From the Army Acquisition Executive The Army is committed to continually improving the process of
developing, procuring, and sustaining our weapon systems. Likewise, we are committed to investing in cutting-edge technologies that provide our Soldiers with the decisive edge in battle.
The Army compiled a list of my predecessors within the Research, Development, and Acquisition community— now Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology—and I want to share their names with you. Their leader- ship and the achievements of their acquisition teams contributed significantly to our Army, the world’s most capable, powerful, and respected force. Now, it is our time.
The Army is committed to continually improving the process of developing, procuring, and sustaining our weapon systems. Likewise, we are committed to investing in cutting-edge technologies that provide our Soldiers with the decisive edge in battle. The Army’s decision in 1999 to combine logistics, the largest portion of total life-cycle costs for weapon systems and equipment, with acquisition and technology reflects the importance of all communities working together for our warfighters.
Army Acquisition Leaders Willis M. Hawkins
Russell D. O’Neal Robert L. Johnson
Norman R. Augustine Edward A. Miller Percy A. Pierre Jay R. Sculley
Stephen K. Conver Gilbert F. Decker Paul J. Hoeper*
Claude M. Bolton Jr. Dr. Malcolm Ross O’Neill
We are also fully committed to delivering better value to the taxpayer and the warfighter by improving the way we do business. Next to supporting our forces at war on an urgent basis, this is President Barack Obama’s and Secretary Robert Gates’ highest priority for our acquisition professionals. As Secretary Gates has said, one dollar of waste in our defense budget is a dollar we can’t spend to support our troops, to prepare for future threats, or to
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protect the American people. While we have a continuing responsibility to procure the critical goods and services our forces will need in the coming years, we will not have ever- increasing budgets to pay for them. We must do more without more. Since June, the senior leadership of the acquisition community—the Component Acquisition Executives, senior logisticians and systems command leaders, Office of the Secretary of Defense officials, program executive officers, and program managers—have met regularly with Dr. Ashton B. Carter, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, to inform and craft the guidance for realizing greater efficiency. The Army has been fully engaged in the entire process. We agree that a capable, qualified, and appropriately sized acquisition workforce will be the key to its success.
* Title Change: Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition was redesignated as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics,
and Technology effective Feb. 16, 1999.
I recall reading testimony by Norman R. Augustine, a former Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition, Under Secretary of the Army, and defense industry leader, to the House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee earlier this year on the Defense Depart- ment’s acquisition challenges. He
stated, “The bottom line for the acquisition enterprise is to recognize and reconstitute a professional acquisition workforce working side-by-side with its contractor sup- port—and, most importantly, its operational counterparts.”
Dr. Malcolm Ross O’Neill Army Acquisition Executive
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