AP landmines, combined with anti-vehi- cle (AV) landmines, shape terrain on the battlefield. Tey deny terrain, impede mobility and enhance the effectiveness of friendly direct and indirect fires.
Te problem with the landmines comes when a conflict is over and victim- triggered AP mines litter the countryside. Te Ottawa Treaty came about after many years of unexploded mines killing innocent civilians and stories of dead or maimed children, farmers and livestock as the result of munitions never cleared.
Te Army was trying to partially close that gap with the M7 Spider Networked Munition program. At
commercial
intelligence,
surveillance
and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors. Core hardware and software could be updated as commercial sensors were updated. Te results were ADAPT hardware and software packages that could be used for unattended ground sensors with potential military applications.
the same time,
DARPA was running the ADAPTable Sensor System (ADAPT) program, which sought to find novel uses and means of rapid production for comparatively cheap
A small California firm, Fantastic Data, showed that the ADAPT approach was feasible, and DARPA sensed a solution to the landmine capability gap. DARPA asked Fantastic Data to further develop its applications to see if such a capability were feasible. When Fantastic Data showed that it was, DARPA handed the concept over
to the Program Executive Office
(PEO) for Ammunition and the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) to try to make it a reality. Te two organizations turned to the
DOD Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) and its industry and academia component, the National Armaments Consortium, to find participants willing to compete.
Te difference was that TRADOC did not come up with requirements in a vacuum; instead, the command and the GLMR product manager put out a call through DOTC during
the analysis
of alternatives phase to find out what industry could do, and used “other transaction authority” (OTA) agreements as the contracting vehicle. Enabled by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, OTAs are designed for use in basic, applied and advanced research and prototyping projects when it’s in the government’s best interest not to use conventional contracts, grants or cooperative agreements.
OTAs by nature do not have to comply with the many rigorous reporting and documentation requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Te ability to bypass all the red tape of the FAR provides OTAs with much more flexibility as well as a valuable entry point for “nontraditional” defense companies— in other words, pretty much any company not currently doing business with the government.
CHARGED UP
Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team (3rd BCT), 1st Cavalry Division (1 CD) detonate a mine-clearing line charge during live-fire training at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, in October 2016. GLMR’s concept involves a self-repairing, meshed network that will continue to function in the event of a breach or sensor malfunction, and has the potential for broader application in military and nonmilitary environments. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick, 3rd BCT, 1 CD)
IN SEARCH OF A NEW MINDSET Using the OTA through DOTC “allows us to get to small businesses that don’t normally partner with the government,” said Col. Christopher Hall, chief of the Maneuver Support Division of TRA- DOC’s Army Capabilities Center (ARCIC).
Integration
“We go out and say, ‘Hey, we need somebody to look at the Gator Landmine Replacement problem. Here’s a description of what we’re looking for;
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