FIRST DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TRAINING


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rofessionals from across the Army Acquisition Workforce attended the first offering of a digital transformation training


course at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in Pittsburgh Sept. 19-23. Digital transformation is a critical focus area for the U.S. Army, the Army’s senior acquisition leaders and the Army Acquisi- tion Workforce.


Te course, called the Army Digital Data Leader’s Course, is the first of a series of offerings planned over the next year specifically targeted to Army acquisi- tion professionals. Te Army Director of Acquisition Career Management (DACM) Office, in coordination with the Army Futures Command’s (AFC) Army Artifi- cial Intelligence Center (AI2C), sponsored the training.


Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logis- tics and technology (ASA(ALT)), said that “2023 is the year of digital transforma- tion for the Army,” on Oct. 11 during a forum at the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Expo- sition in Washington. “We must simplify and accelerate getting the necessary data to commanders to enable their decision- making.” Bang said that simplifying and flattening the Army’s data architecture will result in more effective and efficient data-driven decisions. Tis course will help workforce professionals meet that intent.


TO MEET AN URGENT NEED As the Army moves out to implement its Army Modernization Strategy and to support the Army Digital Transformation Strategy, training for current and future Army acquisition leaders will equip those leaders with the knowledge and tools that are essential to the 21st century Army. “Senior Army leadership is committed


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EQUIPPED FOR THE FUTURE


In supporting the Army’s Digital Transformation Strategy, training for current and future Army acquisition leaders will equip them with the knowledge and tools that are essential to the 21st century Army. (Photo by Getty Images)


to this strategy,” said Melvin Johnson, Ph.D., chief of the Mission Equipment Division, Systems Readiness Directorate at the Combat Capabilities Development Command’s (DEVCOM) Aviation and Missile Center. “Tis course was designed to provide key leadership with a working knowledge of the current state of indus- try’s state-of-the-art data concepts and best practice examples, providing insight into the inherent value locked in data, and the power of unlocking that value,” he said.


Also attending the training were acqui- sition professionals from ASA(ALT), the program executive offices and DEVCOM.


Allen Waldran, associate director of the Prototype Integration Facility at the DEVCOM Aviation and Missile Center’s


Software, Simulation, Systems Engineer- ing and Integration Directorate, said the course helped him understand how that data is stored, accessed and used. “Data has become so ingrained in what we do each and every day, that we often take it for granted. Tis training reinvigorates the subject and highlights how far the science has come and describes in great detail how far, and how quickly, it will advance in the future.”


Waldran is currently in a leadership role that involves a lot of data and data analytics-type activity. But he said that the course expanded his awareness of the vast environment around data. “Te amount of data collected and stored in the most mundane activities is almost unimaginable; this course helped me


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