SEPARATION FROM SERVICE
CROSS-CUEING CAPABILITIES
The EMARSS’s unique capabilities provide rapid prompting (or cross-cueing) of multiple on-board sensors to enable timely target confirmation and positive identification of mobile, fleeting targets in direct support of brigade combat team operations. (Photo courtesy of PEO IEW&S)
“If no one within the military can use an asset anymore, we will demilitarize it,” Fleetwood said. “Tat way, it can be sold to the public. We try to look at other agencies first that may want our capabilities before we get to the de-mil portion of divestment.”
Tere is a lot of interest among external agencies and industry for acquiring divested capabilities from PEO IEW&S, Fleetwood said, and sometimes other program offices will reach out on their own to see if they can use a divested product.
“Tey may want our capabilities before we sell,” he said. “Some program offices will reach out to individuals to see if they want a product. It depends on the system.”
Fleetwood said that his biggest goal with divestitures is to make sure an office is not “wasting something that could actually be used again by another agency.”
CONCLUSION For Fleetwood, the bottom line with divestiture is that there are multiple layers to the process.
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It’s a full-time job to deal in divestments, Fleetwood emphasized, and many commands will have a specialized team specifically dedicated to the process to be as efficient and effective as possible.
Fleetwood believes in not wasting money, especially taxpayer dollars. He said if someone else can further develop a capabil- ity or utilize a capability in a new way, especially if the unit it belongs to originally doesn’t need it any longer, it is worth saving the government funding and pass the system along.
“Divestment does not mean ‘destroyed,’ ” he said. “Divestment means [we have no use for] a system or product, but someone else could reutilize that capability.”
For more information, contact Darrell Fleetwood at
darrell.j.fleetwood.civ@
army.mil.
MEGAN CLARK is a public affairs specialist contractor for PEO IEW&S. She has a B.S. in English composition from Towson University.
Army AL&T Magazine
Spring 2025
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