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HQDA. Tis is a collaborative decision to ensure alignment across stakeholders.”
Additionally, Fleetwood continued, before a system is divested, there must be confirmation that the capability has a viable alter- native to ensure no gaps in mission needs.
THE IEW&S DIVESTMENT APPROACH In some cases, HQDA may decide to divest a system based on its strategic planning and assessments of duplicate or redundant capabilities within the field. Tese decisions are outside the scope of program offices and reflect broader Army priorities. However, when PEO IEW&S offers a system for divestment, we ensure thorough checks are performed to verify that:
• Te system is no longer actively supporting operations.
• Te Life Cycle Cost code properly reflects the system’s status as obsolete or unsupported.
• Army Futures Command’s Capability Optimization and Reallocation Analysis data ensures the Line Item Number of newer capabilities are reflected in the capabil- ity development document or the capability production document.
• Coordination is made with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology so that office can support this request for divestment once it enters the Divest Army Requirements Oversight Council.
• Systems reflect on the Master Divestiture List prior to executing divestment.
Our process ensures that divestment decisions are responsible, data-driven and aligned with modernization priorities. By follow- ing these steps, we contribute to the Army’s efforts to maintain operational effectiveness while transitioning to advanced capa- bilities.
DIVESTING EMARSS AND BEYOND Te Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveil- lance System (EMARSS) is one example of an IEW&S system currently in divestment within the PD SAI portfolio.
EMARSS’s flexibility, endurance, sensor capabilities, communica- tions architecture and processing, exploitation and dissemination abilities provide rapid prompting (or cross-cueing) of multiple on-board sensors. Tis enables timely target confirmation and positive identification of mobile, fleeting targets in direct support of brigade combat team operations, as well as providing general
support to higher echelon and coalition forces across the full range of military operations.
Te first of 25 Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveil- lance Systems (MARSS) came online in the early 2000s as QRCs supporting U.S. Southern Command. PD SAI built out these aircraft to support aerial ISR missions around the world. Te MARSS system changed several times over its 20 years of service, but its primary role in the Army remained the same.
While it was heavily utilized in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, mission needs changed over time and the Army’s pivot away from counter-insurgency operations brought on new priorities. Te Army began removing MARSS/EMARSS from the field in early 2023 and PD SAI introduced the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System to its portfolio.
According to Isaac, from the PD SAI perspective, the goal is to finish divesting EMARSS (which is the enhanced, final version of the MARSS system) in fiscal year 2025. Fleetwood said that from beginning to end, divestment can take anywhere from three to 18 months, sometimes longer.
“It’ll take around six weeks to physically remove the sensors and systems and then sell or destroy the aircraft,” Isaac said. “Some of the administrative processes are executed by other agencies and those processes may take longer.”
Once EMARSS is fully divested, it is removed from each mili- tary unit’s Modified Table of Organization and Equipment, the Line Item Number (which is unique to every system in the mili- tary) is categorized as obsolete and the National Stock Number is categorized as obsolete for all four variants.
Some assets of EMARSS will be provided to Project Lead Multidomain Sensing System within PD SAI and some will be provided to other Army organizations or services.
“Although EMARSS is being divested, the MARSS Program Office has been proactive in repurposing divestment assets inter- nally at PD SAI, as well as externally,” Isaac said. “Significant cost avoidance will be realized due to MARSS’ concerted effort to reutilize divested technology that was successfully proven and used to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.”
If a product or system is set to be sold to an outside organiza- tion, such as the public or industry, it must be “demilitarized.”
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