ARMY AL&T
SOLUTION EVOLUTION
USAMRDC’s technology landscape-mapping work- shops seek to find the right medicines and devices with input from an integrated stakeholder team.
by Ramin A. Khalili I
f anybody knows how it all fits together, it’s Dr. Lawrence Lightner. As a retired, 23-year veteran of the Army and current project manager at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA), Lightner knows almost everything under the sun about current initiatives, previous product efforts and, not least of all,
the necessary U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) process that occasionally accom- panies the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s (USAMRDC) acquisition process.
“We have learned how the process works and how to adapt to it,” said Lightner, whose offi- cial title is project manager for warfighter protection and acute care.
And yet times are changing. While the organization-wide desire to both identify and develop solutions in warfighter care as fast as possible remains constant, the acquisition process for developing those technologies is now evolving, too, for the sake of increased efficiency. For Lightner and his team, a group that has ushered a wide variety of products through the acquisition process over the past two-plus decades, it’s a sign that continued success is just around the corner.
TLM: EVOLUTION OF A SOLUTION At USAMRDC headquarters at Fort Detrick, Maryland, Dr. Mark Dertzbaugh, acting deputy principal assistant for research and technology, marks up the whiteboard in his first-floor office like a football coach drawing up plays during practice, charting a poten- tial product’s timeline with both purpose and ease. For him, this is ground zero—the place where solutions are born.
“Te idea is to develop a common vision among all key stakeholders,” he said, “a vision where we on the science and technology [S&T] side can work in parallel in some places with our acquisition program managers [PMs] to help compress the timeline to product fielding.”
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