PLAYING BY THE RULES


ALL FUTURE PROGRAMS IN WHICH ADOPTING OTHER MILITARY SERVICE AMMUNITION FOR ARMY USE IS BEING CONSIDERED WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS AR REVISION. IT ALLOWS MATERIEL DEVELOPERS TO USE A COMMON-SENSE APPROACH TO CAPTURE SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL COST AND TIME SAVINGS.


MK248 MOD 0


The MK248 Mod 0 ammunition, fielded by the U.S. Navy in 1994, was fielded to the Army at a cost of $719,281, in only 10 months. (Photo courtesy of ATK Federal Premium Ammunition)


to the field. According to the regula- tion, these processes must be followed when the Army is fielding systems to the warfighter.


PEO Ammunition and its Project Man- ager Maneuver Ammunition Systems (PM MAS) had requirements to field to the Army the 5.56 mm MK301 Mod 0 dim trace cartridge and the .300 Win- chester Magnum (WinMag) MK248 Mod 0 sniper ammunition.


Te 5.56mm MK301 Mod 0 cartridge provides the user with tracer signa- ture capability that


is observable only


through a night vision device, so that the sniper can see the line of fire and point of impact during nighttime operations.


Te .300 WinMag, MK248 Mod 0 pro- vides sniper ammunition used with the XM2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle to engage targets accurately out to and beyond 1,100 meters.


MK301 MOD 0


The MK 301 Mod 0 was fielded by the U.S. Navy in 2008. Putting it through TC and FMR would have cost the Army an estimated $1.2 million and taken 21 months to complete. By eliminating the TC process and going directly to FMR, the cartridge was fielded to the Army at a cost of $799,513, in 12 months. (Photo courtesy of Nammo Vanäsverken AB)


IMPROVING THE PROCESS Te MK301 Mod 0 and MK248 Mod 0 were fielded by the U.S. Navy in 2008 and 1994, respectively. To field these rounds to the Army, PM-MAS had to follow the AR and put both these rounds through the TC and FMR processes, even though


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the Navy had already done so. PEO Ammunition and PM MAS believed that TC and FMR were nonproductive, redundant processes when the Army was adopting ammunition, without “configu- ration changes,” that had already been fielded to the Navy.


Te PEO and PM MAS proposed to the deputy assistant secretary of


the


Army for acquisition policy and logistics (DASA(APL)), the proponent of this AR, to waive the TC process for fielding the MK301 Mod 0 and MK248 Mod 0.


Before granting the request for TC waiver, the DASA(APL) wanted to evaluate the proposal with all relevant stakeholders: the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, U.S. Army Public Health Command,


safety office, independent


logistics support office, environmental office, PEO Ammunition and PM MAS. At that time, the AR revision was being discussed, and the proposed TC waiver or elimination became part of that discussion.


After months of evaluation and


collaboration with the stakeholders, not only was the proposed TC waiver or elimination granted, but the regulation also was revised to include language that eliminates the Army’s TC process


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