Development
and Engineering Center
in Massachusetts and build on research already completed.
MAKE FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY EASIER Operationalizing the command and delivering technology quickly, which Wins calls “speed of delivery,” requires collaboration and planning between the command and its research and devel- opment centers and labs because the command has personnel in more than 100 locations, in 11 countries and across five continents. Te business process and resource optimization team is standard- izing the command’s financial processes and identifying more efficient ways to conduct business.
“When we get an urgent request for infor- mation or work to be done, we want to be able to move quickly,” Wins said. “One key to doing that is having visibility on what everyone across the command is
doing and standardizing business pro- cesses so we can move at the speed of the technology, not the speed of the bureaucracy.”
Te business process and resource optimi- zation team issued standardized budget guidance to maintain consistency and transparency across the command to the RDECs and ARL before the FY18 bud- gets were developed. Once the budgets were finalized, they were added into an internal RDECOM system, the Finan- cial Integrated Reporting Environment (FIRE). One of the benefits of loading detailed budget information into FIRE is that it is automatically fed to the govern- ment financial accounting system so that it can be extracted easily if a customer needs more detail or supporting informa- tion. Te final step before the budgets were sent for approval was a robust review process.
“We need to take a cue from industry. They’re proving every day that when you integrate technologies—the phone, the tablet, the computer, the TV, the cloud, etc.—you give the end user capabilities beyond what each technology can offer.”
“With all of the changes that the team has added, we have a more transparent system that will allow us to troubleshoot financial challenges that arise,” said Paul Dunaway, RDECOM resource manage- ment director.
‘TELL SOLDIERS WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THEM’ Strategic communication is important to RDECOM, which relies extensively on collaboration and partnerships to bring the best technology to Soldiers.
“Our science and technology doesn’t do the Soldier any good if nobody knows about it,” Wins said. “Strategic commu- nications help us develop the ecosystem we need to remain at the forefront of the many areas we work in, both internally and externally. It helps us tell Soldiers and battlefield commanders what we can do for them.”
Te command’s goal is to increase out- reach efforts by attending more S&T and recruiting conferences, exercises and technology demonstrations to exhibit RDECOM’s latest technologies and receive feedback from its stakeholders. Tese events offer opportunities to collab- orate with industry and demonstrate how innovative technologies and experimen- tal prototypes can transition to program executive offices and program managers for further development and fielding.
CONCLUSION By collaborating across
the command
and working with academic and industry partners, RDECOM maintains a steady stream of world-class technology. Tese technologies will not only fill current and emerging capability gaps, but they also will mirror the modernization pri- orities set by Army leadership and enable RDECOM to continue developing and delivering capabilities that empower, unburden and protect the warfighter.
“We will use our campaign plan as a guideline while we determine which technologies to focus on and how fast we can make them available for Soldiers,” Wins said. “Speed of delivery is key to our mission.”
For more information, go to http://www.
rdecom.army.mil/ or contact RDECOM Public Affairs at 443-395-3922.
MS. ARGIE SARANTINOS-PERRIN,
a public affairs specialist for Huntington Ingalls Industries – Technical Solutions Division, provides contract support to RDECOM. She holds an M.S. in professional writing and a B.A. in mass communications from Towson University. She has 12 years of public affairs experience supporting DOD.
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