$ EFFICIENCIES


148 BET TER BUYING POWER 2.0 New incentives aim to expand the impact of 2010 initiative


154 BRINGING AGIL I TY TO AMMO


Changes to acquisition strategy result in better buying power and greater efficiency


160 CONSERVING C A PA BIL I T IES


AMC’s Public-Private Partnership program aims to preserve the Organic Industrial Base as operations shift to sustainment and workload requirements decrease


COMMENTARY


166 THE SUM OF MANY SUCCESSES Army Acquisition ‘changes the paradigm’ by harvesting lessons learned to improve the process


170 BACK TO THE BA SICS IN LOGIST ICS


As defense spending is reduced, the force must rebuild a technical knowledge base before skills are lost


FIELD EXPEDIENT


176 FROM CONCEPT TO RE A L I T Y Army researchers create plastic and metal objects in short order with state-of-the-art 3-D printing technology


ARMY AL&T


182 READERSHIP SURVEY 2012 What Army AL&T readers had to say about the magazine


184 BEST OF ARMY AL&T Magazine honors excellence with first annual ALTie Awards


DEPARTMENTS 200 SPOTLIGHT


186 CAREER CORNER


204 FOR THE RECORD 206 OFF THE SHELF 208 THEN & NOW


EDITORIAL STAFF


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MARGARET C. (PEGGY) ROTH Senior Editor


ROBERT E. COULTAS Departments Editor


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DARLENE POWELL Layout and Graphic Design


URI BOMBASI


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