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ARMY ACQUISITION SUPPORT TO UKRAINE


TAKING COVER


Ukrainian soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 28th Mechanized Infantry Brigade take cover behind their BMP-2 armored vehicle while other soldiers rush ahead to breach a wire obstacle blocking their unit's advance during training at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, in 2017. (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Jones, 45th Infantry Brigade)


U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Army Contract- ing Command ‒ Redstone to collaborate and forge a way ahead. Te industry part- ners committed to maximize the use of on-hand vendor assets to deliver launch- ers and fire distribution centers. Te Army secured equipment from existing stocks and provided an ancillary enabling kit as government furnished equipment to round out the materiel package. Tis approach shaved two years off the timeline by elim- inating the production of new hardware. However, the challenge of quickly award- ing a procurement mechanism remained.


RAPID NEW REQUIREMENTS PACKAGE Delivering NASAMS and the asso- ciated services for Ukraine required an entirely new contract award. The


NASAMS integrated product team met daily to discuss and draft the contracts requirements package and all supporting documents. Te U.S. government reached an agreement on the statement of work with industry partners in a matter of days. Te combined government and industry team moved quickly within a contract- ing framework usually characterized as bureaucratic and glacial.


Te integrated product team accomplished tasks in a few days that usually require months of painstaking deliberations. In addition to a keen focus at the execu- tion level, stakeholder alignment among senior leaders proved essential to awarding a contract in a timely manner. Te entire chain of command from top to bottom within Army Contracting Command


- Redstone, PEO MS, the assistant secre- tary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, and the U.S. Army Secu- rity Assistance Command made this effort a top priority. All requirements were hand- carried and briefed in real time; nothing languished in a leader’s inbox. Once the requirement was received from PEO MS in July, the collective team worked relent- lessly to award a NASAMS contract on Aug. 26—less than a month from receipt of the requirement.


Tis accomplishment, however, is by no means the end of the effort. Although the Not-To-Exceed Undefinitized Contrac- tual Actions provided a mechanism to initiate industry support as quickly as possible, the team continues to coordi- nate all support requirements, refine the


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