DRIVING CREATIVE DESTRUCTION


CREATIVE DESTRUCTION IN ACTION Te 155 mm Cannon-Delivered Area Effects Munition (C-DAEM) program provides a good example of applying creative destruc- tion to stay ahead of the threat. (See "Fortune Favors the Bold" on Page 14.)


We know by now that the “gale of creative destruction”— as described in the originally proposed creative destruction methodology—takes place regardless of our understanding. It has a tendency to come unannounced, just as COVID-19 did. It mutates and continuously revolutionizes the organizational structure from within. It incessantly destroys the old variant and creates something new—good and bad—until it is stopped and effectively controlled. Our leaders have learned from the past that emulating the status quo frequently ends in disaster. Instead, they face the unexpected change and urgent require- ments with thorough analysis, delivering next-level target-seeking and precision-guided technology. Tey reevaluate their assets by reviewing available resources, skills, designs and contract vehi- cles. Ten, they capitalize on the knowledge and experience that have developed around these assets.


Teams of intellectually minded individuals supporting the Project Manager for Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS), including Pete DeMasi, Jim Sarruda and Rob Casale, were put in charge of recombining and counterbalancing creative destruction processes and existing structures, such as contract vehicles and agreements, processes and diffusing necessary knowledge to initiate inno- vative approaches, which resulted in C-DAEM. Tis program, initiated in 2016 to replace the Army’s aging stockpile of cannon- fired cluster munitions, consists of two increments. Increment 1, or C-DAEM Armor, is focused on defeating at extended ranges, medium- or heavy-armor targets that are relocated or moving, whereas Increment 2, C-DAEM Dual-Purpose Improved Conven- tional Munition Replacement, is focused on defeating personnel and lightly armored targets. Focusing on the C-DAEM Armor program, PM CAS had two very different materiel solutions to


In large organizations like the Army, timely application of creative destruction requires a new way to work across traditional and organizational boundaries.


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ON BALANCE


Soldiers transfer 155 mm rounds from an M992 Carrier Ammunition Track to an M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer. Counterbalancing and recombining creative destruction processes and existing structures helped to create the C-DAEM. (Photo by Capt. Tobias Cukale, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division)


choose from: a technically mature and well-understood existing solution known as a sensor-fuzed munition, and a new combi- nation of existing technologies to create a hit-to-kill projectile solution. Specifically, the hit-to-kill solution involved integra- tion of GPS and inertial guidance with a terminal seeker and shaped-charge warhead, a new and unproven combination for cannon artillery.


In evaluating these very different materiel solutions, PM CAS worked with the user community, including the Long Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team and the Fires Center of Excellence Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate, to identify and prioritize the key metrics for selection. Tis team effort resulted in an objectives hierarchy, evaluating the schedule,


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