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policies encourage closer and quicker collaboration across the enterprise of stakeholder communities, minimizing bureaucratic barriers through two variants:
• MTA for “Rapid Prototyping” is designed to quickly prototype and evaluate emergent technologies for warfighting needs.
• MTA for “Rapid Fielding” is designed to quickly deliver transformative but mature technologies to Soldiers in the field.
MTA authorities significantly reduce the reporting requirements inherent in traditional MCA frameworks, empowering materiel developers to focus on responsive development, user feedback and technological refinement. By reducing documentation and over- sight burdens, the MTA allows program offices to operate with greater agility and responsiveness. However, this reduction in mandated reporting does not absolve materiel developers of the need to deliver capabilities with responsible speed and responsi- ble risk—thinking through enduring needs as well.
ENTER RESPONSIBLE SPEED Responsible speed necessitates a balanced approach to acqui- sition, combining the agility of streamlined processes with deliberate and thorough decision-making. While MTA reduces the documentation and milestone requirements of MCA, materiel developers must still ensure deliberate cross-functional and expert reviews. Tese reviews address the core attributes of a capability including safety, suitability, effectivity and supportability to facil- itate potential transition into a long-term acquisition framework. Responsible speed emphasizes that rapid development must not come at the expense of strategic foresight or comprehensive capa- bility evaluations. Materiel developers, as vanguards of Soldier overmatch, must focus on accountability, agile development and creating a foundation for transition.
In three categories, responsible speed may be loosely charac- terized as:
• Accountability—Balancing the need for speed with the obligation to deliver safe, suitable, effective and support- able systems that meet operational demands. Meaning, program managers are responsible for assessing and accepting prudent risk to prototype and field a safe, suit- able, effective and supportable capability in the most expeditious manner.
• Agile Development—Rapidly incorporating feedback from users and requirements from stakeholders to refine
solutions.MTA programs must be structured and aligned to the thinking and execution approaches required to build to an initial set of requirements and then be recep- tive to feedback aimed to aid in development.
• Foundations for Transition—Posturing MTA programs to smoothly transition into enduring Programs of Record. Essentially, program managers and MTA stakeholders must be committed to not only moving fast but also thinking through the life cycle requirements, sustainment strategies and operational compatibility.
Te fundamental challenge of an MTA is to execute with respon- sible speed and responsible risk, which means balancing delivering transformative capability, at the speed of relevance, while main- taining standards—despite the ability to tailor documentation. Enter one of the Army’s newest MTAs for Rapid Prototyping (MTA-RP), the LRPM.
THE LRPM VARIANT Te LRPM is the lethal, medium-range variant of the Army’s Launched Effects (LE) family of systems—a material solution to support multidomain operations at all echelons in a peer- threat environment. Te LE uncrewed aircraft family of systems will deliver doctrinally transformative capability to the Soldier
MTA PAVING THE WAY The MTA pathway enables quick prototyping and delivers transformative technologies to Soldiers in the field. (Graphic by USAASC)
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