DOLLARS & SENSE


RAVEN SAVINGS


SFC Chris Loomis, senior instructor for the Warrior Leadership Course, 218th Leader- ship Regiment, South Carolina Army National Guard, launches a RQ-11B Raven for an instruction flight Nov. 21, 2013, at McCrady Training Center, Eastover, SC. Through a number of efficiencies, the SUAS PdO has saved an estimated $9,358 in sustainment costs per Raven system. (Army National Guard photo by SGT Brian Calhoun, 108th Pub- lic Affairs Detachment)


Te “Dollars and Sense” feature in the October-December 2013 issue


of Army AL&T maga-


Reflecting the BBP 2.0 focus on improv- ing tradecraft in acquisition of services, the SUAS PdO used contractors other than the prime to provide subject-matter expert support in OEF and to build and field the VAMPIRE Institutional Train- ing System. Te resulted cost exceeded $3.25 million.


savings


Te SUAS PdO is a small, lean, flexible team, which not only keeps overhead rates low but also enables the team to react quickly to changes and find solu- tions that work. Te principles of BBP 2.0 have been, and will continue to be, business as usual in the PdO.


For more information, contact Mr.


Max Mitchell, Deputy PdM SUAS, at max.h.mitchell2.civ@mail.mil.


MR. JOSEPH M. “JOE” JEFFERSON, a retired Army lieutenant colonel (Field Artillery), is a senior acquisition policy specialist in the Acquisition and Industrial Base Policy Directorate, Office of the ASA(ALT). He holds a B.S. in commercial marketing from South Carolina State University. Jefferson is Level III certified in program management and in information technology. He is also a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a member of the U.S. Army Acquisition Corps.


CONTRIBUTORS: LTC Scott Anderson, PdM Ground Maneuver; Mr. Todd Smith, Deputy PdM Gound Maneuver; Ms. Mona Mosser, Documentation Team Lead, Ground Maneuver, PM UAS; and Mr. Max Mitchell, Deputy PdM SUAS.


zine inadvertently omitted the names of the program managers who submitted the information on the cost


savings/avoidances


and efficiencies discussed in the article. Te details of “Spinning Up Savings” came from LTC Brian Stehle, PdM for devel- opment and modernization in the Apache Helicopter Project Office of PEO Aviation, and Mr. Michael Horrocks, Assis- tant PdM for development and modernization. Te specifics for “Black Hawk Up” came


from


COL Tomas H. Todd III, PEO Aviation’s PM Utility Helicop- ters, and Mr. Craig S. Boehme, chief,


Business Management


Division in the Utility Helicop- ters Project Office.


112 Army AL&T Magazine January–March 2014


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100  |  Page 101  |  Page 102  |  Page 103  |  Page 104  |  Page 105  |  Page 106  |  Page 107  |  Page 108  |  Page 109  |  Page 110  |  Page 111  |  Page 112  |  Page 113  |  Page 114  |  Page 115  |  Page 116  |  Page 117  |  Page 118  |  Page 119  |  Page 120  |  Page 121  |  Page 122  |  Page 123  |  Page 124  |  Page 125  |  Page 126  |  Page 127  |  Page 128  |  Page 129  |  Page 130  |  Page 131  |  Page 132  |  Page 133  |  Page 134  |  Page 135  |  Page 136  |  Page 137  |  Page 138  |  Page 139  |  Page 140  |  Page 141  |  Page 142  |  Page 143  |  Page 144  |  Page 145  |  Page 146  |  Page 147  |  Page 148  |  Page 149  |  Page 150  |  Page 151  |  Page 152  |  Page 153  |  Page 154  |  Page 155  |  Page 156  |  Page 157  |  Page 158  |  Page 159  |  Page 160  |  Page 161  |  Page 162  |  Page 163  |  Page 164  |  Page 165  |  Page 166  |  Page 167  |  Page 168  |  Page 169  |  Page 170  |  Page 171  |  Page 172  |  Page 173  |  Page 174  |  Page 175  |  Page 176  |  Page 177  |  Page 178  |  Page 179  |  Page 180