Tese munitions will be more advanced and smaller, enabling aircraft to carry more munitions without adding weight or sacri- ficing firepower.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COHESION Te Army Futures Command’s cross-functional teams have repre- sentatives from different functions and communities of expertise across the Army, including members of the S&T, materiel, acqui- sition, test, cost and estimate, contracting, analysis, capability and requirements, funding, intelligence and public affairs commu- nities. Te Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team, located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, has two RDECOM employees dedicated to supporting the LRPF modernization priority, with reachback to two dozen RDECOM employees for support at any time. Te LRPF Cross-Functional Team leveraged the Aviation and Missile Center’s S&T road map for missile investment as the basis for its deep strike missiles future plan.
As long-range precision fires is an integrated system of systems that supports and enables capabilities for aviation, missile defense, armaments and tank, automotive and Soldier systems, the LRPF Cross-Functional team works closely with other cross-functional teams through working groups. Tese working groups analyze modernization dependencies to ensure that capabilities and tech- nologies align with portfolio investments.
Te driving mission of the LRPF Cross-Functional Team is to enable technologies for cannons, munitions, rockets and missiles with enhanced precision and lethality effects at extended ranges in degraded A2AD operational environments. Te team’s near- term goals are to develop cohesive modernization road maps to deliver technology for long-range precision fires and maintain Army S&T portfolio investments to support current and future overmatch capability gaps.
In looking to support the future of the Army, RDECOM is planning technology demonstrations with cannons, munitions, rockets and missiles with various ranges. Demonstrations began in May 2018 and are scheduled to continue over the next several
years as the technologies transition to programs of record, which are fully funded, or become directed requirements, which are expedited requirements to fill an urgent need.
CONCLUSION As RDECOM transitions into the new Army Futures Command, it will continue to support the modernization effort by working on projects with internal and external partners to sharpen the Army’s competitive advantage. Leveraging the Army’s modern- ization strategy to fail early and fail cheaply, the centers and labs promote continuous experimentation and prototyping that reduces risk, demonstrates technical maturity and evaluates tech- nical solutions to inform requirements for near- and far-term capabilities.
RDECOM uses the lessons learned from experimentation and prototyping to refine technology for capabilities that the warfighter will need to fight and win in multidomain operations. It has long shared those lessons learned with the Army Capa- bilities Integration Center and other partners. Te command is now deeply involved in helping the Army design the new Army Futures Command to maximize its core competencies while achieving the greatest possible synergy with its new partners in that command.
For more information, go to
http://www.rdecom.army.mil/ or contact RDECOM Public Affairs at 443-395-3922.
MAJ. GEN. CEDRIC T. WINS is the commanding general of RDECOM. Wins graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and was commissioned in the Field Artillery in July 1985. His mili- tary education includes Field Artillery Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College, where he earned an M.S. in national secu- rity and strategic studies. Wins also holds an M.S. in management from the Florida Institute of Technology.
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