage in activity prohibited by the Ottawa Con- vention; and undertake to destroy APL stockpiles not required for the defense of the Republic of Korea.”
Te use of persistent landmines ended in 2010. Since that time, U.S. forces had only been allowed to employ self-destructing or
self-deactivating APLs current, available FASCAM systems lack
“human-in-the-loop” control capability and scalable lethal and nonlethal effects. Additionally, current U.S. FASCAM sys- tems are approaching or are beyond their original design life.
CONCLUSION To address this change, and to meet the warfighting requirements
in uni-
fied land operations anywhere in the world, the joint force is developing rap- idly emplaceable and treaty-compliant scatterable munition systems. PM CCS is
Office of
leading an effort, directed by the the Secretary of Defense, to
establish a program of record to develop an Ottawa Convention-compliant
air-
delivered, operator-controlled munition system that
will provide both antive-
hicle and antipersonnel munitions and will replace the current GATOR system, with an initial operating capability goal by FY25.
Despite the various challenges and antive-
hicle landmines (AVL). Tis left U.S. forces with two legacy area-denial sys- tem options for employment outside the Korean Peninsula: the M87A1 Volcano and the Remote Anti-Armor Mine. Te
faced
with the resurgence and continued needs for the legacy weapon systems, PM CCS is aligned with the Army’s priority to use existing capabilities in new ways to provide increased lethality, survivabil- ity and overmatch to both the mounted and dismounted joint force in the close
MR. EDWARD CHIN is PM CCS’ proj- ect officer for the Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition, Claymore and legacy mine systems. He holds a B.S. in mechani- cal engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York and has more than 34 years of system acquisition experience. He is an Army Acquisition Corps member and is Level III certified in program management and systems planning, research, develop- ment and engineering.
MR. CHRISTOPHER E. KRAMER (LTC, USA, Ret.) provides program management contract support to PM CCS through the Millennium Corp. He holds an M.S. in geology from Baylor University and a B.S. in geology from Monmouth College. He has more than 25 combined years of active-duty service and support to the U.S. Army as an engineer officer and to PM CCS as a sup- port contractor.
MR. KEN R. SCHULTERS is PM CCS’ project officer for nonlethal
launched
munitions. He holds a B.S. in mechani- cal engineering from the City University of New York, City College of New York and has more than 15 years of system acquisition experience. He is Level III certified in pro- gram management and systems planning, research, development and engineering.
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fight. Te FASCAM replacement with human-in-the-loop initiated effect will ultimately provide the commander with the capability to prevent, shape and win in order to accomplish their mission and meet the needs of the 21st century oper- ational environment.
For more information, contact the
authors at
edward.w.chin.civ@
mail.mil,
christopher.e.kramer.ctr@
mail.mil or
ken.r.schulters.civ@
mail.mil; or go to the PM CCS website at http://www.pica.
army.mil/pmccs/MainSite.html.
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