DEMYSTIFYING THE CPR
A. Let me talk about some successes we’ve had. One of the earliest CPRs was Pre- cision Fires. The idea was that we had a number of munitions that provide preci- can get from our Joint partners on the - clusions that came out of that was that we didn’t need to buy as many [M982 155mm] Excaliburs as we had planned.
‘IT’S ABOUT EQUIPPING OUR SOLDIER’ CPRs allow ASAALT, PEOs, and PMs to look across programs for opportunities to gain efficiencies and to get better value for the military and the taxpayer. Here, SPC Paul Tabor, Team Leader with 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Brigade, Task Force 4-25 scans his sector of the perimeter May 28 in the Tani District of Khost province, Afghanistan. Team Delaware was on an Afghan National Army-led patrol of villages. (Photo by SGT William Begley, 11th Public Affairs Detachment.)
So we reduced, as an Army, our require- ment for Excalibur from 30,000 to about 6,300 rounds. The result of that is that we were able to return about half a billion dol- lars in the [FY] 13-17 POM that could be used for other Army critical needs. Add- ing in the out-years, it got it up to almost $900 million that could be returned for other needs. So that’s pretty important.
is redundancy and that capability is pro- vided someplace else,” or even, “We’re willing to accept the risk here—opera- tional capability risk—because that’s not as important as some other capability the Army wants to spend its money on.”
Q. Is there an element of reporting
involved in terms of success? Have you seen optimal approaches to reporting in preparation for these CPRs?
A. Well, the process that one goes through to prepare for a CPR starts with a Council of Colonels, and there may be multiple Councils of Colonels, then one- and two-star leaders and a four- star session that will be chaired by the Vice [Chief of Staff] but attended by the Acquisition Executive. What’s critical in the reporting is that our team is working together and forming up issues that need to be resolved at the higher levels.
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product managers that have systems in a given capability set are reporting to their PEOs. The division chiefs who come out of the DASM [Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management] are reporting to me, and then we’re sharing that infor- mation across the ASAALT community so that we see the issues that are coming.
We can look at the problems. We can look for solutions, get metrics on the various trade-offs involved, and then fold that up into the one- and two-star forum and then obviously prepare [Army Acquisi- tion Executive] Ms. [Heidi] Shyu as she goes into the session with the Vice Chief of Staff, so we can have a fruitful discus- sion there.
Q. Could you put that in the context of past CPRs?
In the context of the budget environment we’re going into, we could talk about the Air and Missile Defense Capability Port- into 2011. We looked at all of the capa- bilities in the Air and Missile Defense Portfolio, and the result of
that was a
focus on getting to an Integrated Battle Command System for air and missile defense; recommending the termination of the MEADS program, the Medium Extended Air Defense System, and the SLAMRAAM program,
the Surface
Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile; and reducing the procurement of JLANS, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor program. The net result was that it freed up the resources that we needed to really get all of our air missile defense systems networked together.
The CPR also allowed us to fund a Ser- vice Life Extension Program for the Stinger missile, and retain funding for a number of other missions and cruise
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