ARMY AL&T
TPI RESOURCES
The DPE team provides transportability engineering expertise to program offices and materiel developers to aid in developing systems that meet their transportability and deployability requirements. SDDCTEA maintains a series of modal instructions for lift and tiedown of TPIs. These modal instructions are a field reference used at home stations, railheads and ports to help make deployments successful. They are available on our website at https://
www.sddc.army.mil/sites/TEA/Functions/Deployability/TransportabilityEngineering/Pages/default.aspx.
meet the transportability requirements for each design is now conducted whether an MTA rapid prototyping or rapid fielding is used, as depicted in Figure 3.
If the testing conducted before the outcome determination is successful, covers all the validation required and is done on a system that is production representative, a full transportability approval could be achieved and issued by SDDCTEA. If all the transportability testing is not successful, does not cover all the requirements or the system design is still not final, SDDCTEA will issue a transportability statement for the outcome determination that will clearly communicate any transportability issues that need to be resolved in the final design before entering production.
CONCLUSION Te goal of the revised guidance in AR 70-47 is to decrease the chances of requiring design changes later in production. In the case of the Army bulldozer, if the failed pull test results were observed before outcome determination, SDDCTEA would generate a transportability statement that identified that as a serious issue. Te program office would have this information and consider it before selecting a vendor design to continue into production after outcome determination. If that design was selected because it performed best overall, the program manager and the vendor would know before going into production that the design needs to change and might slow down or halt production until that issue is resolved. Alternatively, outcome determination could result in selecting a bulldozer that did not have problems with the tiedown provisions and avoid any redesign for trans- portability issues.
While it is necessary to invoke adaptive acquisition strategies like MTA to stay ahead of our adversaries, it does little good to develop a new military vehicle or weapon system quickly that cannot be transported and deployed as required. Incorporating design for transportability earlier into the process is critical for
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MTA programs to be successful for systems classified as TPIs. Changes to AR 70-47 help mitigate risks and ensure that systems are capable of rapid deployment and strategic mobility.
For more information about SDDCTEA services, email
usarmy.scott.sddc.mbx.tea-dpe@
mail.mil.
WENDY LONG is a transportability engineer with the SDDCTEA at Scott Air Force Base,
Illinois. Her prior
roles
include materials testing at the Army Engineering Research and Development Center and heavy civil construction management for the 375th Civil Engineer Squadron. She holds an M.S.
in civil engineering from Mississippi State University
and a B.S. in civil engineering from Iowa State University. MICHAEL BARTOSIAK
is the chief of Deployability
Engineering with the SDDCTEA at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. He has over 26 years of transportability engineering experience between SDDCTEA and his engineering role for the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center in McAlester, Oklahoma. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida.
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