FFS ENDLESS WARS MUST BE STOPPED
Here’s how the Army acquisition chief plans to equip soldiers for the next war
In the last year, the Army has embarked on several major modernization goals, creating cross-functional teams for major priorities and the new four-star Army Futures Command, the first such effort in decades.
Bruce Jette has served as the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, and during that time he helped shepherd the Army’s efforts to modernize following almost two decades of war.
On Thursday, Jette sat down with reporters at a Defense Writers Group meeting to discuss the Army’s ongoing modernization work.
Your office now coordinates with the recently created Army Futures Command and the cross-functional teams. What is a concrete example of how work in priority areas has changed with the addition of these new organizations?
I’ll give you a prime example. In the past, we looked at air defense as systems. The way you do air defense [is], okay, I’ve got this altitude, that altitude and that altitude. I need a system that works at those altitudes. Okay, you told me to develop and build a system that can deal with a threat at this altitude, that altitude or another altitude.
They were standalone concepts. The integration of them in a battlespace was purely done at the operator level. So, when I deliver a system under that methodology, I give you the Patriot battery. [It] stands alone, all you’ve got to do is put fuel in the thing, a couple of soldiers, and the thing works.
So, we’ve taken a look at the overall threat environment. The threat environment has become more complicated. It’s not just tactical ballistic missiles or jets or helicopters. Now we’ve got UAVs, we’ve got swarms, we’ve got cruise missiles, we’ve got rockets, artillery, mortar. I’ve got to find a way to integrate all of this.
So, using the cross-functional teams, the technical side has come back and said, “Listen, normally if you want to deal with some of the inbounds that are not missiles, things like rockets, artillery and mortars, the radars that come with the Patriot battery are not the same radars you need to see RAM. Oh, by the way, we were working on this thing for the air defense that’s called Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, delivering next December, systems that are deployable.”
So, I don’t deliver you a Patriot battery anymore — I deliver you missile systems; I deliver you radars; I deliver you a command-and-control architecture. They all integrate, and any of the C2 components can fire any of the sets, leverage any of the sensor systems to employ an effector against any of the threats. This has positioned us to put artificial intelligence in the backside to optimize against the threat that we see in the aggregate.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/01/10/heres-how-the-army-acquisition-chief-plans-to-equip-soldiers-for-the-next-war/
Psalm 46:9
9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields[a] with fire.
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