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guidance on the government’s acquisition strategy and insight for industry to focus their internal research and development investments toward addressing the Indi- vidual Assault Munition requirements. Te government also offered the technical data package developed under the urban combat effort for industry to leverage in part or its entirety. Tis event was a criti- cal first step to generate industry interest in providing a solution.
A second industry day is planned for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 to provide program and requirement updates before the XM919 Individual Assault Munition full and open production contract request for proposals release. It is the program’s intent to acquire the XM919 Individual Assault Munition data rights. Tis will reduce the government’s dependency on a single contractor and allow for more flexibility in modifying the munition to meet future requirements. Tis is a major paradigm shift in the history of shoulder- launched munition procurements.
CONCLUSION Te XM919 Individual Assault Munition will provide a modernized single munition with a multitarget capability to penetrate and deliver incapacitating effects behind standard building walls, field fortifica- tion and bunker fighting positions, and lightly armored vehicles. Te lightweight, compact shoulder-launched munition will provide a highly lethal capability delivered in a safe, easy to operate, and readily trans- portable weapon configuration with Army forces to anywhere on the globe. Finally, it will significantly reduce the overall shoulder-launched munition cost, train- ing, logistics and life cycle management requirements.
PM CCS is reducing the commander’s burden of having to decide which shoul- der-launched munitions to carry into
“Our innovative acquisition approach to pursue mature technologies eliminates costly development efforts, reduces overall life cycle costs, and rapidly fields improved capabilities to our joint warfighter.”
battle by providing a single fully integrated munition to address potential threats. Te paradigm shift of openly competing a shoulder-launched munition contract in lieu of a sole-source arrangement provides the government more flexibility to nego- tiate better pricing. Additionally, the government strategy of acquiring a mature shoulder-launched munition system elim- inates the development cost and provides this capability to the Soldier more quickly.
For more information, contact Ken Schulters, XM919 project of ficer at
ken.r.schulters.civ@
mail.mil or go to the PM CCS website at
https://go.usa.gov/ xFrE2.
KEN SCHULTERS is the Product Director Combat Armaments and Protection Systems project officer. He has more than 21 years of civil service with the U.S. Army, providing engineering and program management in research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) and acquisition for small and medium caliber munitions, lethal and non-lethal, shoulder-launched munitions and terrain-shaping systems. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the City
College of New York and is DAWIA Level III certified in program management and systems engineering.
MARK E. BAILEY is a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor supporting PM CCS. He has more than 33 years of civil service with the U.S. Navy, supporting RDT&E, acquisition and program management on torpedoes, surface ship torpedo defense, rolling airframe missile systems, counter narco-terrorism, and hyper velocity projectiles. He has a master’s degree in public affairs from Indiana University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and was DAWIA Level III test and evaluation certified.
MICHAEL FRANZ is a DEVCOM Armaments Center mechanical engineer supporting shoulder-launched munitions. He has more than 19 years of civil service with the U.S. Army, supporting RDT&E, acquisition and technical management on shoulder-launched munitions and their major subsystems. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is Level III certified in engineering, Level I certified in program management, and is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps.
STYLES E. UNDERWOOD JR., Nemean Solutions LLC, is the senior capabilities development analyst and expert for shoulder-launched munitions. He has more than 41 years of military experience with combat requirements development, training development, doctrine coordination and new equipment training on both heavy and medium anti-armor missile systems and shoulder-fired rockets. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science in resource and technology management from Troy University.
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