DIGITAL ENGINEERING LEARNING CURVE


-instructed training enables the workforce to learn and be useful quickly through streamlined and context-based education. APEO SEI intends to partner with the U.S. Army Combat Capabili- ties Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center to incorporate the training into workforce development to support propagation of the newly developed skills.


For more information, contact Macam Dattathreya, Ph.D., at macam.s.dattathreya.civ@army.mil.


MACAM DATTATHREYA, PH.D., is the chief engineer WORKFORCE TRAINING


Students participate in an interactive training session at the PM XM30 office in Warren, Michigan. (Photo courtesy of PM XM30)


Te first two classes are heavily structured and led by the instruc- tors, with subsequent classes pairing students for the practical exercises. Te final classes require the students to complete the practical exercises independently. Tis approach helps students navigate through the concepts slowly, methodically and incre- mentally, using a ground combat vehicle system architecture model to help explain MOSA principles and model-based systems engineering concepts.


CONCLUSION DOD’s push for digital acquisition, along with the new MOSA statute, requires modern skills within the acquisition workforce, while retaining the irreplaceable expertise of our acquisition workforce. Building a digital engineering and MOSA-enabled workforce requires training current employees to employ new tools, modeling languages and approaches. Using best-of-breed academic and industry training, along with specific practical examples from ground combat vehicles, is key to quickly build- ing competency within PM XM30 and the larger PEO GCS workforce.


A road to a digitally aware workforce, one mile at a time, is exclu- sive and probably the first ever training approach employed within the Army to train their workforce on the model-based training with MOSA. Using this unique government-led, -developed and


for PEO GCS and has 30 years of work experience in multiple engineering fields across commercial and public sectors. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering and an M.S. in computer engineering, both from Wayne State University, and a bachelor of engineering in industrial and production engineering from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering in India. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and holds the DAWIA Foundational certification in engineering and technical management.


COL. JEFFERY W. JURAND is the project manager for the XM30 Combat Vehicle at PEO GCS and a basic branch armor officer in the U.S. Army. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from the University of Maryland, a B.S. in engineering science from Vanderbilt University and he


studied cybersecurity and


artificial intelligence through the U.S. Army War College Senior Service College Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.


STEVEN A. DAWSON is the assistant program executive officer for systems engineering and integration at PEO GCS. He has 34 years of experience in engineering support program management for Combat Support and Combat vehicle systems at the Detroit Arsenal. He last served as the engineering director to the Project Manager Stryker Brigade Combat Team. He holds an M.S. in program management from the Naval Postgraduate School, a Master of Strategic Studies from the Army War College and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland.


CONTRIBUTORS:


Aaron Hart, product director, Light Tactical Vehicles; Maj. Robert Pedrigi, assistant program manager, PM XM30; Benjamin A. Steadman, senior systems engineer, PEO GCS; and Ricardo Defense Inc.


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