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project officially kicks off, and the Rapid Prototyping Program can send funding directly and quickly to the contract agents on the project’s behalf.
Throughout the process, the project managers keep the program informed via monthly updates of upcoming milestones, tests or funding issues. Included in the monthly status report is information on how much of the funding has been obli- gated or disbursed to date, broken down by individual funding request. Also, the Rapid Prototyping Program Office hosts a midyear program review with each project to receive more detailed informa- tion. OSD, in turn, regularly reports to Congress on the projects’ progress.
PROTOTYPE PARTNERSHIP Te Army RCCTO selected its projects for proposals to the Rapid Prototyping Program carefully: Not only did it choose projects approved by its board of direc- tors, which is led by the secretary of the Army, but it also picked projects that were in direct response to operational needs statements. In other words, the capa- bilities for which RCCTO sought OSD support were true rapid prototypes and not standard research and development efforts. Supported by Army leadership, they would to go directly into the hands of Soldiers.
With OSD’s help, the Army is delivering on each of these efforts.
Its first project, electronic warfare capa- bilities for brigade and below, fulfilled the operational needs statement from U.S. Army Europe by providing inte- grated prototype equipment for electronic support and electronic attack. Teaming up with the Project Manager for Electronic Warfare and Cyber (PM EW&C) within the Program Executive Office for Intel- ligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S), RCCTO delivered the first phase of the capabilities in less than 12 months. After using the money awarded by the Rapid Prototyping Program for the second phase of the project, the acquisition team continues to partner with receiving units in Europe to infuse new technology as it becomes available, to quickly deliver incremental upgrades and to inform the long-term electronic warfare programs of record. Tis effort was recently selected by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment as a winner of the 2018 David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award. (See related article, “Te Making of a Pack- ard,” Page 10 in the Spring 2019 issue of Army AL&T.)
RCCTO also used the Rapid Proto- typing Program to advance its position, navigation and timing project. Designed
A fund RCCTO originally targeted as a short-term fix for its first two projects is becoming a solution to help the Army bring urgently needed prototypes to the field.
FUND FACTS
These programs have received funding from the Office of the Secretary of Defense Rapid Prototyping Program:
FY18
• The Perfect Storm electronic warfare capability (Army)
• Seeker technology for hypervelocity projec- tiles (Navy)
• Hypersonic tracking with multimission sensors (Air Force/Missile Defense Agency)
• Optical augmenta- tion (Army)
FY17
• Forward deployed elec- tronic warfare assets (Army)
• Position, navigation and timing (Army)
• Passive wide-area detection of small unmanned aerial systems (Navy)
• Ship-to-shore maneuver exploration and experimen- tation (Navy/Marine Corps)
• High-power microwave for air base air defense (Air Force)
• Open mission systems contribution to PlatformNxt (Air Force)
• TPY-2 Adjunct Sensor (Missile Defense Agency)
• Mission Rehearsal Trainer (Joint Staff/J-8)
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