FROM THE ARMY
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER RAJ IYER, PH.D.
IMPERATIVE THE
A sof tware-intensive Army requires a massive reform of our institutional processes.
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ver the last decade, commercial industry has made radical shifts in how it manages the software life cycle from requirements through support fueled by digital trans- formation and new technologies, such as cloud computing and development paradigms like DevSecOps. In the consumer world, we saw the proliferation of
mobile applications for all kinds of new disruptive services like ride sharing (Uber, Lyft), food delivery (DoorDash, Uber Eats), car sharing (Turo), home rentals (Airbnb) and even over-the- air software updates to cars (Tesla). Each of these disruptions in the consumer world created innovative delivery models for services using data as a strategic asset to give these companies tremendous competitive advantage over their nondigital peers. Tese disruptors also changed the nature of their industry as a whole, and in many cases reinvented their own companies.
Te U.S. Army is on a similar path to achieve the objectives for the Army of 2030. We can draw clear analogies between digital transformation in the consumer world to the Army, which has also recognized that data is the new ammunition as we fight in new ways through our modernization efforts. Multidomain operations is how we will establish strategic deterrence against near-peer adversaries in great power competition and, if needed, fight and win decisively in a large scale combat operation. Tis is how the Army is transforming its “business” model—warfighting— while at the same time transforming our force structure and institutional processes to better align with how we will deliver multidomain effects in a fight.
Each of the Army’s modernization programs—long range precision fires, next generation combat vehicle, future vertical lift, Soldier lethality, synthetic training environment and the unified network have one thing in common. Tey are all software intensive systems, and unlike tradi- tional weapon systems platforms, it is the software enabled by artificial intelligence that powers the platform’s lethality and survivability. As such, the Army is moving into a high tech, software- intensive world, one that is not compatible with all of our institutional processes like requirements development, acquisition management, planning programming budgeting and execution (PPBE),
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