SOFTWARE ACQUISITION
BALANCING ACT
Along with industry, the Army is taking a once-in-a- generation opportunity to imagine what vertical lif t means for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraf t.
by Col. David Phillips M
odernizing Army aviation is of monumental importance to the nation’s defense, and there is a great opportunity for the Army and industry to get it right. With the right balance of empowered professionals, innovative acquisition approaches and a set of optimized requirements, the Army has a
once-in-a-generation opportunity to design, develop and deliver Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft that are able to operate at far greater speeds and ranges to support our Soldiers in 2030 and beyond.
But the Army cannot build a 21st century aircraft using the same tools and processes as it did with the venerable Black Hawk in the 1970s. Today, the stakes are high for the Army’s modernization strategy. National security, the industrial base and precious resources are at stake. And, more importantly, future warfighters will need these modernized Army aviation capabilities to win on future battlefields. One of these capabilities is the Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft; the next generation of affordable vertical lift aircraft with the primary mission of long range air assaults and aeromedical evacuation. Historically, the Army has typically had linear acquisition processes with industry during the requirements and design process. Working alongside the Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team and with teams across the aviation enterprise, the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft Project Office—the early adopters of DOD’s adaptive acquisition framework—are using new acquisition author- ities and procedures to revamp a decades-old Army process to become leaner, faster and ultimately deliver advanced capabilities to Soldiers. Along with industry’s best and brightest, the Army is re-imagining what Future Long Range Assault Aircraft can be.
INVERTING THE DEFENSE PROCUREMENT PARADIGM Te adaptive acquisition framework was described as “the most transformational acquisition policy change we’ve seen in decades,” by Ellen Lord, the former undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment. Lord said that the framework allows for “innovative acquisition
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