Bringing the Materiel Enterprise to the operational level by COL Richard B. Dix and LTC Stephen T. Wall
COORDINATED EFFORT
Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology-Directorates (AL&T-Ds) coordinate, synchronize, and integrate AL&T planning and execution conducted by Program Executive Officers (PEOs) and Program Managers (PMs) with other acquisition players within Combined Joint Operations Area-Afghanistan (CJOA-A). Pictured are LTC Joyce Stewart, 401st Army Field Support Brigade (AFSB) AL&T Director, and MAJ Christopher M. Byrd, 401st AFSB AL&T-D Systems Acqui- sitions Officer, with Marine Sgt Jonathan D. Dukette, who is working on a Talon IV robot at the Robotics Systems Joint Program Office facility at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan in September 2011. (U.S. Army photos by Summer Barkley, 401st AFSB.)