FROM THE AAE


FROM THE ARMY ACQUISITION EXECUTIVE THE HONORABLE HEIDI SHYU


PLANNING for the


T he United States Army is a


proud institution, renowned for its remembrance


and celebration of its solemn and


honorable heritage. This has provided a source of resilience and constancy for the  into its third century. However, I believe its greatest


source of strength derives


from the Army’s enduring focus on the future and change. It has led to multiple     in the evolution of individual Soldier       vision goggles.


This issue rightly focuses on the Army’s efforts to develop next-generation capabilities, so that future generations may be


assured of maintaining the


Army’s unparalleled success against any threat. Our look ahead in this magazine calls attention to the turning point the Army is working diligently to meet. The drawdown of two major overseas combat operations, combined with an evolving and more complex threat, calls


FUTURE


Pace of technological change will 


for agile, deployable, and technologically sophisticated capabilities. Coupled with strong budget pressures and renewed      these factors indicate that we are indeed in a new era.


As the Army’s acquisition community, the question we must ask in response to the topics discussed within these pages is, “What are we doing to prepare for the future?” Foremost, I believe now is the time to reassess long-term planning for Army equipment capabilities. Long-term   laid down under different assumptions regarding threats,


technological


 should be


fundamentally reexamined


              future horizon for Army programs of record, balancing affordability, threat gaps, and obsolescence as we demarcate and plan for the transition of enabling technologies through science technology research.


and


DELIBERATE CHOICES   - ened our focus on accelerated delivery of commercial products to support Sol- diers in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, we cannot afford to leave future Soldier         


One reason is the escalating pace of tech- nological change. This presents unique challenges in the development of defense capabilities,


as noted by Lourdes M.


Duvall in a June 6 research paper pub- lished by the Brookings Institution, “Be  in Agile Delivery of Defense Analytic Tools.” The “rate and unpredictability of advances


in technology,” to include


exponential growth in computing power,  - lems for multiyear acquisition efforts, especially in information technology.


The advance of technology may also com- 


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