A RARE FIND


FIND A RARE W


ith the establishment of the Forum for Inno- vative Novel Discovery (FIND) and the Capabilities Information Exchange (CIE), TRADOC has broken new ground, involving


industry in creating innovative warfighting capabilities with a clear focus on future force development that will help both ARCIC and industry prioritize their efforts.


“We do have an opportunity to engage industry partners ear- lier in the requirements process, and we’re moving to do that through the CIE and also through the FIND process,” said Maj. Gen. Robert M. “Bo” Dyess, ARCIC deputy director.


Te initial pilot for FIND brought six companies, chosen from 28 submissions responding to the FedBizOpps.gov announce- ment, to Washington on Oct. 3-4, 2016, to present their research and development (R&D) ideas and technologies to an audience of general officers from the Army’s acquisition, resources and requirements communities. “Essentially we’re just kind of teach- ing, mentoring,” Dyess said. “Tere was no prize of money or anything, but there was a point of contact so we could point them in that direction.”


TRADOC chose robotics and autonomous systems as the scope of the inaugural FIND, held in conjunction with the Associa- tion of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition. “Te next one that we do could be in another capa- bility area,” Dyess said. Te second FIND event is scheduled to coincide with the AUSA Global Force Symposium & Exposi- tion slated for March 13-15 in Huntsville, Alabama. FIND is expected to continue as a semiannual event, timed to coincide with AUSA’s fall and spring meetings.


Lt. Col. Eric Van De Hey, who leads the Industry Engagement Branch in the Science and Technology Research and Acceler- ated Capabilities Division of ARCIC, described FIND as a rare opportunity for selected small businesses to hear firsthand how


they could support the Army’s capability needs. It brought the small business entities “before a panel of senior military folks, really looking at the resourcing requirements,” to answer ques- tions such as, “What did the small business have to offer the Army? How could the Army shape those offerings?”


Held Dec. 15, 2016, CIE was designed to be a much broader forum, open to all interested members of industry, “to give them an overarching session of what we see the future Army needing,


REALM OF THE POSSIBLE


Like the army warfighting assessments (AWAs) and the network integration evaluations, FIND and the CIE will allow the Army to explore “the art of the possible” using industry prototypes like this Andros FX that was tested during AWA 17.1 in October 2016 at Fort Bliss. Taken together, all of the events provide an opportunity for industry to gain a better understanding of Army requirements, and for the Army to better understand industry’s possibilities. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Cashmere Jefferson, 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


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