HONORING INNOVATION
Te FY15 winners are:
• Group: Te SAM Junctional Tourniquet, developed at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. Team members include Dr. John F. Kragh Jr., Dr. Michael A. Dubick, Col. (Dr.) Lorne H. Blackbourne, Dr. James E. Johnson, Col. (Dr.) Lance E. Cordoni and Lance Hopman.
• Individual – military: Capt. Lawrence T. Collins for the MILES Laser Tag Utility app, developed at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• Individual – civilian: Robert DiLalla for the Ballistic Combat Shirt, developed at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC), Natick, Massachusetts.
Te innovation award revitalized the Army’s Greatest Invention Program to honor Greene, who served in several leadership posi- tions across the Army’s research, development and acquisition enterprise before he was killed in Afghanistan in August 2014 while serving as the deputy commanding general of the Com- bined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan.
Greene was a proponent of technologies that could give Soldiers the advantage in battle, notably when he was deputy com- manding general of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command and simultaneously senior commander of NSRDEC from May 2009 to May 2011.
WINNING CAPABILITIES Each of the award-winning projects for FY15 brought together experts, materials and processes to develop Army-centric appli- cations that have proven successful in the commercial world.
MILES Laser Tag Utility app: Individual – military category winner Capt. Lawrence T. Collins, a project engineer who has been with the Army Corps of Engineers’ New Orleans District since May 2015, said his formula for innovation included self- taught skills in programming smartphone apps and the need to fulfill a training capability gap. He recognized the gap dur- ing his time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.
Collins created the app to give Soldiers who were training with MILES—the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement
MILES, AHEAD
The MILES Laser Tag Utility app, shown in this screen shot, is available from the Google Play store. Capt. Lawrence T. Collins developed it to provide a capability he found missing during exercises at the National Training Center. (U.S. Army photo)
System—the ability to test, configure and troubleshoot their equipment. Te MILES Laser Tag Utility app can be down- loaded from the Google Play store and, using the infrared port on certain Android-based smartphones, requires no additional hardware or wireless signal connection.
In a statement commending Collins’ creation, Maj. Gen. Michael C. Wehr, commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division, said, “Having been a platoon leader in the opposing force at the National Train- ing Center for 28 months, I and other leaders understand the utility of this capability.” Wehr said teams at combat training centers using the MILES Laser Tag Utility app can “utilize downtime more effectively.”
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Army AL&T Magazine
October-December 2016
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