recommendations and observations based on lessons learned:
• Hand-pick the “A team.” Having wide latitude to carefully select and structure the red team based on needed skills, experience and dynamic perspectives, and across a wide range of organiza- tions, is critical to success.
• Develop effective ways to educate
warfighter end users and facilitators on assessment methodologies; identify and communicate purpose and payoff; insist on their active participation; and garner buy-in from them.
• Secure the direct and continuous involvement of the warfighter end user throughout the process. Tis is essential for fleshing out unrecognized assump- tions and aligning design choices with warfighter expectations.
• Adopt red (threat), white (analyst), blue (friendly), black (“unknown unknowns”) and green (influence base) perspectives, and integrate warfighters, analysts and developers into experi- ments. Tis creates an effective, robust atmosphere for discovery.
• Find the balance between “controlled” and “free play” experiments to build a collaborative environment for discovery and exploration of the system’s overall potential as a warfighter solution.
• Provide rapid feedback, conduct mul- tiple assessments and have warfighter after-action reviews to ensure the ade- quate capture of key information.
• Allow the team adequate execution and reporting time to minimize the prob- ability of team burnout that is often experienced by high-tempo action groups.
• Ensure access to warfighters and rapid, constructive feedback to create a con- tinuous learning environment and keep participants, such as developers, evaluators and warfighters, for events.
returning
• Develop structured assessment pro- cesses rooted in systems thinking and trade-space analytics that include exposing vulnerabilities at the systems’ seams.
• Provide opportunities for continuous professional development.
• Red-team the red team for continuous improvement.
CONCLUSION Te Systems ART initiative will continue to evolve as we work to infuse change in the culture to see “breaking” systems and shaking out vulnerabilities as necessary and good for the development process.
On the horizon, efforts will examine dominating mobility, electronic warfare and unmanned aerial threats as subjects of exploration and red-teaming. Our hope is that we can have a positive impact and help our forces maintain overmatch in a complex and uncertain future.
For more information, contact Niki Goerger at
niki.c.goerger@usace.army.mil.
DR. NIKI C. GOERGER is the direc- tor for business development at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Develop- ment Center (ERDC). She serves as program director for the Army S&T Sys- tems ART. Before her current assignment, she served as the ERDC liaison and act- ing director for the Innovation Enablers Science and Technology Portfolio in the ODASA(R&T). She earned her Ph.D. in
industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. She holds an M.S. in agricul- tural engineering with a minor in statistics, as well as a B.S. in biological engineering, from Mississippi State University.
DR. PATRICK J. DRISCOLL is a professor of operations research in the Department of Systems Engineering at
the United
States Military Academy at West Point, and line-of-effort lead for assessments and analytics for the Army S&T Systems ART. He earned his Ph.D. in operations research from Virginia Polytechnic University. He holds an M.S. in operations research and another in engineering economic systems from Stanford University, and a B.S. in mathematics from West Point.
MR. MICHAEL E. FERREIRA is an electronic warfare
subject-matter expert
in DOD. As program manager for the Army S&T Systems ART, he is respon- sible for establishing the multiperspective warfighter-threat-analyst-developer
for-
mat within the ART, and has successfully adopted this process to rapidly transition various technologies from the laboratory or shelf to the war fighter. He holds a B.S. in biological engineering from the University of Florida.
MR. JOHN P. KLOPFENSTEIN is a member of the U.S. Army Communications- Electronics
Research,
Development and Engineering Center’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Direc- torate. He serves as the deputy program manager for the Army S&T Systems ART and the line-of-effort lead for the techni- cal support and operational analysis live experiment venues. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering technology from DeVry University and is pursuing an M.S. in systems engineering management at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a mem- ber of the Army Acquisition Corps.
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