ADAPTING EXPERIMENTATION AND TESTING
EMBRACE INNOVATION
Secretary of the Army Christine E. Wormuth said the Army “must continue to embrace innovation and transformation or risk failing to address future threats,” during the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington in October 2023. (Photo by Christopher Kaufmann, U.S. Army Multimedia and Visual Information Division)
with version control and ensuring that all relevant players had access to the most up-to-date information.
CRAWL, WALK, RUN To maximize the use of digital engineering in the XM30 and other development efforts, the Army is taking a “crawl, walk, run” approach to the concept. With the “crawl” step now completed, the Army design team transitioned the XM30 CDD—the docu- ment that details the requirements that the vehicle must be able to achieve—into a PLM tool controlled by a single repository.
In the “walk” step, the Army project managers continue to maintain the CDD within the PLM and to map capabilities to performance specifications to support the request for proposal (RFP) process.
Finally, in the “run” step, which is now ongoing, the Army has generated the CDD within the PLM tool and continues to lever- age workflows to refine capabilities and ultimately manage the entire approval process.
“Te process allows everyone who is working on the XM30 proj- ect to be able to utilize the same digital data, to be able to take the design steps necessary to ensure we are delivering the best vehicle to our Soldiers,” said Lt. Col. J. Michael Eisenlohr, XM30 requirements lead for NGCV CFT. “Since we have engineers and designers in multiple places working on this program, when we make a change in the digital environment, everyone can see that in real time. Te efficiencies this creates in time and mate- rial costs are significant.”
TEAM TRAINING APPROACH To facilitate the use of digital engineering and maximize its impact on the combat vehicle development process, the NGCV CFT recently created and conducted a local, informal, week- long overview course on the topic for Soldiers and civilians. Te course began with developing a greater understanding of the Army’s current and future acquisition process and then went more in-depth regarding how to develop accurate requirements to enable model-based requirements. By the end, participants under- stood that model-based acquisition is built off an authoritative
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