Our team also implemented a Small Business Innovation Research program- portfolio management structure to meet Army PEO-identified technology capa- bility gaps. Adoption of a transparent, accountability-driven process aligns the program with the highest technical quality and best emerging tech business partners, while lowering bureaucracy and improving transition potential. Te xTech SBIR pilot demonstrated a significant decrease in the time from topic curation to contract award.


Since 2017, the Office of the DASA(RT) has provided oversight of the Army's science and technology investments, and continues to work with Army Futures Command to ensure that our science and technology is fully aligned with the Army's modernization priorities. Tis includes ensuring that all cross-functional team requirements have been fully funded, and shifting more than $2 billion over the last three fiscal years and beyond to meet modernization priority needs, while also maintaining investments in supporting technologies with leading-edge potential, including artificial intelligence, ultra- secure communications, robotics, virtual reality, the Internet of Tings, energet- ics, directed energy and ultra-designed materials.


With the intent to provide system archi- tects with a single environment within the programs and program executive offices where they can develop architecture arti- facts with a common set of libraries, lexicons and style guides, the Office of the Chief Systems Engineer (OCSE) is piloting an Architecture Develop- ment Kit (ADK) effort. Te ADK allows pilot users to build architecture products inside a single model to support their own systems engineering efforts, explore other system owners’ architectures for better understanding of interoperability and the


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aggregation of all the architecture data within the model into system-of-systems architectures products. Te pilot effort is currently underway and will conclude in a few months with a full-scale version of ADK set for the end of the current fiscal year.


Recognizing that the use of modular open-systems approaches (MOSA) in Army systems is a warfighting impera- tive to enable incremental development and enhance competition, innovation and interoperability, we established policy directing its use in all categories of acqui- sition programs, as well as middle-tier efforts. To aid the PEOs and program managers (PMs) in implementing modular


approaches, OCSE developed a MOSA implementation guide to serve as a refer- ence for applying MOSA, and to clarify the process for formal assessments of its implementation.


To formalize and standardize indepen- dent assessment of technical risk, OCSE drafted policy for the conduct of inde- pendent technical risk assessments. Te policy establishes common expectations for performing and supporting such assess- ments, which OCSE began conducting for Acquisition Category I and special inter- est programs under the milestone-decision authority of the Army, and began develop- ment of a guide to provide clear direction and consistency in their conduct.


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