KILLING A FLY WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER


Figure 3


are intended to measure and validate TECD concept capabilities and to mini- mize transition and deployment risks.


We’ve sequenced our technical approach through three phases. This three-year - bilities for the austere squad, separated       Phase III, focused on a fully networked company with


integrated capabilities


 echelons. (See Figure 3.) The intent is to demonstrate and deliver incremental capability for each of those years, not just 


CONCLUSION


The Army recognizes that the convergence of operational and intelligence information is critical for reducing tactical surprise and increasing overmatch at the small unit level. CERDEC’s Command, Power, and Integration Directorate, as the lead for mission command and actionable intelligence, plans to merge these as one effort in order to improve integration and efficiencies. This three-year, three-phase strategy will culminate in FY15 with a fully networked unit having integrated capabilities and data flow up and down the tactical echelons. (SOURCE: CERDEC)


leads and the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), seek- ing to leverage the commercial sector for emerging solutions. We have also cross- walked and validated our requirements     -  Capabilities and the Intelligence com- munity’s blueprint for the Army of the 21st century.


Additionally, the TECD team has com- pared technology development with the capabilities at the Network Integrated Evaluations and continues to do so, to avoid duplicating development efforts with industry and our sister PORs.


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The TECDs also have a great deal of Army leader support; all current TECD efforts have been approved by the Army Science and Technology Advisory Group. Additionally, the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-3/5/7, LTG John F. Campbell, and the former DCS, G-2, now-retired LTG Richard P. Zahner, endorsed the effort and its intended outcomes.


We plan to sustain a close cooperative effort with our stakeholders and execute periodic demonstration and experimen- tation events, which are an important aspect of this effort. These frequent dem- onstration and experimentation events


The real determination of success is always adoption of the capability by the operational user. The TECDs’ contin- ual planning and synchronization with TRADOC capability managers, program  TRADOC Centers of Excellence (COEs) will help to ensure that these solutions remain complementary and have an established path for transition to the Sol-      incorporate Soldier feedback before and after exercises, to ensure that the capa- bility is usable and provides value to the Soldier and small teams.


The S&T community is in the business of taking risks to discover what’s in the realm of the possible, to help inform Army decisions in the future and help to address gaps today. The TECD effort is intended to complement PORs, not to compete with them or simply support their existing development trajectory.


This can be done by working collabora- tively to establish collective capabilities that integrate across a multitude of WfFs.


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