PLANS TAKING FLIGHT
CH-47 Chinook, HH-60 and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crews of the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division take off Jan. 25 for their tactical assembly area inside the Hohenfels Training Area Airfield, Germany. The crews were part of Allied Spirit VIII, a multinational training exercise focusing on tactical interoperability and secure communications among NATO alliance members. “The U.S. military is not ready for the threats we face today,” said Paul Scharre, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “In a major power war, we will be required to innovate on timelines of months, not years. And we must have these processes of innovation in place today.” (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gregory T. Summers, 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
Te fundamental difference that the new command is intended to make—to bring the stakeholders under “one roof” to make decisions that will produce effec- tive, achievable, affordable capabilities and requirements rapidly and thus get the products to the warfighter fast—lies in the cross-functional teams, each led by a military or civilian leader from the operational side of the Army. Each cross- functional team has representatives from requirements
development, program
management, science and technology (S&T), test and evaluation, resourcing, contracting and sustainment, as well as U.S. Forces Command and, as needed, Army service component commands, the operational organizations that serve as Army components for combatant commands.
Te teams, which report to the undersec- retary of the Army and the vice chief of staff, will seek industry and academia’s
involvement early in the process of devel- oping solutions to get their input on potential private-sector solutions avail- able or in development.
Experimentation and technical demon- strations, will also be integral to the cross-functional teams’ capability devel- opment process, involving Soldiers to help determine if a solution will actu- ally work, as needed, well before the Army decides to acquire or develop it. In remarks Oct. 10 at AUSA, Gen. Mark A. Milley, Army chief of staff, described this “significant streamlining of processes” as a
“shift to a SOCOM [U.S. Special Opera- tions Command]-like model of buy, try, decide and acquire, rather than the cur- rent, industrial-age, linear model that takes
years to establish requirements,
decades to test and may take a long, long time to go from idea to delivery.”
Among experienced practitioners of rapid acquisition, hopes are high that the command will succeed, but there are caveats. Te command will require a well-defined independence and author- ity, said Peter Newell, who directed the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF)
“Our modernization strategy is now on a curve of diminishing returns.” —Undersecretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy
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