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vehicle excursion. Most importantly, the Soldier feedback received at vehicle excursions is the only Soldier touch point for ground platforms at the system-of-systems level before nonrecurring engineering. Tis final “gut check” ensures that information dimension nonrecurring engi- neering funding is improving access to relevant real-time information and reducing cognitive load, truly making Soldiers more lethal on the battlefield.
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Soldiers with 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division wear upgraded IVAS goggles while sitting inside a Stryker armored vehicle preparing for a movement-to-contact urban raid exercise in August 2022 on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
CONCLUSION Te pace of modernization and rearmament is accelerating across the globe. System-of-systems integration, standardization and mature prototype excursions are critical enablers to accelerate our own modernization. Te lessons learned from VE3 will improve modernization of information dimension systems as the Army moves toward Army 2030. Te tactical benefits of new systems need to outweigh the overall cost of using them in terms of added Soldier load, reliability, ease of use, training time, access to train- ing and sustainability. Future vehicle excursions will continue to bring this type of wisdom into the Army acquisition process.
computers and other new technology. Led by PEO GCS and co-developed by all the PEOs represented at VE3, SAVE will enable more rapid modernization, because new SAVE-compliant systems will already be compati- ble with SAVE-compliant vehicles.
• Te final key effort mitigating integration risks are the vehicle excursions. An important distinction and unique value of vehicle excursions is the focus on mature technol- ogies. While Project Convergence and other technology demonstration events have proven valuable at demonstrat- ing what is in the art of the possible, vehicle excursions operate in a post-Project Convergence environment with mature technology—answering the question, “What are we really going to fund for modernization, how does it all connect, and does it work as advertised?” Installing multiple systems on platforms in an operational environ- ment quickly brings out the technical and programmatic “warts,” allowing much faster redesign more affordably, while providing a government-owned technical data package at the system-of-systems level at the end of the
LT. COL. NICHOLAS BREEN, product lead for PEO GCS Ground Combat Platform Integration, has an M.A. in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University, a B.A. in political science from the University of Nebraska, and will be attending the Eisenhower School for Senior Service College. He served as an assistant product manager at PEO Soldier, has served on the staff of the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, and is currently serving as the product lead for integration of C5ISR products onto ground combat platforms.
CAPT. MAX MEINERT is the outgoing company commander for Bravo Company, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. He has a B.S. in military history from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He commissioned as an infantry officer in 2013 and is in the process of transitioning to strategist. He has served in the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army Europe G-5, Special Operations Joint Task Force ‒ Afghanistan, 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team and the Stryker Warfighters’ Forum.
DAVID MORRIS, PH.D., is a network integration engineer and the lead for MITRE support to PEO GCS assisting with combat vehicle modernization. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in electromagnetics with a minor in communications, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
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