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THE HONORABLE HEIDI SHYU Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT))/Army Acquisition Executive


EDITORIAL BOARD


LTG WILLIAM N. PHILLIPS Director, Army Acquisition Corps and Director, Acquisition Career Management


LTG SUSAN S. LAWRENCE U.S. Army Chief Information Officer/G-6


LTG JEFFREY W. TALLEY Chief, U.S. Army Reserve/Commanding General (CG), U.S. Army Reserve Command


LTG JAMES O. BARCLAY III Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-8


LTG PATRICIA E. MCQUISTION Deputy CG/Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Materiel Command


MG HAROLD J. GREENE Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management, Office of the ASA(ALT) (OASA(ALT))


MG (DR.) JOSEPH CARAVALHO JR. CG, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command


WIMPY D. PYBUS DASA for Acquisition Policy and Logistics, OASA(ALT)


DR. JEFFERY P. HOLLAND Director of Research and Development/ Chief Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers


ROY A. WALLACE Assistant DCS, G-1


MARY MILLER DASA for Research and Technology, OASA(ALT)


THOMAS E. MULLINS DASA for Plans, Programs and Resources, OASA(ALT)


HARRY P. HALLOCK DASA for Procurement, OASA(ALT)


ANN CATALDO DASA for Defense Exports and Cooperation, OASA(ALT)


CRAIG A. SPISAK Director, U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC)


NELSON MCCOUCH III Executive Secretary, Editorial Board, USAASC


FEATURES $


EFFICIENCIES


72 MA K ING I T OFFICI A L Kendall describes his vision of professionalism in launching Better Buying Power 2.0


78 RE VISING THE RULEBOOK


PEO AMMO helps bolster the Better Buying Power goal of reducing nonproductive processes and bureacracy


82 AGILE INFORMAT ION


PM AcqBusiness identifies innovative data capabilities to serve the Army Acquisition Workforce


86 ENGINE OF EFFICIENC Y


Applying better buying power principles eliminates redundancy in vehicle testing for tomorrow’s Army


COMMENTARY


90 ACQUISITION AND THE A RMY PROFESSION Values, continuous development set workforce apart


94 DECISIVE EXECUTION


Managing the scope and challenges of a retrograde operation: an acquisition officer’s insights


100 REMA KING AMERIC AN SECURIT Y


Supply chain vulnerabilities and national security risk across the U.S. defense industrial base


FIELD EXPEDIENT


104 A BOA R IS BORN Soldiers adapt Capability Set 13 technologies to create a more mobile communications solution for rugged terrain


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Army AL&T Magazine


July–September 2013


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