ARMY AL&T
“Executing mission command from home station is a new capability that the Army is delivering for a more powerful and reli- able capability than those of any opposing force to date. Te 82nd is part of the Global Response Force, which means that it must have a battalion ready at all times to deploy anywhere in the world within 18 hours,” she explained. “Te capability that we were able to give them directly supports that mission, and it was the first time I had been part of providing a program that directly supported readiness and our country’s safety.”
Her career has also given her the oppor- tunity to mentor and advise junior acquisition professionals. “My advice is to take individual responsibility to develop your technical and acquisition skills in different areas of expertise. You will need a variety of skills to get after the solutions to sustain our networks and our business systems to support Soldiers wherever they operate,” she said.
ON COMMON GROUND
Freeland confers with Andi Fehl, left, Home Station Mission Command Center project team assist, and Mark Reed, an audiovisual expert. Her biggest challenge as a product officer is making sure the different organizations from different backgrounds, including the product office team, work toward a common goal using a common language and with a shared sense of urgency. (Photo by Catherine DeRan, U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center)
processes. As a result, you’re also starting to see new processes for addressing that difference.”
Freeland served as product officer for the Product Office for Command Centers during the late 2018 installation of the mission command information infra- structure at the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the first headquarters in the Army at that level to receive the new system. Te 82nd Airborne received a command center that will enable it to
conduct expeditionary, uninterrupted mission command during all opera- tional phases.
Freeland led a team that included soft- ware and network engineers, program managers, logisticians, IT specialists and cybersecurity experts from I3MP, the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command, Tobyhanna Army Depot and industry integrators. She called the proj- ect—her first as a product officer—one of the most important of her career.
“Te Army places the right people in the right places at the right time to execute its mission. Tose missions create opportuni- ties for professional and personal growth. If you’re given an opportunity to take on a developmental assignment to increase your breadth of experience, embrace it and you will be better for it.”
It’s also important to know what you don’t know, she added. “What I’ve learned over the past 20 years is that you do not need to know everything there is to know about an acquisition position at the start. What you need to know is how to access and learn the information you need to do the job at hand. No two acquisition programs are the same, so no two sets of experiences will be the same.”
—SUSAN L. FOLLETT
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