FROM THE AAE
ACQUISITION SUCCESSES FROM THE ARMY ACQUISITION EXECUTIVE
MS. HEIDI SHYU Building on our A
s we press forward together with a mind to best serving our Soldiers, it strikes me as both prudent and worthwhile to
reflect for a moment on how we can build on our collective progress and recent suc- cesses as an acquisition community.
As you know, we have been immersed in ongoing improvements emphasizing affordability, streamlining requirements at the front end of the procurement pro- cess, incentivizing innovation, increasing competition, and harnessing emerging technologies. We pursue these aims with hard work and unwavering resolve to ensure that we deliver Soldiers the best available equipment and capabilities.
The Army has worked vigorously over the last 10 years to adjust to the fast-changing demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in some instances adjusting procurement approaches in order to meet the urgent needs of forces in combat.
STUDIES IN SUCCESS The Army has achieved success in count- less acquisition efforts, adjusting and meeting the fast-changing demands of the
DELIVERING CAPABILITY
Lessons learned in the acquisition community allow the Army to provide the best technology and equipment for Soldiers, both mounted and dismounted, such as this Soldier with 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on a joint patrol with Afghan National Security Forces in Andar District, Afghanistan, in January 2011. (International Security Assistance Force photo by U.S. Air Force SSgt Joseph Swafford.)
two wars. Our successes include the rapid procurement of large-scale systems such as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehi- cles, Strykers with a Double V-Hull, and unmanned aerial systems. We have also rapidly procured communications equip- ment like Force Battle Command Brigade and Below and smaller items for the indi- vidual dismounted Soldier, such as digitally enhanced night vision goggles, protective body armor, and lighter-weight weapons.
Other Army acquisition successes include the delivery of flame-resistant uniforms, Individual Gunshot Detection systems, and thousands of small tactical robots able to clear caves and buildings in search of IEDs.
The Army has committed to a new way of doing acquisition—a more agile approach that emphasizes affordability, embraces innovation, supports competi- tion, and rewards technological maturity. Where commercially available solutions exist, we have committed to adopting them. Where our needs depend on rap- idly evolving technologies, we avoid trying to reinvent them. In some cases, we can blend formal programs of record
with promising commercially available technologies and bring improved capa- bility to the force faster. Above all, where opportunities arise to efficiently reduce costs, we seek to capitalize on them. The decision to cancel the Ground Mobile Radio, for example, was fully consistent with this approach, reflecting advances in radio technology, as well as recent efforts to revise requirements, in pursuit of more effective and affordable solutions.
NIE
The Army’s ongoing semiannual Net- work Integration Evaluation represents an effort to streamline acquisition. The NIE is designed to evaluate and integrate emerging technologies in the combat- relevant environment of White Sands Missile Range, NM, allowing the Army to execute with a directed requirement. This operational assessment of systems signifies an important step forward as equipment is tested in combat-relevant environments before fielding, thereby reducing initial equipment and weapon issues and neces- sary modifications in theater.
The NIE represents a new way of doing business for the Army, with the ultimate
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