WORLD-CLASS TECH, ACCORDING TO PLAN
will have to change the way we do business to support a new focus. Our campaign plan is the road map to do that.”
Te goal of the plan’s four lines of effort is to focus the 24,000-strong command more tightly on the capabilities that Army leadership has made its top pri- orities while maintaining the balance needed to make the new discoveries and develop the new technologies that will become the capabilities the future force needs to be dominant. Te lines of effort are: integrated technology development and engineering services; talent manage- ment and infrastructure; business process and resource optimization; and strategic communications.
RDECOM is leveraging its campaign plan to optimize resources and collabo- rate across the Army community and with industry, academia and international partners to inform S&T requirements and execute research and technology that will deliver required capabilities for Soldiers.
RDECOM, a major subordinate com- mand of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, also works closely with its fellow Army S&T partners—the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Com- mand, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center—to round out its portfolio.
LICENSE TO INTEGRATE Te integrated technology development and engineering services line of effort is intended to focus the command on iden- tifying and inserting the right research and technology to fill gaps in current and future capabilities, as well as synchro- nizing RDECOM’s major S&T efforts with the chief of staff’s six moderniza- tion priorities. A number of RDECOM’s efforts that currently link directly to the Army’s priorities include robotics, arti- ficial intelligence and autonomy. Tese technologies will enable the NGCV and FVL to perform both manned and unmanned operations, which will be required for the joint force in future air and ground domains. RDECOM also
continues to develop technologies that provide assured positioning, navigation and timing and support cyber and elec- tronic warfare, critical components for both long-range precision fires and the network.
Integration across its six research, devel- opment and engineering centers (RDECs) and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is an important component of this line of effort.
For example, plans for FVL will lever- age multiple areas of expertise within RDECOM,
including engineers who
can produce technology that allows plat- forms to perform complex navigation and a communication system that will operate in anti-access and aerial denial (A2AD) environments. Because of antici- pated future threats, FVL platforms also will need active protection systems for maneuver and enhanced weapon systems for lethality. As stand-alone efforts, these systems are impressive, but maintaining the dominance the Army needs requires a fully integrated suite of capabilities that
LIVE, VIRTUAL AND INSTRUCTIVE
A Stryker vehicle commander interacts in real time with a Soldier avatar that is operated remotely from a collective trainer. ARL, University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation are working together to develop a synthetic training environment that links augmented reality with live training—one of several RDECOM efforts that link to the Army’s modernization priorities. (U.S. Army photo)
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