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Explore obstacles in C4ISR/IT transitions, recommend systemic changes, and emphasize community engagement for successful technology deployments. Recommendations include non-traditional acquisition approaches and seeking operational value incentives.
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Transition Working Group Gerald Douglas
Transition Working Group Team Members • Gerald Douglas, Lockheed Martin (Chairman) • Chris Behre, Old Dominion University • Randy Brooks, General Dynamics • Frank Creaser, UNISYS • Tom Gandy, General Dynamics • Greg Larsen, IDA • Terry Mayfield, IDA • Kathy McDonald, DARPA • Jane Powers, Lockheed Martin • Gary Wheatley, Evidence Based Research, Inc.
Tasking • Review the obstacles to the rapid transition of successful experiments from any source • obstacles are fundamentally systemic • Recommend changes Tinkering at the margins will NOT take us where we need to go
Environment • C4ISR Capabilities are based on IT technologies • Speed of technology advances far exceeds the ability of the process to exploit it • Infrastructures are integral to warfighting and C4ISR/IT in particular, but….
Problem(s) • Process Bound in all aspects of the acquisition (rqmts, acq, funds, etc.) • Process never designed for C4ISR/IT acquisitions • No Central Authority for Transitions • Desired operational outcome’s should drive technology insertions • C4ISR trade-space must be more than technology alone
Recommendations • C3I/CIO use existing authority to: • Establish that all C4ISR/IT-Based acquisitions shall follow a non-traditional acquisition approach permitted by 5000 Rewrite • Define model/process/controls (now until symp) • Vet it at Symposium/Workshop • Initiate it immediately afterward with a selected C4ISR system and Experiment
Recommendations (2 of 2) • Identify a neutral organization and operations to receive, transition, and deploy through experimentation both successful and promising technologies • Require full community engagement (present AND accountable) • Establish operational and business led transitions • Establish/Fence funds (in/out) • Vet to interoperability criteria and drive “Standards” • Provide Operational Value Incentives for the adopting component through re-allocation/re-direction of funds.
TRANSITION GROUP • DoD CIO DOES NOT HAVE ACQUISITION AUTHORITY • A NON-TRADITIONAL PROCUREMENT CAN BE ENCOURAGED BUT IMPLEMNTATION IS NOT THE CIO’S RESPONSIBILITY • TESTING IS THE LONG POLE IN THE TENT • CIO COULD ENGAGE (WITH DOT&E) IN SOME REVISIONS OF TEST REQUIREMENTS • THE ACTD PROCESS APPEARS TO BE FERTILE GROUND FOR STEAMLINING THE PROCUREMENT OF “GOLD NUGGETS.” • LIFE CYCLE SUPPORTMUST BE DEALT WITH. • NEED TO FIND A WAY TO MOVE GOLD NUGGETS INTO ACQUISITION WITHOUT BEING TIED TO THE POM CYCLE REV 1 2-29-00