ARMY AL&T
SPEAK SOFTLY AND …
The U.S. Army Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center is using an other transaction agreement in the development of a prototype personal defense weapon. (Image courtesy of the authors.)
Even if the Army pays a small company to develop a breakthrough product but goes on to hire a big company to produce it in the necessary quantities, that’s still important business for that small company. And the taxpayer is reaping the benefit.
Technology Consortium, a large group of small, innovative companies, to develop that prototype personal defense weapon, which is lighter, more accurate, more lethal and quieter than existing weapons.
CONCLUSION Te need for speed is being driven by the exponential progression of technology and the rise of near-peer competitors. Russia, for example, has developed weapons that last longer, shoot farther and are more accurate than the Army’s standard weapons. It is critically important that all of the Army, through the establish- ment of cross-functional teams, use the middle-tier acquisition process.
Using the mid-tier acquisition authority with the other trans- action authority, PMs can rapidly reach out to traditional and nontraditional DOD vendors to close the gap with our adversar- ies. Working together through these new arrangements, we can quickly and more accurately meet the warfighter’s needs.
For more information, contact Dr. Donald Schlomer at Donald.
Schlomer@Socom.mil or 813-826-1353.
COL. JOEL D. BABBITT is the program executive officer for Special Operations Forces Warrior Systems within the U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. He previously served as the product manager for three product offices:
Wideband Enterprise Satellite Systems within the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Enterprise Information Systems; Warfighter Information Network – Tactical Increment 1 within the PEO for Command, Control and Communications – Tactical; and Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence for a unit under the U.S. Special Operations Command. He holds an M.S. in computer science from the Naval Postgraduate School and a B.S. in psychology from Brigham Young University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He is Level III certified in program management and Level II certified in engineering and in information technology. He holds the Project Management Professional certification and is a member of the Army Space Cadre and the Army Acquisition Corps.
DR. DONALD SCHLOMER, LT. COL., USA (RET.), is a govern- ment civilian acquisition program manager within the PEO for Special Operations Forces Warrior Systems. He holds a doctorate in business administration from Walden University, specializing in Acquisition Category III requirements generation and in project management; an MBA in finance from Clemson University; and a BBA in information systems from the University of Georgia. He is a graduate of the Quartermaster Officer Advanced Course, and is the 2017 Frank Dilly Award winner for best doctoral dissertation. Schlomer is a retired Signal officer who deployed to Iraq and Afghan- istan in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, respectively. He is Level II certified in program management.
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