INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION


FIGURE 2


Office of the Secretary of Defense


BE DONE? CAN IT


Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering


FCT


FTAS ESEP


DASA(DE&C) DASA(R&T)


FMS ITAR ODC


KEY


ASA(ALT): Assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logis- tics and technology


CCDC: U.S. Army Combat Capabili- ties Development Command


DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency


DASA: Deputy assistant secretary of the Army


DE&C: Defense exports and cooperation


DTRA: Defense Threat Reduc- tion Agency


ESEP: Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program


FCT: Foreign comparative test


FMS: Foreign military sales FTAS: Foreign technology assess- ment support


ITAR: International traffic in arms regulations


ITCs: International technol- ogy centers


JPEO: Joint program execu- tive office


LCMCs: Life cycle management commands


MDA: Missile Defense Agency ODC: Office of Defense Cooperation ONS: Operational needs statement PEO: Program executive office R&T: Research and technology


WHO DOES WHAT?


In the far-reaching landscape of defense acquisition, this is where the U.S. Army’s ITCs fit. With this many players contributing to its modernization initiatives, the Army is looking for a better database with which the ITCs can track all of those efforts.


NATO MDA DTRA


DEVELOP CCDC


Develop and integrate technology for Soldiers.


1 + 7 R&D centers ~13,000 scientists and engineers


Technology Office


CCDC Forward Elements


Atlantic Pacific Americas


ITCs for Europe ITCs for Americas


ITCs for Pacific Global


ASA(ALT) BUILD


Build and field systems for Soldiers. 12 PEOs


Rapid Equipping Force under PEO Soldier


international offices


PEO


Sustainment and LCMCs


SUSTAIN


Maintain fielded systems.


International mission


YES


U.S. Army Futures Command


U.S. Army Headquarters


U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command


U.S. Army Forces Command


U.S. Army Materiel Command


In late 2018, ITCs in Europe laid the groundwork for a collabor- ative workshop on hypersonic materials. A month into this effort, the ITCs discovered that the U.S. Air Force was about to sign a bilateral collaborative agreement on hypersonic materials with a foreign partner. A month after that, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Technical Center was named as the lead agency in hypersonic research. Tese unintentionally convoluted initiatives would benefit from an aggregated and ongoing effort to maintain a database at the AFC or CCDC level, including the network of researchers, supporting agencies, world-leading indus- try partners and testing facilities.


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A technology database isn’t exclusively for a high-profile tech- nology like hypersonics, however; AFC would also benefit from aggregating market research on engines for main battle tanks, or helicopter transmissions, or unmanned ground systems. Trough painful experience, ITCs have learned that the Army has a Network Cross-Functional Team with a chief of market research, who competes with market researchers at the Program Execu- tive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, who get international trade show input from DASA(DE&C), which competes with work being done or funded by CCDC’s C5ISR Center.


Army AL&T Magazine Winter 2020


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