NEW, MONEY-SAVING PROCESS
Joseph Ward injects asphalt into a recovered projectile to cover the surface of the inert cement fill before loading the Insensitive Munition Explosive-101, which replaces TNT and Composition B and provides a more stable fill. Sometimes requirements focus on how to use cast-off parts in new ways. (Photo by Kevin Jackson, U.S. Army Materiel Command)
Wins: I have a number of service uniformed personnel who work in my organization who are part of the Army Acquisition Corps. And it doesn’t hurt to ensure that we have some of [the acquisition commu- nity’s] best and brightest come and spend a little time on the operational side, to make sure that we are learning from them and they are learning from us—what it means to have a requirement written in a certain way, what it means when we start talking about, “Hey, we want to go with a software solution,” or, “We think we need to go with an off-the-shelf solution.” We can work together to understand the actual impact our efforts have on you all [the acquisi- tion community] once the requirement is approved, once the resources have been found and once you all have assigned it to a PM or product manager. I think that is pretty valuable.
I think that we need to continue to ensure that the education afforded to our acquisition officers and civilian corps, as well as our capability developers, remains current and informs both sides. We need to make sure there are sufficient blocks of instruction that cover both so that people,
at least in a classroom settings, are being well educated so that when they get in the field, they can help us build what’s necessary for our force across the range of operations we are required to perform.
Army AL&T: Well, we’ll pass on your idea about a talent exchange to LTG Michael E. Williamson [Army direc- tor, acquisition career management]. But you’re right. If you don’t know what the other guy is doing, it’s hard to under- stand why they say what they do.
Wins: And I’m really talking about some- thing that LTG Williamson and his folks have already been very good partners in. We recently had a very senior colonel with a great deal of acquisition experience working down in TRADOC, very much embedded in the work we’re doing as part of the Force 2025 effort. We had the opportunity to sit and discuss with him how this effort gets shaped appropriately, what we need to understand about when we can expect the delivery of capability, how you approach it best: Do you go after the whole thing, or do you kind of spiral it in or progressively build on the capability
in order to not create significant cost prob- lems for yourself? He was very valuable, and so the hope is that we’ll continue to do that. Tere’s a lot of good collaboration that’s going on at all levels.
Army AL&T: Sir, we greatly appreci- ate your time. Is there anything else you want to add?
Wins: In this day and age, when we know that the level of resourcing we received over the last 12 years—particularly the resourcing we received for combat opera- tions—is being reduced so significantly, we’ve got to set ourselves up to ensure that continued modernization occurs for the force, and we’ve got to do it smartly and we’ve got to be efficient with it. We’ve got to be disciplined with it, and we’ve got to make sure that we’ve got the right type of leadership oversight to make sure that, from start to finish we deliver on what it is that we’re saying are the most essen- tial capabilities for the Army. You’re not going to be able to get everything, and at the end of the day, we’re really still inter- ested in providing the best capability for the warfighter.
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