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engineering for its efforts. PdM MaTIC is
Manager (PM) Navigation Capabilities and Special Programs.
THINKING SMALL Removing the balloon from Profiler allowed the Army to get rid of two of the three vehicles and one of the trailers. Most importantly, it allowed the Army to reassign four members of the six-person crew. Tose cost savings came mostly from the O&S cost avoidance associated with a two-thirds reduction in crew size.
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automated analysis of current weather conditions, as well as prediction of conditions likely to occur in the near future along the trajectory and at a point or area where the weapon munitions are expected to engage a target. Here, Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs)
After PdM MaTIC saw the benefits of removing the balloon operations, the next steps were for PdM MaTIC and the TRADOC capability manager to update requirements over time and harness advancements in technology.
Miniaturizing is one of the biggest chal- lenges the Army has faced for some time. Soldiers want
equipment that weighs
In the end, the balloon was set free, so to speak, as were most of the Soldiers, vehicles and supporting materials. Tose
“losses” have accounted for a significant operations and support (O&S) cost avoidance for the Army. In fact, in tran- sitioning directly from Block I to the Block III variant of Profiler, the Army has achieved a cost avoidance of $71 mil- lion since FY10 by not having to develop and field Block II. Te Army is projected to save $32 million per year beginning in FY13.
In the original fielding strategy, Profiler was slated to move to a Block II variant, which would have provided the capa- bility within a separate shelter that still
required the assignment of two Soldiers. Te PdM MaTIC office determined that it would be a waste of time and money to place the system in a shelter, as emerging technology indicated that the applica- tion could fit easily onto a laptop that, in turn, could fit easily inside the tactical operations center (TOC). Tis new strat- egy eliminated the requirement for the planned Block II system and accelerated the movement to Block III.
Te balloon removal was deemed so suc- cessful that the Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sen- sors
(PEO IEW&S) received a Value
Engineering Achievement Award in 2010 from the director of defense research and
less, is smaller and operates closely with the smart technology to which they are accustomed. Trying to meet that demand while also adhering to stringent acqui- sition requirements can be a daunting challenge for the Army, TRADOC and the materiel developer. However, when that community works together, operating within the acquisition process is a manage- able undertaking.
Te Profiler capability continues to evolve with the fielding of the Block III version, which completely removed the need for vehicles and dedicated manning. Te Profiler Block III is basically a software application hosted on a laptop computer directly connected to the TOC local area network (LAN), with the ability to autonomously provide meteorologi- cal data messages to the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) upon request.
ASC.ARMY.MIL 147 assigned to PEO IEW&S’ Project
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