MS. NICKEE ABBOTT
COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: Army Rapid Capabilities Office, System of Systems Engineering and Integration (SOSE&I) Director- ate, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology
TITLE: Chief engineer, Army Rapid Capa- bilities Office; director for engineering and integration and chief engineer, SOSE&I
YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 28
DAWIA CERTIFICATIONS: Level III in systems engineering
EDUCATION: M.S. in strategy and planning, U.S. Army War College; M.S. in electrical en- gineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology; B.S. in electrical engineering, Drexel University. Also attended Harvard Kennedy School’s Se- nior Executive Fellows and Senior Managers in Government programs and Aberdeen Proving Ground Senior Leadership Cohort 3 Program.
AWARDS: Outstanding Achievement Award from the former Program Executive Office (PEO) for Integration and the PEO for Command, Con- trol and Communications – Tactical, for Brigade Combat Team Integration Exercise; Command- er’s Award for Network Integration Evaluation; Outstanding Achievement Award for Asso- ciation of the United States Army Integration; Outstanding Achievement Awards from SOSE&I and its predecessor organization, System of Systems Integration; the Honorable Dr. Claude Bolton Jr. Engineering and Systems Integration Professional of the Year, an Army Acquisition Executive Excellence in Leadership award
Change is what you make of it H
aving encountered shifting missions and numerous reorganiza- tions over her 28-year career as an Army civilian, Nickee Abbott knows a few things about change: It’s good, mostly. It can be a little stressful. It offers tremendous opportunity. And it’s one of
the biggest challenges she faces in her work.
Abbott is chief engineer for the Army Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) and chief engineer and director for engineering and integration for the System of Systems Engineering and Integration (SOSE&I) Directorate within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. In those roles, she is charged with engineering, designing and assessing the performance of current and future architectures based on incre- mental Army modernization objectives and materiel development efforts that address immediate, near-term and emerging operational requirements.
With RCO and the recently formed cross-functional teams, “the Army is embarking on new initiatives to rapidly modernize, equip and provide increased capabilities to the warfighter,” Abbott said. “Tese initiatives require disciplined systems engineering methods to design capability in a robust and extensible way so it is capable of incorporating emerging tech- nologies into existing or future architectures. Te key to building a good architecture is defining specific operational scenarios and then developing solutions that address the functional and performance characteristics derived from those scenarios. My greatest satisfaction comes when these solutions are deployed and the system performs as designed and meets all the opera- tional requirements—as well as unexpected scenarios—as a direct result of the upfront systems engineering for flexibility and expansion.”
Hers is not a position for the introverted. “In my work, you have to be inte- grated and involved, to be able to understand the problem and think outside the box,” she explained. “Tere’s so many moving parts involved in systems
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Army AL&T Magazine
April-June 2018
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