COVERING THE LANDSCAPE
In a recent joint forcible entry training mission out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the Army’s Global Response Force successfully used En-route Mission Command (EMC) to enable real-time joint intelligence, communications and collaboration as the U.S. troops flew across the country to battle simulated enemy forces. EMC is an example of a capability with far-reaching potential that calls for the acquisition workforce to sync up early and often with the other major stakeholders. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of 82nd Airborne Division)
that training then impacts the personnel community and the finance community, etc.,” he said.
“We kind of understand the complexity and the level of effort it’s going to take to sustain that [system] at a high level of readiness for the user, because of what the future war-fight environment is going to look like. Where we tend to start to break down— and I’m not going to blame the requirement system because that would be too simplistic—is that we don’t collaborate between the materiel developer and the combat developer sufficiently to understand the impacts of the design or the thing that we’re asking for.”
A good place to begin in balancing requirements, Jones said, are the 12 integrated product support elements. (See Figure 1.)
“You start asking the people developing these ideas, ‘How is that going to look in the sustained base? What is the level of training burden that we’re asking?’ Everybody is off doing their job, but it’s not synchronized because we didn’t spend enough [on what] I’ll just call systems engineering early on.”
Over the past 20 years, requirements have grown more realistic, and Army acquisition has absorbed gradually more responsibil- ity for long-term logistics, Dillard said. But a PM still has to balance a long product cycle with a relatively short time on the job, he noted. “It’s unforeseen how much the system is going to get used, it’s unforeseen what’s going to be the weak part. And so it’s a bit of a crystal-ball type problem,” Dillard said.
“We just have to make sure that the stuff that goes into that system view, which supports the operational view, meets the
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